Tag: sea

Régates à Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Régates à Sainte-Adresse (Regatta at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy…

Visione di Sant’Agostino (c.1480-1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Visione di Sant’Agostino (Vision of St. Augustine) c.1480–1482 Oil on panel, 20 x 38 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Predella of the Altarpiece of St. Barnabas. Altarpiece of St. Barnabas: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Barnaba c.1480–1482 Galleria degli…

San Giovanni Evangelista a Patmos (c.1488-1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Giovanni Evangelista a Patmos (St. John the Evangelist on Patmos) c.1488–1490 Tempera on panel, h. 21 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This panel is part of the predella of the of the San Marco Altarpiece. San Marco Altarpiece:…

Nascita di Venere (c.1485)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nascita di Venere (Birth of Venus) c.1485 Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Known as the “Birth of Venus”, the composition actually shows the goddess of love and beauty arriving on land, on the…

La condition humaine (1945)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1945 Watercolor, crayon over graphite, ink and gouache, 42.20 x 32.20 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland © C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York During World War II, when…

Luxe, calme et volupté (1904)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Luxe, calme et volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) 1904 Oil on canvas, 98 x 118.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris © Succession H. Matisse, Paris

La Rochelle (France)

La Rochelle in Art: Bouguereau, William (1825-1905) Une vocation 1896 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland     Corot, Camille (1796-1875) Le port de La Rochelle 1851 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven     Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Les Tours Vertes, La Rochelle 1913…