Tag: hand

Crocifissione (1455)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1455 Oil on wood, 39 x 23.25 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu

Crocifissione (1475)

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…

Crocifissione (1475)

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…

Cristo benedicente (c.1465)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Cristo benedicente (Christ Blessing) c.1465 Oil on wood, 38.7 x 29.8 cm National Gallery, London Christ blesses the viewer with his right hand. Antonello has altered the original position of the fingers and hand, foreshortening them –…

Madonna Salting (1460-1469)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Madonna Salting (The Virgin and Child) c.1460–1469 Oil on wood, 43.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary glances down at her baby son, Christ, who clutches a pomegranate in his tiny fist. The fruit,…

Portrait d’Alfred Sisley (1864)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait d’Alfred Sisley (Portrait of Alfred Sisley) 1864 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899)

Naiade (1815-1823)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade (Naiad) model 1815–1817, carved 1820–1823 Marble, 80 x 190 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade 1819–1824 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

Naiade (1819-1824)

Canova, Antonio & studio (1757-1822) Naiade (Reclining Naiad) 1819–1824 Carrara marble, 88.9 × 190.5 × 82.6 cm, 1160.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a variant of the Reclining Venus with Cupid, now in Buckingham Palace, which was…

Perseo con la testa della Medusa (1804-1806)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Perseo con la testa della Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa) 1804–1806 Marble, 242.6 x 191.8 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When Countess Valeria Tarnowska first met the sculptor Antonio Canova, on December…

Paride (1816)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paride (Paris) 1816 Marble, 203.7 x 103.7 x 55 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich Paris, the son of the Trojan king Priam, had been abandoned as a child and found and raised by shepherds. The apple in his right hand…