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…
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…
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…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Pan and Syrinx 1617 Oil on panel, 33 x 43 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Les Poseuses (The Models) 1886–1888 Oil on canvas, 200 x 249.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In this scene set inside the artist’s studio, Seurat depicts models posing in front of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86;…
El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les baigneuses (The Bathers) c.1890–1895 Pastel and charcoal on paper, 142.24 x 144.14 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Edgar Degas created this monumental bather composition in the mid-1890s, probably after he had seen the great Cézanne…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse (The Bather) c.1880–1881 Chalk on paper mounted on board, 84.535 x 65.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This is among the most important surviving drawings by Renoir. It relates, without question, to the famous…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Trois Femmes et nature morte, Déjeuner (Three Women and Still Life) 1920 Oil on canvas, 74.3 × 92.08 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The monumental bodies of Three Women and Still Life (Déjeuner) are composed of…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Nus dans la forêt (Nudes in the forest) 1909–1911 Oil on canvas, 120.5 × 170.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Distinctive cubist style Fernand Léger had trained as an architect, but soon switches to painting. He admires Paul…