Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (Judith with the Head of Holofernes) 1504 Oil on canvas, 144 cm x 68 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Giorgione‘s work largely determined the development of 16th-century Venetian painting. There are but…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Tramonto (The Sunset) 1506–1510 Oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 91.4 cm National Gallery, London The meaning of this scene, which takes place in a rocky landscape at sunset or sunrise, is difficult to decipher, largely because…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ritratto d’uomo Terris (Portrait of a Man) 1506 Oil on panel, 30.16 cm x 25.72 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Sacra Famiglia Benson (The Holy Family) c.1500 Oil on panel transferred to hardboard, 37.3 x 45.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man and a young woman holding an infant are seated together in the center…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Laura 1506 Canvas on (old) spruce wood, 41 × 33.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The young lady in a red, fur-lined coat, named after the laurel (lauro) that entails her, is, with the exception of the “Vanitas” in…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) La Tempesta (The Tempest) c.1503–1509 Oil on canvas, 73 x 82 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Attested as part of Gabriele Vendramin’s collection by Marcantonio Michiel in 1530 and later in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century family inventories, The Tempest…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Self-Portrait 1906 Oil on canvas, 69.8 × 53 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The famous collection of artists’ self-portraits housed in the Vasari Corridor in Florence, which links the Uffizi Gallery with the Palazzo Pitti, goes…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Il gatto nero (The Black Cat) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 54.4 x 73 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Gino Severini was affiliated with the Italian Futurists, an avant-garde movement inspired by transformations in the urban landscape.…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Ballerina = Elica = Mare (Dancer = Propeller = Sea) 1915 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like other artists associated with Italian Futurism, Severini was fascinated by the interactions…