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Portrait de Valentine Tessier (1933)

Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Portrait de Valentine Tessier (Portrait of Valentine Tessier) 1933 Oil on canvas, 80.9 x 64.9 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Tessier, Valentine (1892-1981)

Nu (Renoir)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu (Nude) s.d. Oil on canvas, 113.2 x 85.3 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone

Adam (1880-1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…

Eve (1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…

L’Âge d’airain (1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…

San Girolamo penitente (1556-1561)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1556–1561 Oil on canvas, 235 x 125 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was made for the altar of Santa Maria Nuova, in Venice, around the mid-1550s; it arrived in Brera…