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,…
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…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Reclining Nude 1950 Bronze, 20.3 x 44.8 x 12.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Betsabea (Bathsheba) c.1636–1637 Oil on canvas, 265.4 x 209.5 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Sea Maidens 1885–1886 Oil on canvas, 81.8 x 142.8 cm De Morgan Collection
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Little Sea Maid 1880–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.2 x 73.4 cm De Morgan Collection
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)
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…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In classical mythology, Pandora was a supremely beautiful woman created by the gods and sent to Earth to live among mortals. Redon…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Madonna (Loving Woman, Conception) 1895 Lithograph, 60.1 x 44.4 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv