Giorgione (c.1477-1510) La Tempesta (The Tempest) c.1503–1509 Oil on canvas, 73 x 82 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Attested as part of Gabriele Vendramin’s collection by Marcantonio Michiel in 1530 and later in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century family inventories, The Tempest…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) El joven de la estilográfica (Young Man with a Fountain Pen) 1914 Oil on canvas, 79.5 × 63.5 cm Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de hombre (Portrait of a Man) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The pragmatic of January 1623 that dictated a new dress code and has since been used to date…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil (The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 60 x 98.4 cm Private collection Two men are standing by a sunlit river, as boats pass by, with a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La balançoire (The Swing) 1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris From 1877 to 1894: in the Gustave Caillebotte collection 1894: accepted by the State as a legacy of Gustave Caillebotte A young…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris 1872 Oil on canvas, 75.3 x 93.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir‘s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to…