Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Decollazione del Battista e Banchetto di Erode (Beheading of the Baptist and Herod’s Banquet) c.1427–1428 Tempera on poplar, 19.5 x 22 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Decollazione del Battista e Banchetto di Erode (c.1427-1428)
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Incoronazione della Vergine (c.1434-1435)
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) c.1434–1435 Tempera on poplar, 209 x 206 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The miter-shaped cutout of the painted surface at the top is original. Main register of an altarpiece from which elements…
Maestà (c.1280)
Cimabue (1240-1302) Maestà (The Virgin and Child in Majesty surrounded by six angels) c.1280 Tempera and gold on poplar, 427 x 280 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Gable shape at the top. Original frame comprising twenty-six painted medallions: in the upper…
San Francesco riceve le stimmate (c.1300-1325)
Giotto (c.1267-1337) San Francesco riceve le stimmate (St. Francis receiving the stigmata) c.1300–1325 Tempera and gold on poplar, 313 x 163 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Signature: OPUS IOCTI FLORENTINI (“Work of Florentine Giotto”). At the predella: The dream of Innocent…
Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (1842)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le compositeur Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (The composer Cherubini and the Muse of lyric poetry) 1842 Oil on canvas, 105 x 94 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Cherubini seated, elbow resting on a…
Luigi Cherubini
(1760–1842) Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini Works: • Marche funèbre (1820) • Médée (1797) • Piano Sonatas • Sinfonia in re maggiore (1815) Cherubini in Art: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Luigi Cherubini 1841 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati …
Nicolas Boileau
(1636–1711) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Works: • Le Lutrin, poème héroï-comique (French) Boileau in Art: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’apothéose d’Homère 1827 Musée du Louvre, Paris Born November 1 1636 Paris (France) Died March 13 1711 Paris (France) Occupation Academician Literary critic Occupation Poet…
La grande odalisque (1814)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Une odalisque, dite La grande odalisque (An Odalisque, called The Great Odalisque) 1814 Oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Naked woman, 3/4 face surrounded by a turban tied at the nape…
L’apothéose d’Homère (1827)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Homère déifié, dit aussi L’apothéose d’Homère (Homer deified, also known as The Apotheosis of Homer) 1827 Oil on canvas, 386 x 512 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris In front of a temple with a pediment inscribed…
Jupiter et Antiope (1851)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Jupiter et Antiope (Jupiter and Antiope) 1851 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 43.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris