Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) The Magdalen Reading c.1435 Oil on mahogany, transferred from another panel, 62.2 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London A young lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor, reading. Although she wears fifteenth-century clothing…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Bodegón (Kitchen Scene) 1618–1620 Oil on canvas, 55.9 × 104.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this modest kitchen scene, a type known as a bodegón (from the Spanish for pantry), Diego Velázquez depicted a young African…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Couturière à la fenêtre (Seamstress at Window) c.1908–1910 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 54.61 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Sogno di Sant’Orsola (The Dream of Saint Ursula) c.1495 Oil on canvas, 273 x 567 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the fifth of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola).…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino e Maria Maddalena (Madonna and Child with Mary Magdalene) 1560s Oil on canvas, 98 x 82 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Santi Pietro, Marta, Maria Maddalena e Leonardo (Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen and Leonard) c.1515 Oil on canvas, 221.6 x 161.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Four saints, each appearing to be lost in thought, are shown…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur au vase étrusque (Interior with an Etruscan Vase) 1940 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 108 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland When Matisse‘s Blue Nude was shown in the 1913 Armory show, the violent, unnaturalistic colors and…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Chrysanthèmes (Chrysanthemums) c.1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 118.4 x 76.2 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Plaza de la Merced, Ronda 1910 Oil on panel, 64.6 x 52 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection After travelling through northern Europe in the summer of 1910, Childe Hassam and his wife journeyed to Spain, where…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Nature morte au poisson (Fish, Still Life) 1864 Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 92.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Although still-life ensembles were an important element in many of the major paintings of the avant-garde artist Édouard…