Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Isabella del Portogallo (Portrait of Isabella of Portugal) 1548 Oil on canvas, 117 cm x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) 1876 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 176.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Legrand, Marguerite (?-1879) | Moulin de la Galette (Paris) | Rivière, Georges (1855-1943)
Director: Peter Webber Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker Screenplay: Olivia Hetreed Based on: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Genre: Drama Music: Alexandre Desplat Country: United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands Language: English Studio: UK Film Council, Archer Street Productions…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La familia de Carlos IV (The Family of Carlos IV) 1800 Oil on canvas, 280 x 336 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait of the family of King Carlos IV (1748-1819) was painted in Aranjuez and Madrid…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 191 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Edouard Manet’s painting Olympia was exhibited in Paris in 1865, it was met by the critics and general public with jeers, laughter, criticism, and distain. Manet had depicted his model, Victorine…
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1526-1593) L’Acqua (Water) 1566 Oil on wood, 66.5 x 50.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de la seconde femme de l’Artiste avec une lampe (Portrait of the Artist’s Second Wife with a Lamp) 1903 Oil on canvas, 23 x 19 cm Musée Picasso, Paris Picasso in his studio holding Rousseau’s Self-portrait with…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Woman with a Pearl Necklace (Vrouw met parelsnoer) 1662–1665 Oil on canvas, 56.1 x 47.4 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin