Tag: shadow

La Adoración de los Reyes Magos (c.1655-1660)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Adoración de los Reyes Magos (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 190.8 x 146.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the leading painter in devoutly Catholic Seville, Spain, from…

Adam and Eve (1642)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 182.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The leading 17th-century Flemish painter after the deaths of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens distinguished himself from his…

La Agonía en el huerto (c.1590-1595)

El Greco (1541-1614) La Agonía en el huerto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1590–1595 Oil on canvas, 102.2 x 113.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo With his intensely personal style, El Greco (“the Greek”) is one of the most original…

Auvers, Paysage à la charrue (1872-1877)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Auvers, Paysage à la charrue (Auvers, Landscape with Plough) 1872–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 81.5 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Responding to 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van Goyen, and others, Charles-François…

Avenue de Chantilly (1888)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Avenue de Chantilly (Avenue at Chantilly) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Paul Cézanne combined classical structural stability with a new sense of respect for the inherent two-dimensionality of painting. By…

Nature morte (1867)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Nature morte (Still Life) 1867 Oil on canvas, 81 x 99.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Don’t bother trying to look for something new: you won’t find novelty in the subject matter, but in the way you…

Sunlight on the Coast (1890)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Sunlight on the Coast 1890 Oil on canvas, 76.8 × 123.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Winslow Homer skillfully conveys nature’s power with almost violent stabs and dabs of his brush representing waves crashing against rocks. Sunlight…

Canal en Picardie (c.1865-1871)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Canal en Picardie (Canal in Picardy) c.1865–1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 61.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Canal in Picardy depicts a wistful, idyllic scene of springtime in the northern French…

Les Danseuses (c.1899)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Danseuses (The Dancers) c.1899 Pastel on paper, 62.2 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The incandescent, expressive colors of Edgar Degas’s pastel seem to vibrate off the paper. Applied in layered webs of rhythmic strokes,…