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La plage de Trouville (1870)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46.5 cm National Gallery, London Monet’s earlier paintings of the Normandy coast had emphasised it as a working seascape, peopled with fishermen who had to…

Continence of Scipio (1789)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Continence of Scipio 1789 Oil on canvas, 239.5 x 165.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1785 the British diplomat Lord Carysfort was entrusted with a commission to Reynolds for two paintings, one for Catherine the Great of…

Home, Sweet Home (c.1863)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Home, Sweet Home c.1863 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a camp, two soldiers wearing blue uniforms are lost in thought as they listen to a military band playing music in the…

Martirio dei pellegrini e funerali di Orsola (1493)

Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Martirio dei pellegrini e funerali di Orsola (Martyrdom of the Pilgrims and Funeral of St Ursula) 1493 Oil on canvas, 271 x 560 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the eighth of nine paintings in the cycle of the…

Arrivo a Colonia (1490)

Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Arrivo a Colonia (Arrival of the Pilgrims in Cologne) 1490 Oil on canvas, 279 x 254 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the seventh of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola).…

Giosuè (Porta del Paradiso)

Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) Giosuè (Joshua) 1425–1452 Gilt bronze Battistero di San Giovanni, Firenze This is the eighth panel of the Gates of Paradise, with the story of Joshua. See also: Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) Porta del Paradiso 1425–1452 Battistero di San Giovanni, Firenze