Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Rissa in galleria (Riot in the Gallery) 1910 Oil on canvas, 74 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano After a period spent in Rome, the artist decided to move to Paris in 1906, driven by poverty and disillusioned…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Herbeux berge de rivière (Grassy Riverbank) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 × 40.64 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In 1881 and 1882, Georges Seurat spent hours along the shores of the River Seine, northwest of Paris.…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont d’Argenteuil (The Bridge at Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This painting raises some iconographic questions. Generally referred to as Argenteuil Bridge, the painting is…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Danseuse debout (Dancer Standing) c.1877 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 46 x 49.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) La Modiste (The Milliner) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia This effervescent painting of a young hatmaker strolling in the street was included in the first Futurist exhibition in Paris,…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Bachique danse (Bacchic Dance) 1906 Watercolor and pencil on paper, 49.5 x 64.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Battaglia dei centauri (Battle of the Centaurs) 1490–1492 Marble bas-relief, 84.5 x 88 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The earliest mention of the Battle of the Centaurs is to be found in a letter written in…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Nature Morte Vivante (Living Still Life) 1956 Oil on canvas, 125 x 160 cm Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Il Ratto di Proserpina (The Rape of Proserpina) 1621–1622 Marble, 255 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work portrays the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, god of the underworld. Narrated by both Claudian and Ovid, the myth tells…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne) 1622–1625 Carrara marble, h. 243 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Apollo here is depicted in the act of running, with his right foot touching the ground and his left raised; the garment…