Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1483–1484 Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 81.3 x 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Madonna and Child are shown in a contemporary Florentine palace. Through the window is…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Madonna col Bambino e angeli (Madonna and Child with Angels) c.1410 Tempera on wood, traces of gold ground, 85.7 x 50.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although badly damaged, this picture is a rare work…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) 1787 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 196.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this landmark of Neoclassical painting from the years immediately preceding the French Revolution, David took up…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Pandora 1871 Oil on canvas, 131 x 79 cm Private collection
Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) Portrait funéraire de Jacques Damala (Funerary Portrait of Jacques Damala) c.1889 Marble, 27.9 x 46 x 31.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great tragic actress, Sarah Bernhardt, was also a gifted sculptor. She carved this…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sacra Conversazione (Holy Conversation) c.1560–1570 Oil on canvas, 122.87 x 148.91 x 8.89 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Femme penchée en avant (Woman Bending Forward) c.1920 Black and colored chalk, 16.3 x 14.3 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Comparison 1892 Oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Ariane (Ariadne) s.d. Oil on canvas, 44 x 29 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Sénèque (The Death of Seneca) 1773 Oil on canvas, 123 x 160 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus minor (4 BC-65 AD)