Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) Vase 1936 Mold-blown glass, 29.2 x 31.1 x 28.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vase (1936)
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Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (1490s)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (Last Communion of Saint Jerome) early 1490s Tempera and gold on wood,34.3 x 25.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great fourth-century scholar and translator of the Bible into Latin is shown in…
Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (c.1500)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 67.3 x 150.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The picture dates about 1500 and is painted in the harsh style Botticelli evolved during…
L’Annunciazione (c.1485)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1485 Tempera and gold on wood, 19.1 x 31.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation unfolds in a classicizing…
Ritratto di giovane (c.1470)
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1470 Oil on wood, 27 x 20.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Trained in Naples in the Netherlandish technique of oil painting, Antonello set the standard for…
Myrna Loy
(1905–1993) Myrna Adele Williams Filmography as Actress: Midnight Lace 1960 Director: David Miller Starring: Doris Day, Rex Harrison Born August 2 1905 Radersburg, MT (USA) Died December 14 1993 New York, NY (USA) Occupation Actress Writer Awards Academy Award
Milo O’Shea
(1926–2013) Filmography as Actor: Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Director: Woody Allen Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels Born June 2 1926 Dublin (Ireland) Died…
Ecce Homo (c.1475)
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ecce Homo (Christ Crowned with Thorns) c.1475 Oil and tempera on wood, 42.5 x 30.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York An artist of astonishing originality, Antonello combined a Netherlandish mastery of description with an Italian…
La Seine à Bougival (1876)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 61.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1872 to 1877, Sisley lived along the Seine just west of Paris, an area whose…
Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1872)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…