Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Bowman (frontispiece from The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdusi) 1882 Etching in black on cream wove paper, 18.7 × 13.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This etching is one of two prints that Sir Lawrence…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) 1910–1912 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A pale-skinned young woman with copper-orange hair, wearing a turquoise-blue robe, stands in a pastel-infused landscape in this stylized, vertical painting. The woman fills…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Sant’Apollonia (Saint Apollonia) c.1455–1460 Tempera on poplar panel, 38.8 x 28 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Attributed to Piero della Francesca. Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman in front of a gold background wears a…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Madonna and Child with Angels after 1479 Oil on panel, 57.6 x 46.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the tradition of his Flemish predecessors, Memling‘s painting contains a wealth of religious meaning; it is filled with symbols…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) L’empereur Napoléon dans son cabinet aux Tuileries (The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries) 1812 Oil on canvas, 203.9 × 125.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington How do portraits influence the way we see historic figures?…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di una nobildonna e suo figlio (Portrait of a Noblewoman and her Son) 1574 Oil on panel, 110.5 x 87 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1911 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 51.4 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Egon Schiele‘s career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight,…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di gentiluomo (Portrait of a Gentleman of the Emo? Family) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 125.7 x 100.3 cm Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) An Egyptian in a Doorway 1865 Oil on wood, 55.9 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the mid-1860s, Alma-Tadema painted a number of subjects set in ancient Egypt, in which convincing archaeological precision and uncanny…
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Frida y Diego Rivera (Frieda and Diego Rivera) 1931 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 78.74 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Rivera, Diego (1886-1957)