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Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1520)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine) c.1520 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 23.5 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli Compare: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina 1510–1514 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit     Correggio (c.1489-1534) Matrimonio mistico…

Il ristoro miracoloso (1604-1605)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Il ristoro miracoloso (The miraculous refreshment) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 126 x 230.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The paintings in the chapel paid for by the Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera in the church of Santiago…

L’angoscia della partenza (1913-1914)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) L’angoscia della partenza (The Anguish of Departure) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 86.04 x 70.17 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In his own words, Giorgio de Chirico aspired “to live in the world as an immense museum of…

Le Canigou (1921)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Le Canigou 1921 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 100.33 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo This painting depicts the view from Juan Gris’s hotel window in the small town of Céret, in the Pyrenees; Le Canigou is one…

La Voix des airs (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Voix des airs (The Voice of Space) 1928 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 49.53 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Surrealist René Magritte is best known for creating unusual compositions that are wonderfully strange in their illustrative…