Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Rerioa (The Dream) 1897 Oil on canvas, 95.1 x 130.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted this striking work a few years after settling in Tahiti, a French colony in the southern Pacific, and only…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (after Raphael) 1630 Oil on panel, 90.2 x 67.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This is a copy by Peter Paul Rubens of a renowned portrait of the Italian author and diplomat Baldassare…
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard au chat (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat) c.1924 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 111 cm Petit Palais, Paris In the center of a room cluttered with paintings, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) sits on a chair…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Madame Jean Renoir (Catherine Hessling) c.1923 Oil on canvas, 90.4 x 75.2 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo This painting depicts the actress Catherine Hessling, wife of the film director Jean Renoir. Catherine Hessling was her stage name,…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait du marchand Léopold Zborowski (Portrait of the merchant Leopold Zborowski) c.1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 37.1 cm Private collection See also: • Léopold Zborowski (1889-1932)
Bramante (1444-1514) Cristo alla colonna (Christ Tied to the Column) 1487–1490 Oil on panel, 93.7 x 62.5 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Bramante was trained in Urbino, a center of mathematical studies where the use of perspective had been developed as a form…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Crocifissione (Crucifixion) c.1408 Tempera on panel, 60 x 40.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Gentile da Fabriano was the greatest painter of the late Italian Gothic, an itinerant artist who worked in Lombardy, Brescia, Venice, in the marche,…
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation of Christ) 1305 Fresco, 200 x 185 cm Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova Compare: Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Liberación del peón 1931 Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia