Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Piazza San Marco, Venezia (Piazza San Marco, Venice) c.1740 Oil on canvas, 136.2 x 232.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This view of the Piazza San Marco, Venice shows Bellotto‘s devotion to faithful observation. At the left…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Piazza San Marco late 1760s Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 85.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view can be compared to Canaletto’s of the same location painted forty years prior. Guardi’s technique is far looser…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Pont de Passy et la Tour Eiffel (The Pont de Passy and the Eiffel Tower) 1911 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lines and planes converge at the center of…
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…
Bramante (1444-1514) Strada con vari edifici, colonnati e un arco (A street with various buildings, colonnades and an arch) 1475–1510 Engraving, 25.4 × 37.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Église Saint-Pierre (Church of Saint Peter of Montmartre) 1914 Oil on board, 76 x 105 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Compare: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) L’église Saint-Pierre et le Sacré-Cœur à Paris 1912 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp See…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1929 Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 81 cm Private collection Compare: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame 1909 Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1940 Private collection Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre Dame de…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre Dame de Paris s.d. Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 35.5 cm Private collection Compare: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame 1909 Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1929 Private collection Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame 1909 Oil on cardboard, 65 x 49 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Compare: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1929 Private collection Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1940 Private collection Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1888 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 54.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Two plumes of white steam rise from an unseen boat on the river Seine, signs of modern life juxtaposed with the…