Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La jetée à Cassis (The Jetty at Cassis) 1889 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1887 and 1891, Signac spent the warmer months pursuing his two passions, marine painting and…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Collioure, le clocher (Collioure, The Belltower) 1887 Oil on canvas, 33 x 46 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo See also: • Collioure (France)
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Building of the Tower of Babel c.1595 Oil on panel, 43.2 x 42.9 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Attributed to Peter Brueghel the Younger, this small panel, from the collections of the Palace of…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Veduta del bacino di San Marco dalla Punta della Dogana (View of St. Mark’s from the Punta della Dogana) 1740–1745 Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano See also: • Venezia (Italia)
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Gazzada (View of Gazzada) 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 98.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano See also: • Gazzada Schianno (Italia)
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) & Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Predica di San Marco in una piazza di Alessandria d’Egitto (Saint Mark Preaching in a Square of Alexandria in Egypt) 1504–1507 Oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano See…
El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Derniers rayons du soleil derrière la tour (Last sunbeams behind the tower) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 30 x 23 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across a glittering waterway lined with long, low boats and sailboats at an…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 1843 Oil on canvas, 62 x 93 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Through a golden haze and across an expanse of gently rippling water dotted with…