El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo (Christ driving the Traders from the Temple) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 106.3 × 129.7 cm National Gallery, London El Greco has used theatrical gestures and intense colours to express the chaos and…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Guarigione del cieco nato (The Healing of the Man born Blind) c.1307–1311 Egg tempera on wood, 45.1 × 46.7 cm National Gallery, London This painting comes from the back of the predella of the large, double-sided altarpiece made…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Eton College c.1754 Oil on canvas, 61.6 × 107.7 cm National Gallery, London This view is from the bank of the River Thames, looking across a sprawling meadow towards Eton College on the horizon. A shady glade gives way to…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Place du Havre, Paris (The Place du Havre, Paris) 1893 Oil on canvas, 60.1 × 73.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago After a period of experimentation with the Neo-Impressionist style developed by Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro returned…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Il Canal Grande, Venezia (The Grand Canal, Venice) c.1760 Oil on canvas, 73 × 119.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Although he did not begin to paint views (vedute) until he was in his mid-40s, Francesco Guardi soon…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Pont Saint-Michel, Paris c.1908 Oil on wood, 46 x 53.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Paris (France)
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1504–1505 Tempera, oil, and gilding on panel, 72.5 x 101.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Morning after the Blitz 1940 Crayon and gouache on paper, 63.2 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Maladie du Général (The General’s Disease) 1914–1915 Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 43.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Veduta della Piazzetta verso San Giorgio Maggiore (View of the Piazzetta Looking toward San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice) c.1770–1780 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 75.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • San Giorgio Maggiore | Venezia (Italia)