Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Table (The Table) 1925 Oil on canvas, 102.9 × 74.3 cm Tate Britain, London This painting was bought as a result of the Courtauld Fund. In January 1924 the wealthy textile manufacturer Samuel Courtauld gave the large sum…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image) 1938 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 92.07 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1929, Salvador Dalí joined the artists of the Surrealist movement in…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Mangiatore di pasta, Allegoria del gusto (Pasta Eater: Allegory of Taste) c.1660 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 74 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Compare: Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Mangiatore di pesce c.1660 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Ovide chez les Scythes (Ovid among the Scythians) 1859 Oil on canvas, 87.6 × 130.2 cm National Gallery, London In AD 8 the Roman poet Ovid, author of The Art Of Love and the epic poem Metamorphoses, was banished…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Silver Favourites c.1903 Oil on panel, 110 X 71 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester The verse on the frame is from Wordsworth‘s poem ‘Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase’. See also: • Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Merrymakers at Shrovetide c.1616–1617 Oil on canvas, 131.4 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Shrovetide, now better known as Mardi Gras, is the traditional period of indulgence before the fasting and self-discipline of Lent. In the…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il gusto (The Sense of Taste) c.1614–1616 Oil on canvas, 113.8 x 88.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This jolly, somewhat ragged figure is an embodiment of the sense of taste, and perhaps also an allusion to the sin…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Il ristoro miracoloso (The miraculous refreshment) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 126 x 230.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The paintings in the chapel paid for by the Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera in the church of Santiago…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1594 Oil on copper, 25.2 × 35.2 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Implorante (The Implorer) modeled 1898, cast c.1905 Bronze, 27.9 × 36.8 × 21.3 cm, 5.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Camille Claudel, Rodin’s most brilliant student, was consumed by her twelve-year affair with the sculptor. In…