Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) L’Arc-en-ciel, Pontoise (The Rainbow, Pontoise) 1877 Oil on canvas, 52.9 x 81.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Impressionistic The rainbow, Pontoise reflects a typically impressionistic way of observing and painting. The sun has just broken through after a storm…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Soleil couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt, effet d’hiver (Setting Sun on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect) 1880 Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm Petit Palais, Paris Lavacourt is a village in the Paris area, located…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Oliviers (Olive Trees) 1889 Oil on canvas, 73.66 x 92.71 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This is one of fifteen canvases of olive trees that van Gogh executed between June and December of 1889. Earlier…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Les Deux Majestés (The Two Majesties) 1883 Oil on canvas, 69.22 × 128.91 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Adoration of the Magi c.1494 Oil on oak panel, 147.4 x 168.6 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Closed: The theme of this triptych is the advent of salvation -a message about the universality of Redemption. The Eucharistic meaning…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Trasfigurazione di Cristo (Transfiguration of Christ) 1685 Oil on canvas, 240 x 320 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Conversione di san Paolo (The Conversion of St Paul) c.1527–1528 Oil on canvas, 177.5 × 128.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna As the Acts of the Apostles recount, Saul was suddenly surrounded by heavenly light on his way to Damascus, where…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le Repos de Diane (Diana Resting) c.1845 Oil on canvas, 40.64 x 33.02 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor (Dante’s Love) 1860 Oil on mahogany, 74.9 x 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London «L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.» (Love that moves the sun and the other stars). Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145. This…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Espérance (Hope) 1842 Oil on canvas, 116.5 × 117 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: half-length woman, arms and hands open, white sleeveless tunic under a green drape, face in profile turned to the right. (Louvre)…