Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) c.1496 Oil on wood, 215 × 170.2 cm National Gallery, London The focus of this large altarpiece is the tiny infant Christ – he lies on the ground, his head supported…
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Visione di san Girolamo (Vision of Saint Jerome) 1526–1527 Oil on poplar, 342.9 x 148.6 cm National Gallery, London This altarpiece is the greatest work that Parmigianino painted in Rome. It was commissioned by Maria Bufolina for a burial…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Female Nude) 1844–1845 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ninfa e pastore (Nymph and shepherd) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 149.6 × 187 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Alpha and Omega 1908–1909 Lithograph on paper, 25.8 × 46.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le Repos (Rest) 1879 Oil on fabric, 164.5 x 117.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland One of the most celebrated academic painters of his time, Bouguereau underscores the moral virtues of the Italian peasants in this painting…
Prins, Pierre-Ernest (1838-1913) Manet sur son lit de mort (Manet on His Deathbed) 1883 Pastel, 32.4 × 46 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Souvenirs (Memories) 1840 Hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic on buff paper, 26.8 × 81 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nevermore 1897 Oil paint on canvas, 60.5 x 116 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Tahiti (French Polynesia)