Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1490–1495 Tempera on poplar panel, 140 x 209.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Botticelli created this depiction of a Pieta for meditation on the Passion, surrounded by female mourners and saints…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1495–1500 Tempera on wood, 106 x 71 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano The painting, one of the most dramatic realizations of Sandro Botticelli‘s late activity, depicts the moment in which…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 67.3 x 150.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The picture dates about 1500 and is painted in the harsh style Botticelli evolved during…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Teseo sul Minotauro (Theseus and the Minotaur) 1782 Marble, 145.4 x 158.7 x 91.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London The legendary Greek hero Theseus sits astride the minotaur whom he has just killed. Coils of thread used…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pietà c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar panel, 23.6 x 28.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner waited just two years before purchasing her second work by the artist. This small panel,…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple. Le 28 juillet 1830 (Liberty Leading the People. July 28, 1830) 1830 Oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Other title: Une Barricade (A Barricade) Inscription: “Eug. Delacroix.1830” (in…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (War, or Discord on Horseback) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 195 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris More than twenty years after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and the Commune in 1871 when the Douanier Rousseau painted War,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sepellimento di Santa Lucia (Burial of Saint Lucy) 1608 Oil on canvas, 408 x 300 cm Santa Lucia alla Badia, Siracusa
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le jour des morts (All Saints’ Day) 1859 Oil on canvas, 147 x 120 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux William Bouguereau presented at the Salon of 1859 Wounded Love, The Portrait of Madame Duret, painted in 1857, as well…