Blake, William (1757-1827) St. Matthew 1799 Tempera on canvas, 38.5 x 26.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Like St. Matthew, William Blake reported having visions of angels throughout his life. The energy and awe with which the evangelist Saint Matthew…
Blake, William (1757-1827) The Holy Family (also known as Christ in the Lap of Truth) c.1805 Pen, ink and brush, 37.9 x 32.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although he rejected institutionalized religion, Blake was intensely spiritual, and much of…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La Cena de Emaús (The Supper at Emmaus) 1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 123.2 x 132.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts the moment after the Resurrection when Jesus is recognized by two disciples as…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1928 Oil on cardboard, 60 x 80.48 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Suzanne Valadon posed as a model for the artists Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting herself in 1893.…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’Amazone (The Amazon) 1923 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Dame au chien (A Woman with a Dog) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting belongs to a celebrated group of Fragonards known as the fantasy figures. The canvas…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) A Young Woman as a Shepherdess s.d. Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Inscribed (lower right): Rembrandt f. / 1632. Like many of Rembrandt’s other pupils, Govert Flinck…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) c.1505 Oil on linden, 58.1 x 47 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture of Christ as Savior of the World, who raises his right hand in blessing and in…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) L’Auteur fumant, à mi-corps (The author smoking, half-length) 1897 Etching, drypoint and roulette, 34.6 × 24.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…