Tag: bridge

Bridges

• Charing Cross Bridge (London) • Hungerford Bridge (London) • London Bridge (London) • Pont de Clichy (Asnières-sur-Seine–Clichy) • Pont de l’Europe (Paris) • Pont Neuf (Paris) • Tower Bridge (London) • Waterloo Bridge (London) • Westminster Bridge (London)

La Gioconda (Monna Lisa)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) La Gioconda (Monna Lisa) c.1503–1506 Oil on poplar, 79.4 x 53.4 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris A false identity problem It is only since the 20th century that certain historians, but more often amateurs in search of recognition,…

La Tamise à Westminster (c.1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster (The Thames at Westminster) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm National Gallery, London Monet arrived in London in September 1870, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and stayed until May…

Dido building Carthage (1815)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…

Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…

Waterloo Bridge (London)

Waterloo Bridge in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) Le Pont de Waterloo 1906 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid     Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont de Waterloo, effet de brouillard 1903 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg     Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge 1903 Worcester Art…

Pont Neuf (Paris)

Pont Neuf in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont Neuf 1871 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas     Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont Neuf, effet de neige 1902 National Museum Wales, Cardiff     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris…