Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Il Palazzo Ducale e il Molo dal Bacino di San Marco (Venice: The Doge’s Palace and the Molo from the Basin of San Marco) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 58.1 × 76.4 cm National Gallery, London Guardi delighted in capturing…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Eton College c.1754 Oil on canvas, 61.6 × 107.7 cm National Gallery, London This view is from the bank of the River Thames, looking across a sprawling meadow towards Eton College on the horizon. A shady glade gives way to…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) La vocazione degli apostoli Pietro e Andrea (The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew) 1308–1311 Tempera on panel, 42.7 × 45.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier)…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio fluviale (River Landscape) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 88.3 x 148.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington It might be said that with paintings like this one, Annibale Carracci invented the landscape as a subject for Italian baroque…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiffs 1877 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (The Abduction of Helen of Troy) c.1685–1690 Oil on canvas, 227 x 193.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Vue de Tanger depuis la mer (View of Tangier from the Seashore) 1856–1858 Oil on canvas, 79.53 x 99.85 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis See also: • Tangier (Morocco)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Bord de mer à Sainte-Adresse (The Seashore at Sainte-Adresse) 1864 Oil on canvas, 40.01 x 73.03 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bord de mer à Sainte-Adresse 1868 Private collection See also:…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) La Dogana con la Giudecca (Venice: the Dogana with the Giudecca) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 68.2 x 91.3 cm Wallace Collection, London See also: • Punta della Dogana | Venezia (Italia)
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Ponte a Dolo (Bridge at Dolo) c.1780 Oil on paper mounted on poplar, 14.5 x 18.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest See also: • Dolo (Italia)