Giotto (c.1267-1337) Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1320 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 45.1 x 43.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture—at once austere and tender—belongs to a series of seven showing the life of…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’âge d’or (The Golden Age) 1862 Oil on paper mounted on panel, 46.4 x 61.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair) c.1512 Oil on wood, diameter 71 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Mary is seen from the side, seated on a ‘chamber chair’, a type of seat reserved for the high dignitaries of the papal…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Jupiter et Antiope (Jupiter and Antiope) 1851 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 43.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vierge à l’hostie (The Virgin with the Host) 1854 Oil on canvas, diameter 113 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Repetition with variants of the Virgin painted in 1841 for the future Tsar Alexander II (Pushkin Museum, Moscow). Compare: Ingres,…
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Sleeping Child c.1906 Graphite pencil on cream wove paper, 54.9 × 34.9 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Mère et l’enfant (Mother and Child) 1928 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 64.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Les Enfants au verger, L’Automne (Children in an Orchard, Autumn) 1871 Oil on cardboard, 35.6 × 27.9 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) San Giuseppe e Gesù Bambino (Saint Joseph and the Christ Child) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 154 × 111.3 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit This imposing yet tender representation of Saint Joseph gently cradling the infant Jesus in…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Le Bain (The Bath) 1908 Crayon, pastel, and red and white chalk on paper, 33.3 × 36.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit