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Tommaso Inghirami (c.1510)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…

Émile Zola (1868)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…

Autorretrato ante su caballete (c.1785)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Autorretrato ante su caballete (Self-portrait at his easel) c.1785 Oil on canvas, 40 x 27 cm Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid The execution of this canvas coincides with a decisive stage in Goya‘s life in Madrid. In…