Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) c.1882 Marble, 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm Musée Rodin, Paris
Le Baiser (c.1882)
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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…
Pietà (1563)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…
Pan and Syrinx (1617)
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Pan and Syrinx 1617 Oil on panel, 33 x 43 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Madonna Greca (c.1465-1470)
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna Greca (The Greek Madonna) c.1465–1470 Oil on panel, 84 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The so-called ‘Greek Madonna’ by Giovanni Bellini takes its nickname from the Greek μήτηρ Θεού, seen at the top of…
Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (1913)
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 121.3 x 88.9 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Futurists’ celebration of the fast pace and mechanical…
Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini (1616-1617)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini (Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children) c.1616–1617 Marble, 132.4 x 73.7 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The complex composition of intertwined figures, skillfully carved…
Les Poseuses (1886-1888)
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Les Poseuses (The Models) 1886–1888 Oil on canvas, 200 x 249.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In this scene set inside the artist’s studio, Seurat depicts models posing in front of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86;…
Les baigneuses (1890-1895)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les baigneuses (The Bathers) c.1890–1895 Pastel and charcoal on paper, 142.24 x 144.14 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Edgar Degas created this monumental bather composition in the mid-1890s, probably after he had seen the great Cézanne…
Groupe de danseuses (1895-1897)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Groupe de danseuses (Group of Dancers) c.1895–1897 Pastel on panel, 32.39 × 40.96 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This enigmatic drawing on panel has never before been published. The stamps and numbers on the verso indicate…