Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Fenêtre (The Window) 1925 Oil on canvas, 108.6 × 88.6 cm Tate Britain, London In this work, Bonnard unites interior and exterior in the strong sunlight of the South of France. It was made in a rented apartment…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) San Giuseppe e i corteggiatori della Vergine (Saint Joseph and the Virgin’s Suitors) c.1508 Oil on panel, 45 x 34.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Lorenzo Lotto was forgotten by art historians until the late 19th century. It was…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Fleur coquillage (Flower-Shell) 1927 Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid The present Flower-Shell belongs to a set of canvases on the same theme executed between 1927 and 1929, when Max Ernst was…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Vignobles à Auvers (Vineyards at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 80.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Colin-Maillard (Blind Man’s Buff) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo In the 18th century the game of blind man’s buff (or bluff) became the symbolic arena for courtship, chance, and the…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Garden of Eden c.1610–1612 Oil on panel, 59.4 x 95.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen Brueghel was born into a famous dynasty of artists and, together with Rubens, he was generally regarded as…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) L’Annonciation (The Annunciation) 1890 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 47 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen Between 1888 and 1891, Émile Bernard together with Gauguin was the creator of Synthetism, the tendency that marked a historical turn…
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1475 Mixed media on panel, 133 x 124 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This panel of The Annunciation entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection from the British art market and seems to have previously been in a private…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Virgin of Humility) c.1425 Tempera on panel, 98.6 x 49.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Guido di Piero da Mugello, known as Friar Giovanni…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1574 Oil on poplar, 216 x 166 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris