Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Penseur (The Thinker) 1903 Bronze, 189 x 98 x 140 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Created in 1880 in its original size, approximately 70 cm, to adorn the tympanum of The Gates of Hell, The Thinker was then…
Le Penseur (1903)
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Le Baiser (c.1882)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) c.1882 Marble, 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Commissioned by the French state in 1888, carved between 1888 and 1898. Joined the collections of the Musée du Luxembourg in 1901; transferred…
Giovanni Boccaccio
(1313–1375) Works: • Alcesto e Acaten (Italian) • Amorosa visione (1342-1343) • Canto di Ameto (Italian) • Corbaccio (1354) • De mulieribus claris (1361) • Decameron (Italian) ◊ De Decamerone van Boccaccio (Dutch) ◊ Novelleja Decameronesta (Finnish) ◊ The Decameron…
Dante et Virgile (1850)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. His…
Ritratto di Dante (c.1495)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Dante (Portrait of Dante) c.1495 Tempera on canvas, 54.7 x 47.5 cm Private collection See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)
Eugène Delacroix
(1798–1863) Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix The artist’s works: La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien 1820 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Un cheval attelé à un poteau c.1820 National Gallery of Art, Washington Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris Jeune orpheline au cimetière…
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1855)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1855 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 45.72 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris …
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1859)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two versions by Manet of Delacroix‘s celebrated painting…
Dante et Virgile aux enfers (1822)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers, dit aussi La Barque de Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell, or The Barque of Dante) 1822 Oil on canvas, 189 x 241.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Purchased by the Directorate of…
William Blake
(1757–1827) The artist’s works: God Judging Adam 1795 Tate Britain, London God Judging Adam c.1795 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Baptism of Christ c.1799 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Job and His Daughters 1799–1800 National Gallery of Art, Washington St. Matthew 1799…