Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…
Canaletto (1697-1768) La Riva degli Schiavoni a Venezia (The Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice) c.1724–1730 Oil on canvas, 46 × 63 × 2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See also: • Venezia (Italia)
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) L’angoscia della partenza (The Anguish of Departure) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 86.04 x 70.17 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In his own words, Giorgio de Chirico aspired “to live in the world as an immense museum of…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage à Ornans (Landscape at Ornans) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 47.3 x 56.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia See also: • Ornans (France)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Falls at Tivoli 1803? Watercolor on cardboard, 37.8 x 53.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia See also: • Tivoli (Italia)
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) La chiusa di Dolo (The Lock at Dolo) c.1745 Oil on canvas, 73.8 × 108.7 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Dolo (Italia)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Madonna and Child (obverse) c.1496–1499 Oil on panel, 52.4 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dürer was born in Nuremberg and received a typical medieval training from his goldsmith father and from the Nuremberg painter Michael…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Rochelle 1930 Watercolor over black chalk on paper, 29.7 x 45.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Les Tours Vertes, La Rochelle 1913 Private collection See also: • La Rochelle (France)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Les Tours Vertes, La Rochelle (The Green Towers, La Rochelle) 1913 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Private collection Compare: Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Rochelle 1930 National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • La Rochelle…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La tour des pigeons à Bellevue (The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue) 1890 Oil on fabric, 95.5 x 113 x 7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Cézanne’s method of compressing space and simplifying forms into flattened, geometric shapes…