Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1470 Oil on wood, 27 x 20.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Trained in Naples in the Netherlandish technique of oil painting, Antonello set the standard for…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Pala di San Cassiano (San Cassiano Altarpiece) 1475–1476 Oil on poplar panel Center table: Madonna and Child, 115 × 63 cm Left panel: Saint Nicholas of Bari and Saint Magdalene (?), 55.5 × 35 cm Right…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Cristo benedicente (Christ Blessing) c.1465 Oil on wood, 38.7 x 29.8 cm National Gallery, London Christ blesses the viewer with his right hand. Antonello has altered the original position of the fingers and hand, foreshortening them –…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Madonna Salting (The Virgin and Child) c.1460–1469 Oil on wood, 43.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary glances down at her baby son, Christ, who clutches a pomegranate in his tiny fist. The fruit,…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ecce Homo (Christ Crowned with Thorns) c.1475 Oil and tempera on wood, 42.5 x 30.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York An artist of astonishing originality, Antonello combined a Netherlandish mastery of description with an Italian…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait d’Alfred Sisley (Portrait of Alfred Sisley) 1864 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899)
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paride (Paris) 1816 Marble, 203.7 x 103.7 x 55 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich Paris, the son of the Trojan king Priam, had been abandoned as a child and found and raised by shepherds. The apple in his right hand…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry) 1816 Marble, 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Trained by his grandfather, an Italian stonemason, Canova began modeling clay and carving marble sculptures before age ten. In…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Dedalo e Icaro (Daedalus and Icarus) 1777–1779 Marble, 182 x 95 cm Museo Correr, Venezia This famous sculpture, his first large one in marble, is the masterpiece of Antonio Canova‘s Venetian youth. It was created for the procurator…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte 1804–1807 Marble, h. 145 cm Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England See also: • Ramolino Bonaparte, Maria Letizia (1750-1836)