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Capriccio con palazzo (c.1754)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con palazzo (English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 108.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone…

Les Nymphes et le Satyre (1873)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Nymphes et le Satyre (Nymphs and Satyr) 1873 Oil on canvas, 260.4 x 182.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Three nymphs playfully drag a Satyr into a woodland pond, while a fourth calls to her companions…

Green Wheat Fields, Auvers (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Green Wheat Fields, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 91.44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most popular and universally recognized artists of all time. A remarkably…

Pallade e il Centauro (c.1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…

Pala delle Convertite (c.1491-1494)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala delle Convertite (The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist) c.1491–1494 Tempera on panel, 215 x 192 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London The Trinity with Saints is one of the most important paintings by Botticelli…

Madonna Bardi (1484-1485)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna Bardi (Madonna and Child Enthroned) 1484–1485 Tempera on poplar, 185 x 180 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The scheme of composition of the Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by saints and viewed in a unified, square picture, became extremely popular…

Eté à Bougival (1876)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Eté à Bougival (Summer at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 47 x 62 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Bougival (France)

Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1872)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Villeneuve-la-Garenne 1872 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Impressionist painters turned repeatedly to the depiction of small provincial towns like Villeneuve-la-Garenne. This canvas comes from the early period of Impressionism and still retains…