El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1600–1610 Oil on canvas, 193 x 116 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland El Greco (Spanish for “the Greek”) was trained on his native island, Crete, as a painter of…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on wood, 60 x 48.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified,…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) L’Auteur fumant, à mi-corps (The author smoking, half-length) 1897 Etching, drypoint and roulette, 34.6 × 24.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco recibiendo los estigmas (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) 1585–1590 Oil on canvas, 102.24 × 96.84 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Jeune fille chrétienne (Young Christian Girl) 1894 Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 46.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Bretagne (France)
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Portrait du docteur Gachet (Portrait of Dr. Gachet) 1890 Oil on canvas, 67 cm × 56 cm Private Collection, Tokyo F753-JH2007 Compare with the 2nd version: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Le docteur Paul Gachet 1890 Musée d’Orsay, Paris …
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Portrait de Dora Maar (Portrait of Dora Maar) 1937 Oil on canvas, 92 × 65 cm Musée Picasso, Paris See also: • Maar, Dora (1907-1997)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La crucifixión (The Crucifixion) 1627 Oil on canvas, 290.3 × 165.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church clarified and reaffirmed its doctrine and practices in an effort to…