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…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Pan and Syrinx 1617 Oil on panel, 33 x 43 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Sleepy Baby c.1910 Pastel on paper, 64.77 x 52.07 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Beginning in the 1880s, Mary Cassatt began to investigate themes of mothers and children. This intensely intimate, tightly cropped scene alternates between…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le cycliste (The Bicyclist) 1951 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 97.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Straddling a bicycle, a sturdy woman stands still. One foot rests on the right pedal, the other on the…