Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Doge Alvise Mocenigo presentato al Redentore (Doge Alvise Mocenigo Presented to the Redeemer) probably 1577 Oil on canvas, 97.2 x 198.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This unfinished sketch records one stage of Tintoretto’s preparation…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Il Ritrovamento di Mosè (The Finding of Moses) 1560s? Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 134 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The biblical story of the Finding of Moses was popular in Venice. Tintoretto gives it…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Estate (Summer) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 193 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 59 x 203 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of seven canvases (P00386, P00388, P00389, P00393, P00394, P00395, P00396) in a group linked by the…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Evening of the Deluge c.1843 Oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third,…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 1843 Oil on canvas, 62 x 93 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Through a golden haze and across an expanse of gently rippling water dotted with…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Approach to Venice 1844 Oil on canvas, 62 x 94 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington When Approach to Venice was first exhibited in 1844, Joseph Mallord William Turner quoted Lord Byron in the catalog…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rotterdam Ferry-Boat 1833 Oil on canvas, 92.3 x 122.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A passenger boat, its bright tan sails reflecting the sun, careens among choppy water with at least eight more sailboats…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Junction of the Thames and the Medway 1807 Oil on canvas, 108.8 x 143.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across churning waves at four sailing ships and a wooden rowboat with…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning 1826 Oil on canvas, 93 x 123.2 cm The Frick Collection, New York This canvas painted for William Moffatt depicts his estate at Mortlake, on the Thames just west of…