Tag: Italia

Tarquinio e Lucrezia (1578-1580)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Tarquinio e Lucrezia (Tarquin and Lucretia) 1578–1580 Oil on canvas, 175 × 151.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago According to Roman history, the rape of the virtuous matron Lucretia by Tarquin, son of the king of Rome,…

Festival a Montmartre (1913)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Festival a Montmartre (Festival in Montmartre) 1913 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 116.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Gino Severini was a member of the Futurists, a group of Italian artists that announced its existence with a manifesto…

Autoritratto (1909)

Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1909 Pastel on gray wove paper, 50 × 29.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Beata Beatrix (1871-1872)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 87.5 × 69.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Inscribed top left on frame: JUN: DIE 9 ANNO 1290; top right on frame: QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!; and bottom of frame: MART:…

Mano destra alzata (1518-1520)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Mano destra alzata (Upraised Right Hand, with Palm Facing Outward: Study for Saint Peter) 1518–1520 Black chalk on cream laid paper, 28.6 × 19.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The traditional attribution for Raphael of this long overlooked…

Madam Pompadour (1915)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Madam Pompadour 1915 Oil on canvas, 61.1 × 50.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Born of Jewish parents in the Italian coastal town of Leghorn, Amedeo Modigliani settled in Paris in 1906, where he developed friendships with Pablo…

Charles Gounod (1841)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Charles Gounod 1841 Graphite on ivory wove paper, 29.9 x 23.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Gounod, Charles (1818-1893) | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)

Charles Gounod

(1818–1893) Charles-François Gounod Works: • Faust (1859) • Mireille (1864) • Roméo et Juliette (1867) • Inno e Marcia Pontificale (1869) • Marche funèbre d’une marionnette (1872) • Petite Symphonie (1885) • La Reine de Saba (1862) Gounod in Art:…