Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (Virgin and Child, with Two Angels) c.1500 Oil on panel, diameter 96.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (c.1500)
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The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel (c.1630s)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel c.1630s Oil on panel, 38.7 x 47.6 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Le Baptême du Christ (1641-1642)
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Baptême du Christ (The Baptism of Christ) 1641–1642 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Although Nicolas Poussin‘s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected…
Madonna col Bambino (c.1508)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1508 Oil on wood, 45.7 x 55.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dating to about 1508, this devotional painting is one of Titian’s earliest and shows the artist experimenting with ways to…
Baigneuse dans les bois (1895)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…
Los segadores (1907)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Los segadores (The Harvesters) 1907 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid Like other painters in his circle, Picasso was keen to find new techniques that would enable him to handle…
Nue arrangeant ses cheveux (c.1916)
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nue arrangeant ses cheveux (Nude Arranging Her Hair) c.1916 Oil on canvasboard, 104.77 x 75.24 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Suzanne Valadon painted female nudes throughout her career and was one of only a few…
Mother’s Kiss (1890-1891)
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Mother’s Kiss 1890–1891 Drypoint and aquatint on paper, 34.92 x 22.86 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington A prolific and innovative printmaker, Mary Cassatt created Mother’s Kiss as one of a series of 10 color prints…
The Bath (1891)
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Bath 1891 Soft-ground etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 31.43 x 24.44 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington In 1890, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris held a large-scale exhibition of Japanese prints that…
Femme nue se baissant (1923)
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Femme nue se baissant (Nude Bending Down) 1923 Oil on canvas, 57.1 × 52.7 cm Tate Britain, London A woman is glimpsed quietly wiping her leg. The informality of the pose suggests that the model has been caught unawares…