Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed) 1859 Oil on panel, 32.1 x 27 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fanny Cornforth (1835-1909), born Sarah Cox in Sussex, England, modelled frequently for Rossetti, becoming not only his…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1882 Oil on canvas, 78.7 cm × 39.2 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1874 Tate Britain, London Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1878 Private collection See also:…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1878 Pencil and watercolor on paper mounted on a wood, 77.5 cm × 37.5 cm Private collection Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1874 Tate Britain, London Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1882…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1874 Oil on canvas, 125.1 cm × 61 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1878 Private collection Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1882 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham …
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ragazzo che beve (Boy Drinking) 1582–1583 Oil on canvas, 55.8 x 43.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Together with his brother Agostino and cousin Lodovico, Annibale Carracci introduced artistic reforms in Italy based on close observation of…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Jane Seymour c.1536–1537 Oil on oak, 65.5 × 47 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Holbein became court painter to Henry VIII of England in 1536. Among the first of his paintings in the service of the King was…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Large Self-Portrait 1652 Oil on canvas, 112 × 81.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The self-portrait is of particular importance in Rembrandt‘s work. In total, the artist created over sixty painted self-portraits, which document not only his personal circumstances but…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman 1505 Spruce, 33 × 24.5 × 2.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the top in the middle with the monogram, dat. 1505 We don’t know who the charming young lady is,…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…