Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Kings) c.1470–1475 Tempera on poplar, diameter 130.8 cm National Gallery, London Botticelli painted at least six scenes of the Adoration of the Kings. This, one of his most expansive and ambitious, is painted…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1455 Oil on wood, 39 x 23.25 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Christ Crucified) 1475 Oil on wood, 41.9 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London Christ’s body hangs limply on the Cross; the torment of his crucifixion is almost over. He is supported in his final moments by…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Calvary) 1475 Oil on panel, 52.5 x 42.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The dead Christ hangs from the Cross on Golgotha, also known as Mount Calvary. The Virgin Mary is mourning at his…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Teseo e il centauro (Theseus and the Centaur) from 1795 (studies); 1810–1819 (version) Marble, 360 × 375 × 141 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Dedalo e Icaro (Daedalus and Icarus) 1777–1779 Marble, 182 x 95 cm Museo Correr, Venezia This famous sculpture, his first large one in marble, is the masterpiece of Antonio Canova‘s Venetian youth. It was created for the procurator…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Violiniste (The Fiddler) 1912–1913 Oil on linen tablecloth, 196.5 x 166.5 x 6.5 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Marc Chagall completed The Violinist shortly after moving from St. Petersburg to Paris. It is a good example of the…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Moi et le village (I and the Village) 1911 Oil on canvas, 192.1 x 151.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York Chagall grew up in a Hasidic Jewish community in what is today Belarus. I and the…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…