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Meditazione sulla passione (c.1490)

Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Meditazione sulla passione (The Meditation on the Passion) c.1490 Oil and tempera on wood, 66.5 × 84.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This remarkable picture is a meditation on death and resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed…

Pandore (c.1914)

Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In classical mythology, Pandora was a supremely beautiful woman created by the gods and sent to Earth to live among mortals. Redon…

Portrait funéraire de Jacques Damala (c.1889)

Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) Portrait funéraire de Jacques Damala (Funerary Portrait of Jacques Damala) c.1889 Marble, 27.9 x 46 x 31.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great tragic actress, Sarah Bernhardt, was also a gifted sculptor. She carved this…

An Egyptian in a Doorway (1865)

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) An Egyptian in a Doorway 1865 Oil on wood, 55.9 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the mid-1860s, Alma-Tadema painted a number of subjects set in ancient Egypt, in which convincing archaeological precision and uncanny…

Vue de Cagnes (c.1924-1925)

Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Vue de Cagnes (View of Cagnes) c.1924–1925 Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Soutine made his way to Paris in 1913 in pursuit of a career as a painter. There, he became…

Portrait of Theodore Duret (1883)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…

La Manche à Gravelines, un soir (1890)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) La Manche à Gravelines, un soir (The Channel at Gravelines, Evening) 1890 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York Study: Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Étude pour La Manche à Gravelines, un soir 1890…

La Toilette de Vénus (1751)

Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 108.3 x 85.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and…

The Holy Family with Shepherds (1616)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Holy Family with Shepherds 1616 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 106.7 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Working in Antwerp, the commercial center of the Spanish Netherlands, Jordaens catered to an international audience…

Red Hills with the Pedernal (1936)

O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Red Hills with the Pedernal 1936 Pastel on paper mounted to wood-pulp board, 54.6 x 69.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The Pedernal is a flat-topped mountain that commands the Ghost Ranch landscape and is visible for miles…