Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e due sante (Madonna and Child with Two Saints) c.1493–1495 Oil on poplar wood, 86.5 × 63 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT” reads the signature placed bottom left in this half-length composition. Perugino‘s handling of…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien (Reclining Venus of Urbino, after Titian) 1822 Oil on canvas, 116 x 168 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere di Urbino 1538 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Giuditta e la sua ancella (Judith and Her Maidservant) c.1618–1619 Oil on canvas, 114 × 93.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Lucrezia Romana (Roman Lucretia) 1540 Oil on panel, 68 × 52 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna col Bambino, Santa Lucia e San Giovannino (The Madonna and Child with Saint Lucy and the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1587–1588 Oil on panel, 78.8 x 62.7 cm Private collection
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) L’Enfant au tablier rouge (Child in a Red Apron) 1886 Oil on canvas, 60 x 49.9 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Hilando (Weaving) 1936 Tempera and oil on canvas, 66 × 106.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Laboring at a backstrap loom in this painting is Luz Jiménez, a master weaver and Nahua, one of the largest Indigenous…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde tressant ses cheveux (Blonde Braiding Her Hair) 1886 Oil on canvas, 65.41 x 54.29 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas After an inspirational trip to Italy in the early 1880s where he admired Classical models, Pierre-Auguste Renoir renewed…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…