Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) 1515–1516 Oil on canvas, 118 x 278 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This work was probably sold to Scipione Borghese in 1608 by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati. A veritable interpretative enigma, critics…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ragazzo che monda un frutto (Boy peeling a fruit) c.1592–1593 Oil on canvas, 63 x 53 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London Caravaggio was probably the most influential painter of the early seventeenth century. This may be his…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre (The Painter’s Studio) 1854–1855 Oil on canvas, 361 x 598 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The enormous Studio is without doubt Courbet‘s most mysterious composition. However, he provides several clues to its interpretation: “It’s the whole world…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet 1873–1874 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65.5 cm Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo Juliette, the youngest of the artist’s three sisters, was to become the faithful conservator of his studio. The work…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Portrait de Juliette Courbet (Portrait of Juliette Courbet) 1844 Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 62 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Courbet, Juliette (1831-1915)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón (Majas on a Balcony) c.1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 194.9 x 125.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Attributed to Goya. The women known as majas visually distinguished themselves through opulent, exaggerated traditional dress that…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón (Majas on a Balcony) c.1808–1812 Oil on canvas, 162 x 107 cm Private collection, Switzerland Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón c.1800–1810 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Doña Teresa Sureda (Thérèse Louise de Sureda) c.1803–1804 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 79.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Sureda, Teresa
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Condesa de Chinchón (The Countess of Chinchón) 1800 Oil on canvas, 216 x 144 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid María Teresa de Bourbon y Vallabriga, Marchioness of Boadilla del Monte and Countess of Chichón, was the daughter…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Corral de locos (Yard with Madmen) 1794 Oil on tin-plated iron, 42.9 x 31.4 cm Meadows Museum, Dallas Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Casa de locos after 1794 Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna