Tag: hill

Campidoglio (Roma)

Latin: Collis Capitolinus. • Musei Capitolini See also: • Hills | Roma (Italia) | Roman Hills | Seven Hills of Rome

Palatino (Roma)

Latin: Collis Palatium or Mons Palatinus. • Horti Farnesiani See also: • Hills | Roma (Italia) | Roman Hills | Seven Hills of Rome

Celio (Roma)

Latin: Collis Caelius. See also: • Hills | Roma (Italia) | Roman Hills | Seven Hills of Rome

Orazione nell’orto (c.1455-1456)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Orazione nell’orto (Agony in the Garden) c.1455–1456 Egg tempera on wood, 62.9 × 80 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown in prayer. Aware that his disciple Judas had betrayed him, he left Jerusalem and took refuge in…

Pincio (Roma)

Latin: Mons Pincius. The Pincian Hill in Art: Corot, Camille (1796-1875) La Trinité-des-Monts 1825–1828 Musée du Louvre, Paris     Corot, Camille (1796-1875) Monte Pincio, Rome 1840–1850 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     Corot, Camille (1796-1875) La Trinité-des-Monts à Rome 1826–1828 Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève…

San Francesco in estasi (c.1475-1480)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) San Francesco in estasi (St Francis in Ecstasy) c.1475–1480 Oil on panel, 124.1 × 140.5 cm Frick Collection, New York Details of Giovanni Bellini’s birth and early life remain largely unknown. He grew up in Venice, his likely…

The Procession to Calvary (1564)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Procession to Calvary 1564 Oil on oak panel, 124.3 × 170.6 × 1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: BRVEGEL. MD.LXIIII Bruegel continues the Netherlandish pictorial tradition reaching back to Jan van Eyck…

Le Christ jaune (1889)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 73.34 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo The Symbolists, who emerged during the 1880s, were weary of modern society and sought escape from reality. They began to…