Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Piccola Madonna Cowper (Small Cowper Madonna) c.1505 Oil on panel, 59.5 x 44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman and nude child, both with pale skin, sit in front of a deep landscape in this vertical painting.…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Consegna delle chiavi del Regno (Christ’s Charge to Peter) c.1515–1516 Bodycolour over charcoal underdrawing on paper, mounted on canvas, 344 x 534 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Acquired by the Prince of Wales, future King Charles I in 1623…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Spasimo di Sicilia, Andata al Calvario (Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary) 1515–1516 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 318 x 229 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: Jacopo Basilio commissioned this painting for the Monastery…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Resurrezione di Cristo (Resurrection of Christ) 1499–1502 Oil on wood panel, 56.5 x 47 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Ever since he began his training in the workshop of Pietro Perugino (1446–1524), Raphael Sanzio circulated in the court…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar, 29.4 x 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Raffaello (1483-1520) Processione al Calvario (The Procession to Calvary) c.1504–1505 Oil on poplar, 24.4 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of three scenes from the predella of Raphael’s Colonna Altarpiece, painted for the convent of S. Antonio da Padua…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Tondo Doni (The Holy Family) 1505–1506 Tempera grassa on wood, diameter 120 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Michelangelo painted this Holy Family for a Florentine merchant, Agnolo Doni, whose prestigious marriage to Maddalena Strozzi in 1504 took place in…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Battaglia dei centauri (Battle of the Centaurs) 1490–1492 Marble bas-relief, 84.5 x 88 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The earliest mention of the Battle of the Centaurs is to be found in a letter written in…