Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parahi Te Marae (The Sacred Mountain) 1892 Oil on canvas, 66 × 88.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This painting of a marae, or Tahitian sacred enclosure, was created on Paul Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti. The artist’s title—Parahi…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’idole à la coquille (Idol with a shell) c.1900 Wood, diam. 12,5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Landscape with the Flight into Egypt 1563 Oil on panel, 37.1 x 55.6 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this captivating work, Pieter Bruegel depicts the biblical story of the Virgin Mary, Joseph and their infant son…