Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Renard dans la neige (Fox in the Snow) 1860 Oil on canvas, 85.73 x 127.95 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Courbet’s Fox in the Snow depicts the animal mauling its prey, the rodent’s blood spilling onto…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family with St Anne 1640 Oil on panel, 41 x 34 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Christian meaning of the painting has often been obliterated in favor of a purely secular interpretation: for example at…