Blake, William (1757-1827) Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims 1810, reprinted before 1881 Engraving on paper, 35.7 x 96.7 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400)
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Studio di panneggio (Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Facing Right, in Profile) late 1460s-early 1470s Brush and opaque watercolor, on linen, mounted to paper, 28.3 × 18.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue de Paris (Street in Paris) 1914 Oil on canvas, 63.5 × 80 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Paris (France)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Tarquinio e Lucrezia (Tarquin and Lucretia) 1578–1580 Oil on canvas, 175 × 151.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago According to Roman history, the rape of the virtuous matron Lucretia by Tarquin, son of the king of Rome,…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue de Moret (Street in Moret) c.1890 Oil on canvas, 60 × 73.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Moret-sur-Loing (France)
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Festival a Montmartre (Festival in Montmartre) 1913 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 116.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Gino Severini was a member of the Futurists, a group of Italian artists that announced its existence with a manifesto…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La cascade (The Waterfall) 1910 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 150.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Among the very last compositions Henri Rousseau painted, The Waterfall is typical of the large-scale jungle scenes for which he gained…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 87.5 × 69.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Inscribed top left on frame: JUN: DIE 9 ANNO 1290; top right on frame: QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!; and bottom of frame: MART:…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le bosquet sacré, bien-aimé des arts et des muses (The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses) 1884–1889 Oil on canvas, 93 × 231 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The indeterminately mythological figures that…