Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Raboteurs de parquet (Floor Scrapers) 1875 Oil on canvas, 102 x 147 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris This painting is one of the first representations of urban proletariat. Whereas peasants (Gleaners by Millet) or country workers (Stone Breakers by…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de l’artiste (Self-portrait) c.1892 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 191 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique. Both the subject matter and its depiction explain the scandal…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani (Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 114.62 x 94.62 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Ginevra Aldrovandi’s husband, the Bolognese senator Ercole Hercolani, died in 1593. Her elaborate mourning costume-with costly…
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) Ritratto di nobildonna (Portrait of a Noblewoman) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 88.9 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Marriage Portrait of a Bolognese Noblewoman (Livia de’ Medici Bandini?) illustrates Lavinia Fontana’s ability to…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Autoritratto alla spinetta (Self-portrait at the spinet) 1577 Oil on canvas, 27 x 23.8 cm Accademia di San Luca, Roma Inscription: LAVINIA VIRGO PROSPERI FONTANAE FILIA EX SPECULO IMMAGINEM ORIS SUI EXPRESSIT ANNO MDLXXVII (Lavinia, virgin, daughter of…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Minerva in atto di abbigliarsi (Minerva Dressing) 1613 Oil on canvas, 258 x 190 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work, which dates back to 1613, was painted in Rome, evoked here through the dome of St. Peter’s visible…
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe (1526-1593) Il Cuoco (The Cook) c.1570 Oil on wood, 52.5 x 41 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm “Reversible head” which allows for a dual interpretation when turned upside-down.
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Corpus Hypercubus (Crucifixion) 1954 Oil on canvas, 194.3 x 123.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dalí utilized his theory of “nuclear mysticism,” a fusion of Catholicism, mathematics, and science, to create this unusual interpretation of Christ’s…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Nature Morte Vivante (Living Still Life) 1956 Oil on canvas, 125 x 160 cm Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg