Tag: petal

Ritratto di uomo (c.1535)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di uomo (Portrait of a Man, Mercurio Bua) c.1535 Oil on canvas, 118 x 105 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The character, long believed to be a self-portrait of the artist, is depicted inside a closed environment, the…

Allegoria della castità (c.1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della castità (Allegory of Chastity) c.1505 Oil on panel, 42.9 x 33.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This small panel by Lotto can be dated to early in his career because of stylistic similarities to Allegory of…

Sunflowers (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sunflowers (F 454, JH 1562) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm National Gallery, London ‘The sunflower is mine’, Van Gogh once declared. Soon after his death he became known as the painter of sunflowers, an…

Roses jaunes dans un vase (1882)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Roses jaunes dans un vase (Yellow Roses in a Vase) 1882 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas A bouquet of yellow roses is set on a marble table against a dark…