Bramante (1444-1514) Cristo alla colonna (Christ Tied to the Column) 1487–1490 Oil on panel, 93.7 x 62.5 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Bramante was trained in Urbino, a center of mathematical studies where the use of perspective had been developed as a form…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Crocifissione (Crucifixion) c.1408 Tempera on panel, 60 x 40.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Gentile da Fabriano was the greatest painter of the late Italian Gothic, an itinerant artist who worked in Lombardy, Brescia, Venice, in the marche,…
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Bacio di Giuda (Kiss of Judas) c.1303–1306 Fresco, 200 x 185 cm Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation of Christ) 1305 Fresco, 200 x 185 cm Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova Compare: Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Liberación del peón 1931 Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bon Bock (The Good Bock) 1873 Oil on canvas, 94.6 × 83.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Bock is a dark, rich beer made in the spring. This vivid depiction of a drinker recalls the animated portraits by…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille au métier (Madame Monet Embroidering) 1875 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 56 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though Monet preferred painting in the open air, for this work he brought his easel indoors to capture his first wife, Camille…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Joueuses de dominos (Domino Players) 1921 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Painted during Matisse‘s fourth sojourn in Nice, this scene captures an easy afternoon of games, with the artist’s daughter, Marguerite, on the…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Repas dans un jardin (Repast in a Garden) 1898 Oil on cardboard, 54.3 x 53.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Baptême du Christ (The Baptism of Christ) 1641–1642 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Although Nicolas Poussin‘s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Sainte-Adresse 1867 Oil on canvas, 57 × 80 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In June 1867, at the urging of his father, Claude Monet went to Sainte-Adresse, a popular resort town on the Normandy coast, for an extended…