Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Antonin Proust 1880 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 95.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo This portrait was painted in a single sitting using unprepared canvas. Exhibited at the 1880 Paris Salon, it was praised by some for…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Chanteuse de rue (Street Singer) c.1862 Oil on canvas, 171.1 x 105.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Awkwardly clutching her guitar and a parcel of cherries, a street musician hitches up her skirt to facilitate her…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Mlle V. en costume d’espada (Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada) 1862 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 127.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1927) in the guise of a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1545 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 170 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna in contemplazione (The Virgin in Contemplation) 16th century Oil on canvas, 75 cm x 48 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 87 x 80 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Salome, an Edomite princess born of Herodias and the wife of Herod Philip…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del Cardinale Pietro Bembo (Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo) 1539–1540 Oil on canvas, 94.5 x 76.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. At the time Titian painted…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…