Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Virgin and Child with two Angels 1480–1490 Oil on panel, 36 x 26 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin appears seated in a walled garden, an allusion to the hortus conclusus or enclosed garden, which symbolizes…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Siesta, or Pompeian Scene 1868 Oil on canvas, 130 x 369 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A domestic scene set in classical antiquity. An old man and a youth recline on divans while an attractive young woman…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Angelo musicante (Angel playing the lute) 1521 Oil on panel, 39.5 x 47 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963) Festival de musique de Menton (Menton Music Festival) 1956 Color lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Menton (France)
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Répétition du service (Rehearsing the Service) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London The French realist painter Legros moved to London in 1863, and from then exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo c.1777 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm National Gallery, London This unfinished portrait of Thomas Gainsborough’s youngest daughter, Margaret (1751–1820), playing a theorbo (a kind of lute) unites two particularly personal…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Bretonnes (Breton Women) s.d. Oil on canvas, 81 x 54 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bretagne (France)
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Saint Cecilia c.1900 Stained and painted glass, 213.5 x 75.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This window is the result of a collaboration between the Pre-Raphaelite painter Burne-Jones and the firm founded by William Morris, who initiated…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Oil on canvas, 279.4 × 650.2 cm Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce According to Thomas Malory‘s “Le Morte d’Arthur” (1470), King Arthur suffered a fatal wound in a…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Golden Stairs 1880 Oil on canvas, 269.2 x 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London This painting is an example of Burne-Jones’s interest in investigating a mood rather than telling a story. He deliberately made his pictures mysterious and…