Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme assise, décolletée (Young woman seated, with neck and shoulders uncovered) 1891 Oil on canvas, 33.2 × 20.9 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Baigneurs sur la Seine (Bathers in the Seine) 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 134 x 100 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo The alternative title “Study from the Nude,” as Camesasca notes (1987, p. 67), is an indication of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse au griffon, Lise au bord de la Seine (Bather with a Griffon Dog, Lise on the Bank of the Seine) 1870 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 115 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Lise Tréhot (1848-1922) posed…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde tressant ses cheveux (Blonde Braiding Her Hair) 1886 Oil on canvas, 65.41 x 54.29 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas After an inspirational trip to Italy in the early 1880s where he admired Classical models, Pierre-Auguste Renoir renewed…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Stigmatizzazione di San Francesco (Stigmatization of Saint Francis) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 278 x 153 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A depiction of a miracle in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi that took place in…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1556–1561 Oil on canvas, 235 x 125 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was made for the altar of Santa Maria Nuova, in Venice, around the mid-1550s; it arrived in Brera…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Andrea Doria come Nettuno (Portrait of Andrea Doria in the Guise of Neptune) c.1545–1546 Oil on canvas, 149 x 199.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Paolo Giovio commissioned this portrait from Bronzino for a museum that…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Pietà c.1460 Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel, dated to the years between 1465 and 1470, marks an evident emancipation of the artist from the influence of Andrea Mantegna, to…