Tag: scene

Paysage avec Saint Jean à Patmos (1640)

Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec Saint Jean à Patmos (Landscape with Saint John on Patmos) 1640 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 136.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Although French by birth and training, Nicolas Poussin spent most of his career in…

La Place du Havre, Paris (1893)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Place du Havre, Paris (The Place du Havre, Paris) 1893 Oil on canvas, 60.1 × 73.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago After a period of experimentation with the Neo-Impressionist style developed by Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro returned…

Ecce Agnus Dei (c.1655)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Ecce Agnus Dei (Saint John the Baptist Pointing to Christ) c.1655 Oil on canvas, 270.2 × 184.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This is one of four large canvases devoted to the life of Saint John…

Il rapimento delle Sabine (c.1675)

Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Il rapimento delle Sabine (The Abduction of the Sabine Women) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 260 × 295 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perhaps the most acclaimed and well-traveled artist in Italy at the end of the 17th century,…

Le combat du Giaour et Hassan (1826)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le combat du Giaour et Hassan (The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan) 1826 Oil on canvas, 59.6 × 73.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This colorful scene was inspired by a poem from Lord Byron’s “Oriental tales,”…

The Angel of Death (1885)

De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Angel of Death 1885 Black pastel and opaque gold paint, over traces of black chalk, on brown wove paper, 46.5 x 38 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago