Tag: light

Ritratto di Agnolo Doni (1505-1506)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Agnolo Doni (Portrait of Agnolo Doni) 1505–1506 Oil on panel, 65 x 47.7 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze On the back there is a representation in monochrome of the Deluge. Pair: Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Maddalena Doni 1505–1506…

Tondo Doni (1505-1506)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Tondo Doni (The Holy Family) 1505–1506 Tempera grassa on wood, diameter 120 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Michelangelo painted this Holy Family for a Florentine merchant, Agnolo Doni, whose prestigious marriage to Maddalena Strozzi in 1504 took place in…

La trahison des images (1929)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) 1929 Oil on canvas, 60.33 x 81.12 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles © René Magritte Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Le faux miroir (1929)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le faux miroir (The False Mirror) 1929 Oil on canvas, 54 x 80.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A huge, isolated eye stares out at…

La condition humaine (1933)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1933 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 x 1.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two of Magritte‘s favored themes were the “window painting” and the “painting within a painting.” The Human Condition…

L’Empire des lumières, II (1950)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Empire des lumières, II (The Empire of Light, II) 1950 Oil on canvas, 78.8 x 99.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Golconde (1953)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Golconde (Golconda) 1953 Oil on canvas, 80 × 100.3 cm Menil Collection, Houston See also: • Golconda (India)