Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Maison à Rueil (House at Rueil) 1882 Oil on canvas, 71.5 × 92.3 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin Édouard Manet spent the last summer of his life, already marked by a serious illness, in the country house of the comedy…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Il Carnevale di Venezia (The Carnival of Venice) 18th century Oil on canvas, 36 x 73 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: • Venezia (Italia)
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Le coup de foudre (Love at first sight) 1928 Oil on canvas, 160 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This panel along with its neighbour, titled Le demon du jeu, was part of a series of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sposalizio della Vergine (The Marriage of the Virgin) 1504 Oil on panel, 170 x 118 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting, dating from 1504, was moved from the Church of San Francesco in Città di Castello to…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Veduta del bacino di San Marco dalla Punta della Dogana (View of St. Mark’s from the Punta della Dogana) 1740–1745 Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The View of St. Mark’s Basin came…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Andrea Doria come Nettuno (Portrait of Andrea Doria in the Guise of Neptune) c.1545–1546 Oil on canvas, 149 x 199.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Paolo Giovio commissioned this portrait from Bronzino for a museum that…
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) & Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Predica di San Marco in una piazza di Alessandria d’Egitto (Saint Mark Preaching in a Square of Alexandria in Egypt) 1504–1507 Oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 59 x 203 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396) in a group linked by the…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Lavanda dei piedi (Washing of the Feet) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 210 x 533 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This scene from the New Testament (John 13, 1-20) shows the moment just before the Last Supper, when…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across a glittering waterway lined with long, low boats and sailboats at an…