Tag: landscape

Paysage tahitien (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage tahitien (Tahitian Landscape) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 47.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although the authorship of this picture was once questioned, cleaning and reexamination have securely demonstrated that it is one…

La Sieste (c.1892-1894)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) La Sieste (The Siesta) c.1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The unaffected grace and communal ease of Tahitian women impressed Gauguin enormously. The artist worked on this painting over…

Veduta di Pirna dalla fortezza di Sonnenstein (1750s)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Veduta di Pirna dalla fortezza di Sonnenstein (View of Pirna from the Sonnenstein Castle) 1750s Oil on canvas, 136 × 237 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Pirna in Sassonia 1763 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford…

Vaprio d’Adda (1744)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Vaprio d’Adda 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of…

Pirna, Obertor dal Sud (mid-1750s)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Pirna, Obertor dal Sud (Pirna: The Obertor from the South) mid-1750s Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew and student who himself was to become an internationally…

La fortezza di Königstein (1756-1758)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) La fortezza di Königstein (The Fortress of Königstein) 1756–1758 Oil on canvas, 133 x 235.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the distance, a fortress sits on a rocky plateau below a sky filled with lightly…

Cristo nella casa di Marta e Maria (1605)

Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Cristo nella casa di Marta e Maria (Christ in the House of Martha and Mary) 1605 Oil on poplar, 125 x 118 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the stone at the right side of the well:…