Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, fourth episode 1483 Tempera on panel, 83 x 142 cm Private collection These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story of Nastagio,…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Venere e Marte (Venus and Mars) c.1485 Tempera and oil on poplar, 69.2 x 173.4 cm National Gallery, London Venus, the goddess of love, looks over at her lover Mars. She is alert and dignified, while he – the…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Christ Crucified) 1475 Oil on wood, 41.9 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London Christ’s body hangs limply on the Cross; the torment of his crucifixion is almost over. He is supported in his final moments by…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Calvary) 1475 Oil on panel, 52.5 x 42.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The dead Christ hangs from the Cross on Golgotha, also known as Mount Calvary. The Virgin Mary is mourning at his…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Eté à Bougival (Summer at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 47 x 62 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Bougival (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Villeneuve-la-Garenne 1872 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Impressionist painters turned repeatedly to the depiction of small provincial towns like Villeneuve-la-Garenne. This canvas comes from the early period of Impressionism and still retains…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 61.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1872 to 1877, Sisley lived along the Seine just west of Paris, an area whose…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 65.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bougival (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…