Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco, Venezia (Piazza San Marco, Venice) c.1730–1734 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Canaletto, celebrated for his views of Venice (vedute), depicts the city’s principal square of San Marco, which was…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s Square) late 1720s Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 112.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most celebrated view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, Canaletto was particularly popular with British visitors to the…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Deux Baigneuses (Two Bathers) 1884 Oil on canvas, 200.7 x 128.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c.1835 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner drew on his considerable experience as a marine painter and the brilliance…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Whalers c.1845 Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 122.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner was seventy years old when Whalers debuted to mixed reviews at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845. Its subject…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Green Wheat Fields, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 91.44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most popular and universally recognized artists of all time. A remarkably…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Field with Cypresses (F 717, JH 1756) 1889 Oil on canvas 73.2 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cypresses gained ground in Van Gogh’s work by late June 1889 when he resolved…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…