Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1504–1505 Tempera, oil, and gilding on panel, 72.5 x 101.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this horizontal painting, a crowd of more than two dozen men and women gathered shoulder to shoulder at…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Three Trees 1643 Etching and drypoint, 21.1 x 27.8 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Convalescent 1896 Black ink on paper, 62.8 42.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Essai pour trois portraits (Study for Three Portraits) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 194.95 × 116.52 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Baigneuses avec une tortue (Bathers with a Turtle) 1907–1908 Oil on canvas, 181.6 x 221 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis In 1941, Henri Matisse simply described this painting as “three women by the sea, playing with…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Concerto (The Concert) c.1507 Oil on canvas, 86 x 70 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia On five-year loan from a private collection.
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Pietà con le tre Marie (The Dead Christ Mourned, The Three Maries) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 92.8 x 103.2 cm National Gallery, London This is perhaps the most poignant image in the National Gallery’s collection of the pietà…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Nous autres musiciens (Three Musicians) 1921 Oil on canvas, 204.5 × 188.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Pablo Picasso had a large ambition for this monumental canvas: to look back at and say farewell to a key period…
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Trois femmes aux ombrelles, Les trois grâces (Three women with parasols, The Three Graces) s.d. Oil on panel, 141.3 x 89.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris