Canaletto (1697-1768) Veduta del bacino di San Marco dalla Punta della Dogana (View of St. Mark’s from the Punta della Dogana) 1740–1745 Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The View of St. Mark’s Basin came…
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 Signature: HAEC FERE QUUM GEMITUS TURGENTIA LUMINA PROMANT / BELLINI POTERAT FLERE IONNIS OPUS (This is whwn the lights of grievance pooceed / The…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The work, executed in 1908 in Boccioni‘s studio on Via Adige in Milan, offered the artist the opportunity to fully portray the landscape…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue de la Seine (View of the Seine) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of Seurat’s career he made about seventy oil studies on small wood…
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) Herbeux berge de rivière (Grassy Riverbank) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 × 40.64 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In 1881 and 1882, Georges Seurat spent hours along the shores of the River Seine, northwest of Paris.…
El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…