Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini (Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children) c.1616–1617 Marble, 132.4 x 73.7 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The complex composition of intertwined figures, skillfully carved…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino benedicente e cherubini (Madonna and Child Blessing) c.1455 Tempera on wood, 94 × 66 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) probably 1440s Tempera on wood, gold ground, 77.5 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jacopo Bellini dominated Venetian painting in the middle years of the fifteenth century and…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna adorante il Bambino che dorme (Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child) early 1460s Tempera on wood, 72.4 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Asleep beneath the solemn gaze of his mother, the Christ Child’s…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) late 1480s Oil on wood, 88.9 x 71.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Separated from our everyday world by a parapet, the Madonna nonetheless draws the viewer in with…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 54 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This early work by the Venetian painter, Giovanni Bellini, reveals the profound influence of…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) 1884–1886 Oil on canvas, 207.5 x 308.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In his best-known and largest…
El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…