Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Annunciation 1480–1489 Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, 76.5 x 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Memling modeled this Annunciation on the left wing of Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Columba Altarpiece (now in Munich), but…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund Probably 1901–1902 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 66.7 cm De Morgan Collection Rosamund was the mistress of Henry II, who built a house for her at Woodstock in Oxfordshire. Legends say…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Sapho, Phaon et l’Amour (Sappho, Phaon and Cupid) 1809 Oil on canvas, 225.3 x 262 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg David is considered the founder and leading light of Neoclassicism, which dominated art in the late 18th and…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) God the Father enthroned, supporting the dead body of Christ 1430s Oil on wood panel, 34.3 x 24.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is the left wing of the Trinity Diptych (1430s). This panel forms a pair…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1574 Oil on poplar, 216 x 166 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1426 Tempera on panel, 162.3 x 191.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This altarpiece was painted for the monastery of Santo Domenico in Fiesole, near Florence. The central panel shows the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le Dormeur téméraire (The Reckless Sleeper) 1928 Oil on canvas, 116 × 81 x 2 cm Tate Britain, London A figure sleeps in a wooden alcove above a dark cloudy sky. The way into this space is barred…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Golden Stairs 1880 Oil on canvas, 269.2 x 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London This painting is an example of Burne-Jones’s interest in investigating a mood rather than telling a story. He deliberately made his pictures mysterious and…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Ragazza della famiglia Gradenigo con una colomba (A young girl of the Gradenigo family with a dove) c.1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 149.5 x 98.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff