Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap 1645 Oil on wood, 60.3 x 52.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Flinck studied as a pupil in Rembrandt’s studio and, according to one early biographer, had so internalized his…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) c.1505 Oil on linden, 58.1 x 47 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture of Christ as Savior of the World, who raises his right hand in blessing and in…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) L’Auteur fumant, à mi-corps (The author smoking, half-length) 1897 Etching, drypoint and roulette, 34.6 × 24.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Léopold Zborowski 1916–1919 Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Before moving to Paris in 1906, Modigliani studied in the academies of Florence and Venice, in Italy. In the French capital, he…
Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam c.1795 Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, 42.5 x 52.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own nakedness and…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 142.24 x 101.6 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman), also referred to as The Reception, belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco recibiendo los estigmas (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) 1585–1590 Oil on canvas, 102.24 × 96.84 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore