Tag: London

Simon Callow

(1949) Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE Filmography as Actor: Amadeus 1984 Director: Miloš Forman Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham     A Room with a View 1985 Director: James Ivory Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands     Shakespeare in Love 1998 Director: John Madden…

Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (c.1594-1595)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (Boy bitten by a Lizard) c.1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm National Gallery, London An effeminate youth with curling locks, full lips and a rose tucked behind one ear, recoils in surprise at…

Cena in Emmaus (1601)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Cena in Emmaus (Supper at Emmaus) 1601 Oil and tempera on canvas, 141 × 196.2 cm National Gallery, London On the third day after the Crucifixion two of Jesus’s disciples were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. On the road they…

Dido building Carthage (1815)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…

Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…

National Gallery (London)

Established: 1824 Location: Trafalgar Square, London WC2 Website: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The National Gallery in…

Tate Britain

Established: 1897 as National Gallery of British Art; became Tate Britain in 2000 Location: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Website: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…

Joseph Mallord William Turner

(1775–1851) The artist’s works: The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli c.1794–1797 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Self-Portrait c.1799 Tate Britain, London Copy of Poussin’s Landscape 1799 Tate Britain, London Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Tate Britain, London Mars and Venus, after Guercino…