Director: Sidney Lumet Producer: Elliott Kastner, Lester Persky, Denis Holt Screenplay: Peter Shaffer Based on: Equus by Peter Shaffer Genre: Drama Music: Richard Rodney Bennett Country: United Kingdom | United States Language: English Studio: United Artists Release date: 1977 Running…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Aux courses (At the Races) c.1875 Oil on wood, 12.6 x 21.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We find ourselves on an emerald-green, grassy racetrack as a dusty cluster of horses and their jockeys bear directly…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage tahitien (Tahitian Landscape) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 47.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although the authorship of this picture was once questioned, cleaning and reexamination have securely demonstrated that it is one…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Veduta di Monaco di Baviera (View of Munich) c.1761 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 119.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Munich (Germany)
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Vaprio d’Adda 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Pirna, Obertor dal Sud (Pirna: The Obertor from the South) mid-1750s Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew and student who himself was to become an internationally…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Nymphenburg Palace, Munich c.1761 Oil on canvas, 68.4 x 119.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Nymphenburg Palace (Munich)
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) La fortezza di Königstein (The Fortress of Königstein) 1756–1758 Oil on canvas, 133 x 235.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the distance, a fortress sits on a rocky plateau below a sky filled with lightly…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Tramonto (The Sunset) 1506–1510 Oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 91.4 cm National Gallery, London The meaning of this scene, which takes place in a rocky landscape at sunset or sunrise, is difficult to decipher, largely because…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV, a caballo (Philip IV on horseback) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 303 x 317 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Of the equestrian portraits painted for the Hall of Realms, this is the only one with a…