Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on canvas, 255 x 140 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Composition surrounded by a trompe-l’oeil porphyry border. Probably arrived in Aigueperse (Auvergne) on the occasion of the marriage…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Un porticato: paesaggio veneziano (An Arcade: Venetian Landscape) 18th century Oil on canvas, 40 x 31 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Artwork recovered after World War II, retrieved by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés (OBIP); to…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) La presentazione al tempio (The Presentation in the Temple) c.1423 Oil on poplar, 26.5 x 62.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Element of the predella of the altarpiece painted in 1423 at the request of Palla Strozzi…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) La Punta della Dogana a Venezia (The Punta della Dogana in Venice) 18th century Brown wash, pen on brown paper, 14.8 x 29.9 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The drawing, whose surface is somewhat lost, is considered original…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Le Moulin de la Galette 1900s Gouache, 25 x 32.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Moulin de la Galette (Paris)
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Metropolitana di Parigi, ruota panoramica e Torre Eiffel (Paris Subway, Ferris Wheel and Eiffel Tower) c.1912–1913 Pastel and charcoal, 59.6 x 48.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gino Severini joined the Futurist movement, which emphasized the dynamism,…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London 1870 or 1871 Oil on canvas, 34.3 × 72.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Detail of Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, and his equestrian statue. This small painting is one of two…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) La Sacra Famiglia con San Giovanni Battista e Santa Margherita (The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret) 1495 Tempera and oil on wood, diameter 153 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lippi‘s sophisticated composition…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) La Place du Tertre (Tertre Square) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 73 cm Tate Britain, London A view of the Place du Tertre on the Butte Montmartre in Paris, looking down the Rue Norvins. There is strong…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Train de banlieue arrivant à Paris (Suburban Train Arriving in Paris) 1915 Oil on canvas, 88.6 x 115.6 cm Tate Britain, London This painting of a train arriving in Paris attempts to express movement and conflicting energies through…