David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Marat Assassiné (Marat Assassinated) 1793 Oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels See also: • Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Bruto e Arrunte (Death of consul L. J. Brutus in a duel with Arruns) c.1728–1730 Oil on canvas, 383 × 182 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription: On the typeface above the ballhorned quote: MVTVO VVLNERE OCCVBVIT ADVLTERVM FERE…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia The subject of this painting was inspired by Lord Byron‘s dramatic poem of 1821 about the life of an…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (Exhibition of the Body of Saint Bonaventure) c.1629 Oil on canvas, 245 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for the church of the San Buenaventura college in Seville, around 1629;…
Blake, William (1757-1827) The Death of the Wicked Man s.d. Watercolor, 20.2 × 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Third sheet in a series of nineteen, commissioned by the publisher Robert H. Cromek to illustrate the collection The Grave by the…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco y el hermano León meditando sobre la muerte (Saint Francis and Brother Leo Meditating on Death) c.1600–1605 Oil on canvas, 168 x 103.2 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco medita…
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Hope I (Hoffnung I) 1903 Oil on canvas, 189.2 x 67 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Study: Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Standing Pregnant Woman with a Man 1902–1903 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Prins, Pierre-Ernest (1838-1913) Manet sur son lit de mort (Manet on His Deathbed) c.1883 Pastel, 32.4 × 46 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)