Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo in pietà sorretto da due angeli (Christ as the Suffering Redeemer supported by two angels) 1495–1500 Tempera on panel, 78 x 48 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The Gospel according to St. Luke begins its account of…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Melancholy 1532 Oil on panel, 61 x 97 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The sixteenth-century artist Lucas Cranach has become very popular in recent years, prompting a steady succession of exhibitions featuring his mysterious images. SMK…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Casa de locos (Madhouse) after 1794 Oil on wood, 44.5 × 69.5 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Corral de locos 1794 Meadows Museum, Dallas
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Crouching human couple / The Family (Kauerndes Menschenpaar / Die Familie) 1918 Oil on canvas, 150 × 160.8 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna A man and a woman, both naked, crouch in the darkness of a room. A child…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Femme à la fourrure (Lady in a fur) c.1880 Pastel on canvas, 55.8 × 45.8 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna She looks out of the picture confidently. Her hair is carefully styled, the fur is casually draped over her…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Devant le miroir (Before the Mirror) 1876 Oil on canvas, 93 x 71.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York In 1865 Edouard Manet shocked Parisian audiences at the Salon with his painting Olympia (1863), an unabashed depiction of a prostitute…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Italienne (The Italian Woman) 1916 Oil on canvas, 116.7 x 89.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Henri Matisse often painted the same subject in versions that range from relatively realistic to more abstract or schematic. At times the transition…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans la vanillère, homme et cheval (In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse) 1891 Oil on jute canvas, 73 x 92 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Prior to his first voyage to Tahiti in 1891, Paul Gauguin claimed—from a…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici come Orfeo (Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici as Orpheus) c.1537–1539 Oil on panel, 93.7 × 76.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici is shown as the mythological musician and…
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Danae c.1531 Oil on canvas, 161 x 193 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Together with Leda, Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle, and Jupiter and Io, this painting forms part of a well-known series of Jupiter’s loves, painted by Correggio for Federico…