Bronzino (1503-1572) Garzia de’ Medici c.1550 Oil on panel, 48 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait of García de’ Medici (1547–1562), third son of Cosimo de’ Medici and Leonor de Toledo, is an excellent example of the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Madonna e Bambino con santi (The Madonna and Child with Saints) c.1540 Oil on wood, 101.6 x 81.3 cm National Gallery, London Elderly Saint Elizabeth looks down over the Virgin Mary’s shoulder at her son Saint John the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) & Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere dormiente (Sleeping Venus) c.1508–1510 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 175 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden The painting is one of the most famous works of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. It was probably commissioned by…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet et sa fille à Bougival (Eugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival) 1881 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris See also: • Bougival (France) | Eugène Manet (1833-1892) | Julie Manet (1878-1966)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 32 x 41 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Madame Pierre Gautreau, born Virginie Avegno (1859–1915), was Madame X, the statuesque sitter in Sargent’s most notorious portrait…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Orphée ramenant Eurydice des enfers (Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld) 1861 Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 137.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Île aux Fleurs près de Vétheuil (Île aux Fleurs near Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two views of the Île aux Fleurs, an…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil (Poppy Fields near Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of four similar views of the plain of Gennevilliers, just…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Un coin de jardin à Montgeron (Corner of the Garden at Montgeron) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 175 x 194 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Created at the very height of Impressionism by the leader of the movement,…