Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Pietà c.1850 Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 27 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo
Pietà (c.1850)
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Crucifixión (c.1675)
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…
La Anunciación (c.1650)
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Anunciación (Annunciation) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 183 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Archangel Gabriel has descended from the heavens and kneels before Mary to announce the birth of Christ. The Angel holds some white…
Grey and Silver: Chelsea Wharf (1864-1868)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Grey and Silver: Chelsea Wharf c.1864–1868 Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Chelsea (London)
Wapping (1860-1864)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…
The Scream (1910)
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) probably 1910 Tempera and oil on cardboard, 83.5 × 66 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 5 things you should know about The Scream Written by: Ute Kuhleman Falck, curator at MUNCH It is one of the…
La Rendición de Breda (c.1635)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las lanzas, o La Rendición de Breda (The Surrender of Breda) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 307.3 x 371.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid On June 5, 1625 the Dutch governor of Breda, Justinus van Nassau, surrendered the…
Cristo en la cruz (1631)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1631 Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Unlike the Christ Crucified (P1161) from the convent of San Plácido, whose authorship and extraordinary merits are…
La fragua de Vulcano (1630)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La fragua de Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) 1630 Oil on canvas, 223 x 290 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A figure suddenly appears on the left in a forge where various blacksmiths are working, dressed in…
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…