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Madonna con il Bambino (1510)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1510 Oil on canvas, 85 x 115 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Madonna and Child, dated 1510, is the latest of the works by Bellini in Brera. When he…

Autoritratto (1908)

Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano In the canvas, which Boccioni painted in 1908 in his studio in Via Adige in Milan, the artists explores for the first time…

Vue de la Seine (1882-1883)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue de la Seine (View of the Seine) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of Seurat’s career he made about seventy oil studies on small wood…

Une baignade à Asnières (1884)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Une baignade à Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm National Gallery, London This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it…

Vista de Toledo (1599-1600)

El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…

Paysage à Eragny (1890)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paysage à Eragny (Landscape at Eragny) 1890 Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 21.59 x 26.035 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas On 14 January 1891, Camille Pissarro wrote to his eldest son, Lucien: “I have mounted…