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
Venere e Amore spiati da un satiro (c.1524-1527)
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La Baigneuse (1846-1848)
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
Venere, Adone e Cupido (c.1590)
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,…
L’estasi di Maria Maddalena (1585-1600)
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…
La folie des grandeurs (1967)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La folie des grandeurs (Megalomania) 1967 Bronze, 154.9 × 121.9 × 82.2 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Hélène Fourment (c.1636-1638)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment (“The Furry”) c.1636–1638 Oil on oak, 178.7 × 86.2 × 2.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The posture of Rubens‘ second wife Helena Fourment (1614-1674, married in 1630) is reminiscent of the type of the ancient…
Bacchus (1638-1640)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Bacchus 1638–1640 Oil on canvas, 191 x 161.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Bacchanalia was a favourite theme in Rubens‘s work, although Bacchus himself was rarely the subject of his paintings. He saw the subject as reflecting…
Hélène Fourment with two of her children (c.1636)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment with two of her children (Clara Johanna, born in 1632, and Frans, born in 1633) c.1636 Oil on panel, 115 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted around 1636, given the ages of the…
Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Reclining Figure (1935-1936)
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Reclining Figure 1935–1936 Elm wood, 48.26 x 93.34 x 44.45 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1924 Henry Moore began exploring the theme of the reclining figure, and he eventually began seeing parallels between the motif and…