Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Vue panoramique sur les Alpes, Les Dents du Midi (Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi) 1877 Oil on fabric, 151.2 x 210.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This late, unfinished painting reveals some of…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le Velino, la Sortie du Lac de Papigno (The Vélino at the exit of Lake Papigno) 1826 Oil on paper on canvas, 24 x 39.2 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo See also: • Terni (Italia)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Près du lac (Near the Lake) 1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 47.5 × 56.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
(1845–1886) Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm King of Bavaria (1864–1886) Ludwig in Film: Ludwig 1972 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider Born August 25 1845 Nymphenburg Palace, Munich (Germany) Died June 13 1886 Starnberger See (Germany) Cause of death…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Il sogno del cavaliere (Vision of a Knight) c.1504 Oil on poplar, 17.1 x 17.3 cm National Gallery, London This painting was inspired by a passage in the Punica, an epic poem by Silius Italicus (AD 25–101) recounting the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) 1515–1516 Oil on canvas, 118 x 278 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This work was probably sold to Scipione Borghese in 1608 by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati. A veritable interpretative enigma, critics…
