Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1510 Oil on canvas, 85 x 115 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Madonna and Child, dated 1510, is the latest of the works by Bellini in Brera. When he…
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…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) La città che sale (The City Rises) 1910 Tempera on paper, 36 x 60 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano After a period spent in Rome, the artist decided to move to Paris in 1906, driven by poverty…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano In the canvas, which Boccioni painted in 1908 in his studio in Via Adige in Milan, the artists explores for the first time…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1905 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 68.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) late 1480s Oil on wood, 88.9 x 71.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Separated from our everyday world by a parapet, the Madonna nonetheless draws the viewer in with…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Une baignade à Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm National Gallery, London This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) 1884–1886 Oil on canvas, 207.5 x 308.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In his best-known and largest…
El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Garçon en culottes courtes (Boy in Short Pants) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 99.69 x 64.77 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Amedeo Modigliani devoted his short and troubled life to creating paintings. He primarily made portraits of…