Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Au Louvre: Musée des Antiques (At the Louvre: Antiquities Museum) 1879–1880 Etching and drypoint on paper, 27 x 23.6 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Mary Cassatt is leaning elegantly on an umbrella looking at an Etruscan burial image in a…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) La sepoltura di Cristo (The Burial of Christ) 1595 Oil on copper, 43.8 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This deeply moving picture was painted for one of Carracci’s patrons, Astorre di Vincenzo Sampieri, a…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Un enterrement à Ornans (A Burial at Ornans) 1849–1850 Oil on canvas, 315 x 668 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris At the end of the summer of 1849, Courbet began his first monumental painting. He wanted to make it…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sepellimento di Santa Lucia (Burial of Saint Lucy) 1608 Oil on canvas, 408 x 300 cm Santa Lucia alla Badia, Siracusa