Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Mosquito Nets 1908 Oil on canvas, 57.2 × 71.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Mosquito Nets (1908)
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Portrait de Femme (1877)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait de Femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1877 Oil on canvas, 64.8 × 53.3 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Autoportrait (c.1893)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait (Self-portrait) c.1893 Oil on canvas, 46 × 38.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Gauguin exemplified the restless artistic spirit. In this image, painted during a brief return to Paris from Tahiti in 1893, he plays the…
Ester e Assuero (1620s)
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1620s Oil on canvas, 208.3 × 273.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This…
Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1527-1529)
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine) c.1527–1529 Oil on wood, 73 x 58 cm Private collection Compare: Parmigianino (1503-1540) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina c.1527–1531 National Gallery, London Parmigianino (1503-1540) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina c.1529…
Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1527-1531)
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine) c.1527–1531 Oil on wood, 74.2 x 57.2 cm National Gallery, London The infant Christ turns to look back at his mother as he places a ring on Saint Catherine’s finger.…
Lucrezia (c.1539)
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Lucrezia (Lucretia) c.1539 Watercolor over black chalk, 29.8 x 20.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Uomo che sospende la lettura (1525-1526)
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Uomo che sospende la lettura (Portrait of a man with a book) 1525–1526 Oil on poplar, 67.5 × 53 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The stranger has paused while reading and now seems to be indulging in his own thoughts. His…
Mariana (1851)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…
Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) 1850 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 41.9 cm Tate Britain, London