Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) La Sieste (The Siesta) c.1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The unaffected grace and communal ease of Tahitian women impressed Gauguin enormously. The artist worked on this painting over…
(1919–1973) Alexander Crichlow Barker, Jr. Filmography as Actor: La Dolce Vita 1960 Director: Federico Fellini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg Born May 8 1919 Rye, NY (USA) Died May 11 1973 New York, NY (USA) Cause of death Heart…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Vaprio d’Adda 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Pirna, Obertor dal Sud (Pirna: The Obertor from the South) mid-1750s Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew and student who himself was to become an internationally…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) 1530s Oil on wood, 95.6 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The identity of this arrogant young man is unknown, but he must have belonged to…
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Tabla en la terraza de un café (Table on a Café Terrace) 1915 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 49.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the distinct brand of Cubism that he developed while living…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 208.6 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Madame Pierre Gautreau (the Louisiana-born Virginie Amélie Avegno; 1859–1915) was known in Paris for her artful appearance.…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Ballerina = Elica = Mare (Dancer = Propeller = Sea) 1915 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 78.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like other artists associated with Italian Futurism, Severini was fascinated by the interactions…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…