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L’Implorante (1898)

Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Implorante (The Implorer) modeled 1898, cast c.1905 Bronze, 27.9 × 36.8 × 21.3 cm, 5.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Camille Claudel, Rodin’s most brilliant student, was consumed by her twelve-year affair with the sculptor. In…

L’Abandon (c.1886)

Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Abandon (Abandonment) c.1886 Bronze, 42.3 x 39.1 x 20.5 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine

Hilando (1936)

Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Hilando (Weaving) 1936 Tempera and oil on canvas, 66 × 106.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Laboring at a backstrap loom in this painting is Luz Jiménez, a master weaver and Nahua, one of the largest Indigenous…

Saint Anne with donor (c.1514)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Saint Anne with donor (Interior right wing) c.1514 Oil on panel, 85 x 30.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the…

Saint Elizabeth with donor (c.1514)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Saint Elizabeth with donor (Interior left wing) c.1514 Oil on panel, 85 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most…

San Francisco medita sobre la muerte (1600-1610)

El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco medita sobre la muerte (Saint Francis Meditating on Death) 1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 106 x 66 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco y el hermano León meditando sobre la muerte…