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El otoño (1786)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El otoño (Autumn) 1786 Oil on canvas, 34 x 24.3 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Concerto di giovani (1597)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Concerto di giovani (The Musicians) 1597 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 118.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York While Cupid confirms Caravaggio’s allegorical frame for representing Music, the artist equally engages with contemporary performance and individualized models, including…

Le Coffret chinois (1922)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Coffret chinois (Chinese Casket) 1922 Oil on canvas, 60.4 x 74 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Henri Matisse‘s love of decoration is evident here, as the patterned tablecloth and wallpapers flow together into a dizzying composition that almost…

La Bascule (c.1750-1752)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Bascule (The See-Saw) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 120 x 94.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas forms the pair to a painting in the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Blind Man’s Buff (Le Colin-Maillard). Both were in…

Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes (c.1509-1510)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes c.1509–1510 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 44.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the leading figures in the 16th-century…