Magritte, René (1898-1967) La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) 1929 Oil on canvas, 60.33 x 81.12 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles © René Magritte Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Cocos gimientes (Weeping Coconuts) 1951 Oil on masonite, 23.18 x 30.48 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles © 2007 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Reproduction of Diego Rivera governed by Instituto…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Self-Portrait 1542–1543 Coloured chalk, pen and gold on paper, 32 x 26 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus 1523 Oil on wood, 73.6 x 51.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Longford Castle collection, © Longford Castle Collection Erasmus (1466/9 – 1536) was one of the most famous writers of his day…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (Bildnis des Albrecht Dürer des Älteren) 1497 Oil on lime, 51 x 40.3 cm National Gallery, London The inscription at the top of this picture tells us the sitter is Dürer’s father, Albrecht…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Self-Portrait or Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle 1493 Parchment glued on canvas, 56.5 x 44.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dürer‘s first painted self-portrait, possibly an engagement portrait – the thistle or panicaut (eryngium), which Dürer…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo crucificado (Christ Crucified) c.1632 Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Stylistically, this work appears to have been made in the early 1630s -soon after the artist returned from Italy– and most authors…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1631 Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Unlike the Christ Crucified (P1161) from the convent of San Plácido, whose authorship and extraordinary merits are…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Duquesa de Alba (The Duchess of Alba) 1797 Oil on canvas, 210.3 x 149.3 cm Hispanic Society of America, New York Inscribed bottom center and left (in the soil): “Solo Goya / 1797” Francisco de Goya…