Caravaggio (1571-1610) Martirio di San Matteo (Martyrdom of Saint Matthew) 1599–1600 Oil on canvas 323 x 342 cm Cappella Contarelli, San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
Martirio di San Matteo (1599-1600)
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Dido building Carthage (1815)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…
Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…
Les lauriers roses (1867)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 91.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Castelnau-le-Lez (France) | Des Hours, Thérèse
Pêcheur au filet (1868)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Pêcheur au filet (Fisherman with a net) 1868 Oil on canvas, 134 x 83 cm Private collection
Marine à Sainte-Adresse (1865)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Marine à Sainte-Adresse (Beach at Sainte-Adresse) 1865 Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 140 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta On a windy, overcast day on the northern coast of France, fishing boats ply the choppy waters. In this unsentimental…
Porte de la Reine à Aigues-Mortes (1867)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Porte de la Reine à Aigues-Mortes (Porte de la Reine at Aigues-Mortes) 1867 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the late spring of 1867 Bazille visited the town of Aigues-Mortes near…
Scène d’été (1869)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Scène d’été / Les Baigneurs (Summer Scene / Bathers) 1869 Oil on canvas, 160 x 160.7 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge When this painting was first exhibited at the Salon of 1870, critic and artist Zacharie Astruc wrote of Bazille,…
Impression, soleil levant (1872)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872 Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (1873)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 59.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the summer of 1873, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was staying with his friend Claude Monet…