Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Retrato de Diego Rivera (Portrait of Diego Rivera) 1937 Oil on wood, 46 x 32 cm Private collection See also: • Rivera, Diego
Retrato de Diego Rivera (1937)
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Pensando en la Muerte (1943)
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Pensando en la Muerte (Thinking about Death) 1943 Oil on canvas on masonite, 45.1 x 36.8 cm Private collection
Autorretrato con mono (1938)
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Autorretrato con mono (Self-Portrait with Monkey) 1938 Oil on masonite, 40.64 x 30.48 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Frida Kahlo’s story is one of both tragedy and perseverance. Kahlo contracted polio at the age of six. The disease…
Noli me Tangere (1526-1528)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Noli me Tangere 1526–1528 Oil on oak panel, 76.7 x 95.8 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London When the diarist John Evelyn saw this painting in Charles II’s Private Lodgings at Whitehall in 1680 he recorded…
Erasmus (1523)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus 1523 Oil on wood, 73.6 x 51.4 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Longford Castle collection, © Longford Castle Collection Erasmus (1466/9 – 1536) was one of the most famous writers of his day…
Portrait of Henry VIII of England (c.1537)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of Henry VIII of England c.1537 Oil on panel, 28 x 20 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portraiture was the most popular genre in sixteenth-century England, and indeed one of the few available to artists following the…
San Francisco rezando (1638-1639)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco rezando (Saint Francis in Prayer) c.1638–1639 Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 90.2 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena St. Francis of Assisi, a mystic and poet, was also the founder of the Franciscans, an important mendicant…
Femme en costume de ville (c.1879)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme en costume de ville (Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
La Parisienne (1883)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Parisienne (A Parisian Lady) 1883 Oil on canvas, 192 x 125 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm This painting shows the actress Ellen André as a Parisienne, who lived and moved in the modern commercial city. Socially, she was often a…
Louis Gauthier-Lathuille (1879)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Louis Gauthier-Lathuille 1879 Pastel on canvas, 54 x 45.7 cm Private collection See also: • Gauthier-Lathuille, Louis