Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia The subject of this painting was inspired by Lord Byron‘s dramatic poem of 1821 about the life of an…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Mermaid 1896 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 552.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Edvard Munch painted Mermaid during an extended stay in Paris in 1896–97, upon receiving a commission for a large-scale decorative work from Axel Heiberg, a…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Charité (Charity) 1842 Oil on canvas, 109.5 x 110.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: Seated woman breastfeeding a baby, another on her left arm, child clinging to her right shoulder, another standing behind…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La sortie du bain (After the Bath) 1846 Pastel on canvas, 89 × 116 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parau Parau (Whispered Words) 1892 Oil on canvas, 77.1 × 96.5 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Hope I (Hoffnung I) 1903 Oil on canvas, 189.2 x 67 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Study: Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Standing Pregnant Woman with a Man 1902–1903 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Eve 1507 Oil on panel, 209 x 80 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Like the painting of Adam, represented on a separate panel, Eve’s unstable posture, her rhythmical movements and her affected gestures are sometimes interpreted as a…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne) 1741 Oil on canvas, 96 x 79 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo insegue Dafne c.1755–1760 National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD): The Metamorphoses (English)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo insegue Dafne (Apollo Pursuing Daphne) c.1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 87 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) c.1743–1745 Oil on canvas, 214 × 232.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington