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Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (1504)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (Judith with the Head of Holofernes) 1504 Oil on canvas, 144 cm x 68 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Giorgione‘s work largely determined the development of 16th-century Venetian painting. There are but…

Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (1505-1510)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…

La Trinité-des-Monts à Rome (c.1826-1828)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Trinité-des-Monts à Rome (Trinità dei Monti in Rome) 1826–1828 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 27.3 x 44.7 cm Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève The Church of the Trinità dei Monti, one of the five French…

Femme lisant (1869-1870)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…

Île aux Fleurs près de Vétheuil (1880)

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…

Meule de foin à Giverny (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meule de foin à Giverny (Haystack at Giverny) 1886 Oil on canvas. 60.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Most of the second half of Monet‘s life was spent in and around Giverny, where the leader…