Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1596 Oil on copper, 26.6 x 35 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Jan Brueghel belonged to a dynasty of painters whose first outstanding member was Pieter Bruegel, Jan’s…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Landscape in Dutch Brazil 1652 Oil on canvas, 282.5 x 210.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam From 1630 the Dutch West India Company (WIC) conquers parts of Brazil and ousts the Portuguese based there. Foiling the enemy is a main…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Port de Marseille (Harbour at Marseilles) 1907 Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The pointillist technique used in this painting consists of small dotted applications of paint, and is sometimes also described as…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Fort Samson, Grandcamp 1885 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Grandcamp-Maisy (France) | Normandie
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Veduta dell’Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore (View of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore) 1765–1775 Oil on canvas, 43 x 61 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Master of the townscape -known as vedute in Italian- Guardi painted many…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) St. Tropez (The Port of St. Tropez) 1894 Color lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Saint-Tropez (France)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Moisson, Le Pouldu (Harvest: Le Pouldu) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm Tate Britain, London In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry’s boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La Découverte des Amériques par Christophe Colomb (The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus) 1958–1959 Oil on canvas, 410 x 284 cm Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg This work is an ambitious homage to Dalí’s Spain. It combines Spanish…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid 1863 Watercolour on vellum, 10.2 x 12.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Campo Santo, Venice 1842 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 92.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Venice is radiant, if somewhat shabby, in Joseph Mallord William Turner’s view north across the Venetian Lagoon. The city…