Michelangelo (1475-1564) Battaglia dei centauri (Battle of the Centaurs) 1490–1492 Marble bas-relief, 84.5 x 88 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The earliest mention of the Battle of the Centaurs is to be found in a letter written in…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le mal du pays (Homesickness) c.1948 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 45.5 x 35.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2013 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Golconde (Golconda) 1953 Oil on canvas, 80 × 100.3 cm Menil Collection, Houston See also: • Golconda (India)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1543 Oil on canvas, 242 x 361 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Signature: Referenced bottom center of the note: TITIANVS EQVES CES F. 1543 The scene was rarely depicted in Italy, but is probably explained by the Flemish origin…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Un Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans (A Cotton Office in New Orleans) 1873 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau See also: • New Orleans, LA (USA)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Jeune Homme en costume de majo (Young Man in Costume of Majo) 1863 Oil on canvas, 188 x 124.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York For this image of one of the dashing young Spaniards known as…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Déjeuner dans l’atelier (Luncheon in the Studio) 1868 Oil on canvas, 118.3 x 154 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich The title of the painting, “Le déjeuner dans l’atelier”, distracts from the fact that this is a portrait of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Déjeuner (Luncheon) 1875 Oil on canvas, 49.2 x 60 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The boater hat hanging on the chair tells us that this couple is probably taking a break from a canoe trip. By the late 19th…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple. Le 28 juillet 1830 (Liberty Leading the People. July 28, 1830) 1830 Oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Other title: Une Barricade (A Barricade) Inscription: “Eug. Delacroix.1830” (in…