(1813–1883) Wilhelm Richard Wagner Works: • Das Rheingold (The Ring of the Nibelung) (1869) • Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (1843) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) (1868) • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) (1870) • Götterdämmerung…
(1911–1979) Giovanni Rota Rinaldi Works: • 8½ (1963) • Amarcord (1973) • Boccaccio 70 (1962) • Death on the Nile (1978) • Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) • I Clowns (1971) • Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) • Il Gattopardo…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme espagnole avec guitare (Young Spanish Woman with Guitar) 1898 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks sits facing our right…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (Daughters of Catulle Mendès) 1888 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hoping to recapture the success he had achieved with Madame Georges Charpentier and Her…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Musical Company 1626 Oil on panel, 63.5 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The subject of this painting is a mystery: is it an exhortation to praise God through singing and string music, or a scene of seduction with…
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Gloria di san Mercuriale (Glory of Saint Mercurial) c.1642–1644 Oil on canvas, 410 x 231 Pinacoteca Civica, Forlì
Guercino (1591-1666) L’estasi di San Francesco (The Ecstasy of St. Francis) c.1620–1621 Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Guercino (1591-1666) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1624 Oil on canvas, diameter 68.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di santa Chiara (Vision of St Clare) 1615–1621 Oil on canvas, 50 x 37.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Guercino (1591-1666) Santa Cecilia (Saint Cecilia) 1649 Oil on canvas, 121.6 x 100.4 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Saint Cecilia was a third-century Roman martyr according to the Christian tradition. Cecilia undertook a religious vow to remain a virgin, promising…