Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Penseur (The Thinker) 1903–1904 Bronze, 189 x 98 x 140 cm Musée Rodin, Paris
Le Penseur (1903-1904)
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Adam (1880-1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…
Eve (1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…
L’Âge d’airain (1876)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…
Le Baiser (c.1882)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) c.1882 Marble, 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm Musée Rodin, Paris
Jeune femme se baignant (1888)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme se baignant (Young Woman Bathing) 1888 Oil on canvas, 85 x 66 cm Private collection
Allegoria dei pianeti e dei continenti (1752)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Allegoria dei pianeti e dei continenti (Allegory of the Planets and Continents) 1752 Oil on canvas, 185.4 x 139.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The canvas, which is among Tiepolo‘s largest and most dazzling oil…
L’Olimpo, Trionfo di Venere (1761-1764)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Olimpo, o Trionfo di Venere (The Olympus or Triumph of Venus) 1761–1764 Oil on canvas, 87 x 61.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a sketch for a no-longer extant painting on canvas intended to decorate…
Morte di Cleopatra (1660-1662)
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) 1660–1662 Oil on canvas, 120 x 158 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra c.1645–1655 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di…
Pan and Syrinx (1617)
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Pan and Syrinx 1617 Oil on panel, 33 x 43 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano