Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Aux courses (At the Races) c.1875 Oil on wood, 12.6 x 21.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We find ourselves on an emerald-green, grassy racetrack as a dusty cluster of horses and their jockeys bear directly…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Bal masqué à l’Opéra (Masked Ball at the Opera) 1873 Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 72.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Manet came from a well–to–do family, and this painting provides a glimpse of the sophisticated…
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
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.1502–1505 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) c.1502–1505 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…