Michelangelo (1475-1564) Bacco (Bacchus) 1496–1497 Marble, h. 207 cm Museo del Bargello, Firenze Detail of satyr eating grapes.
Bacco (1496-1497)
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Battaglia dei centauri (1490-1492)
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Battaglia dei centauri (Battle of the Centaurs) 1490–1492 Marble bas-relief, 84.5 x 88 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1855)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1855 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 45.72 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris …
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (c.1859)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two versions by Manet of Delacroix‘s celebrated painting…
La Nymphe surprise (1861)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Nymphe surprise (The Surprised Nymph) 1861 Oil on canvas, 144.5 x 112.5 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Étude pour La nymphe surprise 1861 Private collection Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Nymphe surprise…
Diane chasseresse (1867)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Diane chasseresse (Diana) 1867 Oil on canvas, 199.5 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir wrote that he had produced this painting as a study of a nude, the sort of exercise that was a mainstay of…
Andromède (1852)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Andromède (Andromeda) 1852 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 24.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dante et Virgile aux enfers (1822)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers, dit aussi La Barque de Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell, or The Barque of Dante) 1822 Oil on canvas, 189 x 241.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Purchased by the Directorate of…
Venus del Espejo (1647-1651)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Venus del Espejo (Venus at her Mirror, The Rokeby Venus) 1647–1651 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving female nude painted by Velázquez. The subject was rare in seventeenth-century Spain,…
Las hilanderas, o La fábula de Aracne (1655-1660)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las hilanderas, o La fábula de Aracne (The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne) 1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 220 x 289 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting is the result of two acts carried out in…