Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici (Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici) c.1560 Oil on wood, 84 x 64 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Medici, Cosimo I de’ (1519-1574)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Père Paul 1882 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 52.1 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna The light! The colors! Impressionist paintings seem to glow from within. Pink, blue and green stand side by side in many different shades. Up…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait de jeune homme (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1913–1914 Oil on canvas with graphite underdrawing, 91.8 x 73.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Italienne (The Italian Woman) 1916 Oil on canvas, 116.7 x 89.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Henri Matisse often painted the same subject in versions that range from relatively realistic to more abstract or schematic. At times the transition…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di un giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1510 Mixed technique on poplar, 20 x 17 x 0.4 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt This early work by Titian presents such a radically close-up view of the sitter that he has…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans la vanillère, homme et cheval (In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse) 1891 Oil on jute canvas, 73 x 92 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Prior to his first voyage to Tahiti in 1891, Paul Gauguin claimed—from a…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Julie Manet au chat, d’après Auguste Renoir (Julie Manet with a cat, after Auguste Renoir) c.1889 Drypoint on paper, 14.8 x 12 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The painting by Renoir is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait de Berthe Morisot (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) c.1876 Drypoint, 26.2 x 17.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)
Guercino (1591-1666) Papa Gregorio XV (Pope Gregory XV) c.1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 133.7 × 98.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino or simply Guercino, meaning “The Squinter”, a nickname referring to a congenital eye condition from which…