Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna adorante il Bambino che dorme (Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child) early 1460s Tempera on wood, 72.4 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Asleep beneath the solemn gaze of his mother, the Christ Child’s…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) late 1480s Oil on wood, 88.9 x 71.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Separated from our everyday world by a parapet, the Madonna nonetheless draws the viewer in with…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 54 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This early work by the Venetian painter, Giovanni Bellini, reveals the profound influence of…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le moissonneur (The Mower) 1881–1882 Oil on wood, 16.5 x 25.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le jardinier (The Gardener) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although Seurat is best known for his scenes of urban life, many of his paintings of 1881–84 depict rural…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue de la Seine (View of the Seine) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of Seurat’s career he made about seventy oil studies on small wood…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the Salon des Indépendants in 1888 Seurat demonstrated the versatility of his technique by exhibiting Circus Sideshow,…
El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Jerónimo (Saint Jerome as Scholar) c.1610 Oil on canvas, 108 x 89 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York El Greco executed at least five paintings of Saint Jerome. In this version, from the last years…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo abrazado a la cruz (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1577–1587 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During his long career in Spain, El Greco produced numerous paintings of Christ carrying…