Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Vieux Musicien (The Old Musician) 1862 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 248.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a review of the 1846 Salon, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire urged artists to depict “the heroism…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) La Sieste (The Siesta) c.1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The unaffected grace and communal ease of Tahitian women impressed Gauguin enormously. The artist worked on this painting over…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Cristo nella casa di Marta e Maria (Christ in the House of Martha and Mary) 1605 Oil on poplar, 125 x 118 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the stone at the right side of the well:…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Giudizio di Salomone (The Judgement of Solomon) c.1505 Oil on panel, 89 cm x 72 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Mosè alla prova del fuoco (Moses undergoing Trial by Fire) 1505 Oil on panel, 89 cm x 72 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (Judith with the Head of Holofernes) 1504 Oil on canvas, 144 cm x 68 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Giorgione‘s work largely determined the development of 16th-century Venetian painting. There are but…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Tramonto (The Sunset) 1506–1510 Oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 91.4 cm National Gallery, London The meaning of this scene, which takes place in a rocky landscape at sunset or sunrise, is difficult to decipher, largely because…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Adoración de los Reyes Magos (Adoration of the Magi) 1619 Oil on canvas, 203 x 125 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Painted in Seville in 1619, The Adoration of the Magi is the largest of Velázquez‘s early…