Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard) 1899 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard 1908 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 65.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints) 1308–1311 Tempera on wood, 214 x 412 cm Duomo di Siena, Siena This was the central panel of the Maestà altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena. Virtual reconstruction of the…
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) David Garrick 1770 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 63.2 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • Garrick, David (1717-1779)