Tag: drapery

Ragazzo con la freccia (c.1505)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ragazzo con la freccia (Boy with an Arrow) c.1505 Oil on poplar, 48 × 41.8 × 2.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This bust of an idealized young man with a rich mane of curls and an arrow in…

Tre filosofi (1508-1509)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Tre filosofi (Three Philosophers) 1508–1509 Oil on canvas, 125.5 × 146.2 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “The oil painting with the three philosophers in a landscape, two standing and one sitting looking at the sun’s rays, with…

Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (1505-1510)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…

Sacra Famiglia Benson (c.1500)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Sacra Famiglia Benson (The Holy Family) c.1500 Oil on panel transferred to hardboard, 37.3 x 45.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man and a young woman holding an infant are seated together in the center…

Les Amants (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…

Felipe IV, orante (c.1655)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV, orante (Philip IV in prayer) c.1655 Oil on canvas, 209 x 147 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This pair of portraits (P001220 and P001222) combines several aspects of Spanish portraiture of the Baroque period. In…

Felipe IV (1626-1628)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV (Philip IV) 1626–1628 Oil on canvas, 57 x 44 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is an extraordinary example of the eventful life of many royal portraits during the Siglo de Oro, and it shows…

Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet (1894)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet (Berthe Morisot and her daughter Julie Manet) 1894 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.5 cm Private collection Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet is a rare and intimate depiction…