Tag: breast

Morte di Cleopatra (after 1659)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) after 1659 Oil on canvas, 153 x 169 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the bottom right of the armrest support: GVIDO CAGNAZZI The last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, let herself…

Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifar (1649)

Guercino (1591-1666) Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifar (Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife) 1649 Oil on canvas, 123.2 x 158 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A nude woman with pale pink skin reclines under cream-white sheets in a bed as…

Amnon e Tamar (1649-1650)

Guercino (1591-1666) Amnon e Tamar (Amnon and Tamar) 1649–1650 Oil on canvas, 123 x 158.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the thighs up, a light-skinned man and woman gesture dramatically, partially covered only by colorful lengths of…

Maddalena penitente (1645-1649)

Guercino (1591-1666) Maddalena penitente (Mary Magdalene in Penitence) 1645–1649 Oil on canvas, 119.8 x 101.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Mary Magdalene is one of the most famous saints in Christianity, for having known Christ and because she represented the…

Poèmes Barbares (1896)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…

Ia Orana Maria (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…

A Naiad (1893)

Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Naiad (or Hylas with a Nymph) 1893 Oil on canvas, 66 x 127 cm Private collection

A Mermaid (1900)

Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Mermaid 1900 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 66.6 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London John William Waterhouse presented this painting to the Royal Academy after his election as an Academician. From the 1880s Waterhouse exhibited at…

Hylas and the Nymphs (1896)

Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 Oil on canvas, 98.2 x 163.3 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Mythological scene from the ancient Greek tale of Jason and the Argonauts, showing Hylas being tempted to his death by…