Guercino (1591-1666) San Gregorio e Santi (Saint Gregory the Great with Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier) c.1625–1626 Oil on canvas, 296 x 211 cm National Gallery, London This altarpiece commemorates one of the most important events of the papacy…
Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di sant’Agostino (Saint Augustine meditating on the Trinity) 1636 Oil on canvas, 185 x 166 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to this saint’s story, he was walking along the seaside meditating about the mystery of the…
Guercino (1591-1666) San Pietro liberato da un angelo (Saint Peter freed by an Angel) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 105 x 136 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A youthful looking angel with curly hair imperiously points out the path of freedom…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Jules Peyron c.1885–1887 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 38.1 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin 1888 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Homme à la toque (Man in a Toque, Self-Portrait) c.1875–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé (The Tea) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 92.07 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Loge c.1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 63.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, two young women with pale, peachy skin wearing white gowns sit close together and almost fill this…