Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python (Apollo conquering the serpent Python) s.d. Oil on canvas, width 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1456–1459 Tempera on poplar, 76 x 96 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Central panel of the predella of the triptych commissioned by the apostolic prothonotary Gregorio Correr for the high altar of the church…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Parnaso (Parnassus) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on canvas, 159 x 192 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Commissioned during the winter of 1496–1497 by Isabelle d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) for the decoration of her first studiolo…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Le cirque (The Circus) 1889 Oil on fabric, 48.8 x 60 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Besides being a prolific painter, Suzanne Valadon served as the model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The attribution of…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1500s Oil on canvas, 134.5 x 217 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Titian, the celebrated and prolific 16th-century Venetian artist, and his large workshop painted several versions of this…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Labán en busca de sus dioses domésticos robados (Laban Searching for his Stolen Household Gods) c.1665–1670 Oil on canvas, 243 x 362 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This story comes from the Old Testament book of…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Mort de Sardanapale (Death of Sardanapalus) 1827 Oil on canvas, 392 cm × 496 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris “The rebels besieged him in his palace… Lying on a superb bed, at the top of an immense pyre,…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Chevaux se battant (Fighting Horses) c.1820 Watercolor over graphite on paper, 21.7 x 29.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Théodore Géricault began this work with sketches from life, which became a graphite underdrawing beneath the watercolors. Géricault…