Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le bain turc (Turkish bath) 1862 Oil on canvas, 108 × 110 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition. Naked bathing women from the back, from the front, in profile, in three/quarter view, sitting, standing, dancing……
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Donna con mandolino (Woman with a Mandolin) 1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 93.7 × 75 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Tiepolo‘s work reflects the culmination of the baroque tradition in Venice. In this painting the artist celebrated the…
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Lucrezia (Lucretia) c.1539 Watercolor over black chalk, 29.8 x 20.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Lucrezia Romana (Roman Lucretia) 1540 Oil on panel, 68 × 52 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria della Virtù (Allegory of Virtue) c.1531 Tempera on canvas, 14.2 × 85.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Companion: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria del Vizio c.1531 Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539)
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Venere e Amore spiati da un satiro (Venus and Cupid Spied on by a Satyr) c.1524–1527 Oil on canvas, 188 × 125 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La Baigneuse (The Bather) 1846–1848 Oil on wood, 18.5 x 24.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere, Adone e Cupido (Venus, Adonis and Cupid) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Venus, the Roman goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid’s arrows,…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene) 1585–1600 Oil on panel, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to the Golden Legend, after the death of Christ his follower Mary Magdalene moved to the…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La folie des grandeurs (Megalomania) 1967 Bronze, 154.9 × 121.9 × 82.2 cm Menil Collection, Houston