Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror 1613–1614 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Venus at the Mirror (1613-1614)
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Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
The Woman with the Tamborine
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Woman with the Tamborine s.d. Etching, 17.78 x 26.03 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo
Eve, après la faute (1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve, après la faute (Eve, After the Fall) 1881 (cast executed 1913) Bronze, 172.72 x 53.34 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Auguste Rodin was deeply inspired by tradition, yet rebelled against idealized forms. He introduced…
Reclining Figure (1935-1936)
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Reclining Figure 1935–1936 Elm wood, 48.26 x 93.34 x 44.45 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1924 Henry Moore began exploring the theme of the reclining figure, and he eventually began seeing parallels between the motif and…
Manaò tupapaú (1892)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Susanna (1636)
Les Grandes Baigneuses (c.1894-1905)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les Grandes Baigneuses (Bathers) c.1894–1905 Oil on canvas, 127.2 x 196.1 cm National Gallery, London Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. The earliest dates from…
La mort de Sardanapale (1844)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia The subject of this painting was inspired by Lord Byron‘s dramatic poem of 1821 about the life of an…
Mermaid (1896)
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Mermaid 1896 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 552.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Edvard Munch painted Mermaid during an extended stay in Paris in 1896–97, upon receiving a commission for a large-scale decorative work from Axel Heiberg, a…