Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) and Workshop Madonna con Bambino e San Giovanni Battista (Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1490 Tempera and oil on wood, diameter 68 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The perfectly round form, called…
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Rocher isolé (The Isolated Rock) c.1862 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Gustave Courbet’s paintings of the shorelines in Normandy portray the land as subject to continuous, if gradual, change. Here, he…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les Falaises à Étretat (The Cliffs at Étretat) 1885 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Étretat (France)
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Ulysses and the Sirens 1891 Oil on canvas, 100.6 x 202 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Engraving, 24.6 × 18.9 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Compare: Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Petit Palais, Paris
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Mauvaise surprise (Unpleasant Surprise) 1901 Oil on canvas, 194.6 x 129.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The large-scale jungle scenes of Henri Rousseau are rife with violent struggles between wild animals such as lions, tigers, and horses. Here, a…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Invention de monstres (Invention of monsters) c.1937 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 78.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018 Salvador Dalí, Surrealism’s most publicized…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée basse à Varengeville (Low Tide at Varengeville) 1882 Oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection In February 1882, Claude Monet left Poissy to travel to Dieppe and Pourville, on the Norman…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Sueño causado por el vuelo de una abeja alrededor de una granada un segundo antes del despertar (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking) 1944 Oil on panel, 51…