Tag: marble

Spring (1894)

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Spring 1894 Oil on canvas, 178.4 × 80.3 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles

A Young Man at Prayer (c.1475)

Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) A Young Man at Prayer c.1475 Oil on oak, 39 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London A pale young man, hands folded in prayer, is engaged in private devotions. The book is presumably a prayer book or a Book…

Sarah Bernhardt (c.1895)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Sarah Bernhardt c.1895 Tinted marble, 69 x 41 x 29 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)

San Giorgio (1416-1417)

Donatello (1386-1466) San Giorgio (Saint George) 1416–1417 Marble, 209 cm Museo del Bargello, Firenze Predella: Saint George killing the dragon and freeing the princess.

Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (c.1480)

Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (The Virgin and Child with Saint John) c.1480 Tempera on poplar, 59.1 x 43.8 cm National Gallery, London At the centre of this painting is the Virgin Mary, who covers almost its entire…

San Michele Arcangelo (1469)

Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) San Michele Arcangelo (Saint Michael the Archangel) completed 1469 Oil on poplar, 133 x 59.5 cm National Gallery, London The Archangel Michael led an army of angels to battle against the devil and cast him down from…

Poires (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Poires (Pears) 1880 Oil on canvas, 19.05 × 24.13 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal…