Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Costanza Alidosi (Portrait of Costanza Alidosi) c.1595 Oil on canvas 157.48 x 119.39 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Lavinia Fontana depicted the Bolognese noblewoman Costanza Alidosi seated in a sparsely, yet…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Bergère nue couchée (Reclining Nude Shepherdess) 1891 Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 86.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen In the spring and summer of 1890 -and again in 1891– Berthe Morisot, with her husband Eugène Manet…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Portrait de Félix Fénéon (Portrait of Félix Fénéon) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York See also: • Fénéon, Félix (1861-1944)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 100 × 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) c.1483 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The most convincing hypothesis, despite the uncertainties stemming from the existence of…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas, estudio (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas, study) 1851 Oil on canvas, 37.7 x 30.3 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires There are no surviving sketches by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, except for unfinished works…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Giuditta e Oloferne (Judith and Holofernes) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 119 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396) in a group linked by the…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Chanteur espagnol (The Spanish Singer) 1860 Oil on canvas, 147.3 x 114.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting, which reflects the Parisian vogue for Spanish art and culture during the Second Empire, won…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Isabella de’ Medici Orsini con un cane (Isabella de’ Medici Orsini with a Dog) early 1560s Oil on panel, 88 × 71 cm Private collection, England See also: • Medici, Isabella de’ (1542-1576)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco (Eleanor of Toledo and her son Francesco) c.1549 Oil on panel, 114 x 95 cm Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale, Pisa See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) | Francesco I de’ Medici…