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Morte di Cleopatra (1660-1662)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) 1660–1662 Oil on canvas, 120 x 158 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra c.1645–1655 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di…

Le Christ mort et les anges (1864)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Christ mort et les anges (The Dead Christ with Angels) 1864 Oil on canvas, 179.4 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet identified the source for this painting, the first of several religious…

Morte di Cleopatra (1661-1662)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1661–1662 Oil on canvas, 140 x 159.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra c.1645–1655 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra…

Autoportrait au nimbe (1889)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait au nimbe (Self-Portrait with Halo) 1889 Oil on wood, 79.2 x 51.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A dark-haired, disembodied head of a haloed man with pale, peach skin floats against a red and yellow…

Adamo ed Eva (c.1550)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adamo ed Eva (Adam and Eve) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 240 x 186 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The painting is a faithful visualisation of Genesis 30, 9-19 in which Eve is blamed for accepting the forbidden fruit (although…

Sisifo (1548-1549)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Sisifo (Sisyphus) 1548–1549 Oil on canvas, 237 x 216 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The literary source for the Furies is Ovid‘s Metamorphoses (IV, 447-464) and Virgil‘s Aeneid (VI, 457-8), which recounts the eternal sufferings in Hades of Tityus,…

Le Rêve (1910)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le Rêve (The Dream) 1910 Oil on canvas, 204.5 x 298.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York