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Self-Portrait (1911)

Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1911 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 51.4 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Egon Schiele‘s career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight,…

Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (1570s)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (Mars and Venus United by Love) 1570s Oil on canvas, 205.7 x 161 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The love between Mars, the god of war, and Venus, the goddess of…

Cadmus and Harmonia (1877)

De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Cadmus and Harmonia 1877 Oil on canvas, 148.5 x 89.5 cm De Morgan Collection The subject of the painting is from Ovid‘s ‘Metamorphoses‘ (Book IV, 563–603). See also: • Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD)

Venere e Cupido (1520s)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) 1520s Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 111.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In his inimitable fashion, in this unique masterpiece Lorenzo Lotto takes one of the most popular subjects of Venetian…

La mort de Socrate (1787)

David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) 1787 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 196.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this landmark of Neoclassical painting from the years immediately preceding the French Revolution, David took up…

La mort de Sénèque (1773)

David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Sénèque (The Death of Seneca) 1773 Oil on canvas, 123 x 160 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus minor (4 BC-65 AD)

Nu couché (1922)

Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1922 Oil on canvas, 40.96 × 57.79 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee