Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) I primi frutti della terra offerti a Saturno (The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn) 1555–1556 Pen, ink and chalk, 17.2 x 39.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The drawing, surely from the hand…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Moulin Rouge: La Goulue 1891 Lithograph, 190 x 116.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the brassy dance hall and drinking garden of the Moulin Rouge opened on the boulevard de Clichy in 1889, one…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi per la Sibilla libica, verso (Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure, verso) c.1510–1511 Chalk, 28.9 × 21.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recto: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi per la Sibilla…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Danse I (Dance I) 1909 Oil on canvas, 259.7 x 390.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York See also: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Capucines avec le tableau “Danse” I 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Baccanale con un tino di vino (Bacchanal with a Wine Vat) c.1470–1490 Engraving and drypoint, 29.9 x 43.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Throughout his life, Mantegna was fascinated with classical antiquity. In the middle of…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) shortly after 1450 Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood, 40 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted when the artist was probably in his early twenties, the…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Piazza San Marco late 1760s Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 85.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view can be compared to Canaletto’s of the same location painted forty years prior. Guardi’s technique is far looser…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) L’enlèvement de Rébecca (The Abduction of Rebecca) 1846 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Throughout his career Delacroix was inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite author of…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Paysage avec un ruisseau ensoleillé (Landscape with a Sunlit Stream) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 63.8 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Daubigny began exhibiting his work regularly at the Salon in 1838, and by the…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La place du marché, Vitebsk (The Marketplace, Vitebsk) 1917 Oil on canvas, 66 × 97.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York After training and exhibiting his art in Paris, Chagall returned to his hometown Vitebsk in 1914…