Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Oil on wood, 53 x 46 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La lecture (Reading) 1873 Oil on fabric, 46 x 71.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Impressionists were mostly men with a few notable exceptions, including Berthe Morisot. While Morisot‘s work includes many of the hallmarks of…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 65 x 48.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi di figure per la volta della Sistina (Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling, verso) 1510–1511 Chalk over charcoal on paper, 34.3 x 24.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Universally considered one of the greatest artists of the Italian…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studio per giovane nudo sul profeta Daniele (Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel, recto) 1510–1511 Chalk over charcoal on paper, 34.3 x 24.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Universally considered one of the greatest artists…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Fête des fleurs (Festival of Flowers, Nice) 1923 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 92.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland While living in Nice after World War I, Matisse adopted a more relaxed style saturated with the warm…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Deux femmes (Two Women) c.1908 Bronze, 45.7 x 25.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Matisse based this sculpture on a photograph of two women embracing, but translated it into a more compact, three-dimensional composition by fusing their…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur au vase étrusque (Interior with an Etruscan Vase) 1940 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 108 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland When Matisse‘s Blue Nude was shown in the 1913 Armory show, the violent, unnaturalistic colors and…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Cristoforo (Saint Christopher) c.1500 Pen, ink, brush, wash and gouache on paper, 28.6 x 17.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Double portrait avec chapeau (Double Portrait with Hat) c.1936–1937 Gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative, 29.8 x 23.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Maar sandwiched two negatives of the same model and painted the background and…