Tag: church

Chiesa di Ognissanti (Firenze)

Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti Built: 1251 Location: Borgo Ognissanti 42, 50123 Firenze Website: https://www.chiesaognissanti.it/ Works of Art: • Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510): Sant’Agostino nello studio (1480) • Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494): San Girolamo nello studio (1480) See also: • Churches | Firenze (Italia)

Le Violiniste (1912-1913)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Violiniste (The Fiddler) 1912–1913 Oil on linen tablecloth, 196.5 x 166.5 x 6.5 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Marc Chagall completed The Violinist shortly after moving from St. Petersburg to Paris. It is a good example of the…

Autoportrait aux sept doigts (1912-1913)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Autoportrait aux sept doigts (Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers) 1912–1913 Oil on canvas, 135.5 x 117 x 6 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Marc Chagall‘s Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers is not a naturalistic image, yet it describes a great deal…

Moi et le village (1911)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Moi et le village (I and the Village) 1911 Oil on canvas, 192.1 x 151.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York Chagall grew up in a Hasidic Jewish community in what is today Belarus. I and the…

Piccola Madonna Cowper (c.1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Piccola Madonna Cowper (Small Cowper Madonna) c.1505 Oil on panel, 59.5 x 44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman and nude child, both with pale skin, sit in front of a deep landscape in this vertical painting.…

Les toits de Collioure (c.1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les toits de Collioure (View of Collioure) c.1905 Oil on canvas, 59.5 x 73 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg © Succession H. Matisse Collioure was a small southern French town on the shore of the Mediterranean where Matisse worked…

Santa Croce (Firenze)

Groundbreaking: 1294 Completed: 1385 Consecrated: 1443 Architects: Arnolfo di Cambio, Filippo Brunelleschi Style: Gothic, Renaissance, Gothic Revival Location: Piazza Santa Croce, 16 – 50122 Firenze Website: https://www.santacroceopera.it/ Burials: • Clary, Julie (1771-1845) • Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) • Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455)…

Le tre età dell’uomo (1512-1514)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Le tre età dell’uomo (The Three Ages of Man) 1512–1514 Oil on canvas, 90 x 150.7 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This early work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age. Cupid clambers over the sleeping…

Duomo (Castelfranco Veneto)

Duomo Arcipretale Abbaziale di Santa Maria Assunta e San Liberale Completed: 1745 Location: Vicolo del Cristo, 14, 31033 Castelfranco Veneto TV, Italia Works of Art: • Giorgione (c.1477-1510): Pala di Castelfranco (c.1503-04) See also: • Castelfranco Veneto (Italia) | Cathedrals | Churches

Catedral de Santa María de Valencia (Valencia)

Consecrated: 1238 Address: Plaza de la Limosna, s/n, Ciutat Vella, 46003 Valencia, España Website: https://catedraldevalencia.es/ Art: • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): San Francisco de Borja y el moribundo impenitente (1788) See also: • Cathedrals | Churches | Valencia (España)