El Greco (1541-1614) La Agonía en el huerto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1590–1595 Oil on canvas, 102.2 x 113.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo With his intensely personal style, El Greco (“the Greek”) is one of the most original…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Ville entière (The Entire City) 1934 Oil on paper on canvas, 50.2 × 61.3 cm Tate Britain, London A crumbling city looms oppressively below the ring-shaped moon. Ernst made a whole series of such works. The imagery may…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Lune en bouteille (Moon in a Bottle) 1955 Oil on canvas, 60 × 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London After an eight-year exile in the USA, where he settled in Arizona, Ernst began to visit Europe in 1949. He…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Orion aveugle à la recherche du soleil levant (Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun) 1658 Oil on canvas, 119.1 x 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Classical myth provided Poussin with a pretext for one…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Helen of Troy 1898 Oil on canvas, 124 x 73.8 cm De Morgan Collection In Greek mythology, Helen was the daughter of Zeus (King of the Gods) and Leda (a human). Legend has it that Helen (the…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Love’s Passing 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 71.76 x 109.86 cm De Morgan Collection This painting is an allegory for the passing of time and the life cycle. The lovers in the foreground sit listening to the piping…