Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (Boy bitten by a Lizard) c.1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm National Gallery, London An effeminate youth with curling locks, full lips and a rose tucked behind one ear, recoils in surprise at…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (Boy bitten by a Lizard) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 65.8 x 52.3 cm Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Firenze
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Bacchino malato, Autoritratto in veste di Bacco (Sick Bacchus, Self-portrait as Bacchus) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 67 x 53 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Like the Giovane con canestra di frutta [Young Man with a Basket of Fruit] (inv. 136), this…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Giovane con canestra di frutta (Boy with a basket of fruit) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 70 x 67 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The canvas comes from the group of works confiscated in 1607 from Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavalier…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sacrificio di Isacco (Sacrifice of Isaac) c.1603 Oil on canvas, 104 x 135 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The painting illustrates the Old Testament passage in which God subjected Abraham to an extraordinary test of obedience by ordering him to…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 91.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Castelnau-le-Lez (France) | Des Hours, Thérèse
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Fleurs (Flowers) 1868 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble Coming from a large Protestant family in Montpellier, Frédéric Bazille was destined for a career as a doctor. However, in 1862 he entered Gleyre’s studio…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) La Négresse aux pivoines (African Woman with Peonies) 1870 Oil on canvas 60.50 x 75.40 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Réunion de famille (Family Reunion) 1867–1868 Oil on canvas 152 x 230 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Before his early death in battle during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, Frédéric Bazille was close to Renoir and Monet, particularly admiring their…