Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Young Woman 1634 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 55.6 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This bust of a young woman turning slightly to the left and inclining her head just a bit…
Cárcova, Ernesto de la (1866-1927) Retrato de la Sra. María de la Cárcova de Ferrari (Portrait of Mrs. María de la Cárcova de Ferrari) 1894 Oil on canvas, 251 x 126 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires See…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet à l’âge de dix ans (Juliette Courbet at the age of ten years) c.1841 Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 19 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Simply opening the Grand Palais reference catalog…
Fratello sole, sorella luna Director: Franco Zeffirelli Producer: Dyson Lovell, Luciano Perugia Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Kenneth Ross Genre: Drama | Historical Music: Riz Ortolani Country: Italia | United Kingdom Language: English Studio: Paramount Pictures Release date: 1972 Running time:…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Jeunes femmes du village (Young Ladies of the Village) 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 194.9 x 261 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting, which initiated a series of pictures devoted to the lives of women,…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Cup of Tea c.1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Taking afternoon tea was a social ritual for many upper-middle-class women. Committed to portraying the ordinary events of everyday…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Frère et soeur bretons (Breton Brother and Sister) 1871 Oil on canvas, 129.2 x 89.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Based on sketches Bouguereau made while summering in Brittany in the late 1860s, this picture was…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paolina Borghese Bonaparte come Venere Vincitrice (Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix) 1804–1808 Carrara marble, 160 x 92 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Portrayed by Antonio Canova in the guise Venus victorious in the Judgement of Paris, Pauline Borghese…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
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…