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La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien (1822)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien (Reclining Venus of Urbino, after Titian) 1822 Oil on canvas, 116 x 168 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere di Urbino 1538 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze    

L’âge d’or (1862)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’âge d’or (The Golden Age) 1862 Oil on paper mounted on panel, 46.4 x 61.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA

Madonna della Seggiola (c.1512)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair) c.1512 Oil on wood, diameter 71 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Mary is seen from the side, seated on a ‘chamber chair’, a type of seat reserved for the high dignitaries of the papal…

La grande odalisque (1814)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Une odalisque, dite La grande odalisque (An Odalisque, called The Great Odalisque) 1814 Oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Naked woman, 3/4 face surrounded by a turban tied at the nape…

Oedipe explique l’énigme du sphinx (1808)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Oedipe explique l’énigme du sphinx (Oedipus explains the enigma of the Sphinx) 1808 Oil on canvas, 189 x 144 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Interior of a cave; naked Oedipus standing in profile with one foot…

Desnudo sentado (1930)

Siqueiros, David Alfaro (1896-1974) Desnudo sentado (Seated Nude) 1930 Lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper, 54.3 × 32.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Au cirque (1899)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au cirque (At the Circus) 1899 Crayon, pastel, and watercolor on wove paper, 25.1 × 35.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Depicted here is a scene from the ballet Papa Chrysantheme performed in 1892 at the…

Visione di san Girolamo (1526-1527)

Parmigianino (1503-1540) Visione di san Girolamo (Vision of Saint Jerome) 1526–1527 Oil on poplar, 342.9 x 148.6 cm National Gallery, London This altarpiece is the greatest work that Parmigianino painted in Rome. It was commissioned by Maria Bufolina for a burial…