Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Costanza Alidosi (Portrait of Costanza Alidosi) c.1595 Oil on canvas 157.48 x 119.39 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Lavinia Fontana depicted the Bolognese noblewoman Costanza Alidosi seated in a sparsely, yet…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) La diseuse de bonne aventure (The fortune teller) 1869 Oil on canvas 61 x 46 cm Private collection
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Persée et la Gorgone (Perseus and the Gorgon) c.1897 Marble, 196 x 111 x 90 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine “It’s Medusa!” “It’s Percy Jackson!” As soon as they catch sight of Perseus and the Gorgon, a marble…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Aurore (Aurora) c.1900 Bronze, 32 x 27 x 31 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Auguste Rodin c.1884–1885 Bronze, 40 x 25 x 28 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine For the only portrait she sculpted of Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel adopted a style close to the works of her elder, so much so that…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Jeune Romain ou Mon Frère (Young Roman or My Brother) c.1882 Patinated plaster, 51.5 x 45 x 28 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine Camille Claudel had probably just arrived in Paris when she sculpted this portrait of…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Auguste Rodin 1892 Bronze, 40 x 24.6 x 28 cm Musée Rodin, Paris See also: • Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Busto di papa Gregorio XV (Bust of Pope Gregory XV) 1621 Marble, 83.2 × 62.3 × 32.4 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Gregorius XV, Pope (1554-1623)
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) ‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Part II) 1915 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.7 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Corpus (The Crucified Christ) c.1650 Bronze, 174 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto