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 The…
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…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Patio porteño en 1850 (Courtyard in Buenos Aires in 1850) c.1860 Oil on copper, 30.2 x 43 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This small painting has been overrated in its quality, for example the…
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…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Rape of Proserpine 1839 Oil on canvas, 92.6 x 123.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) & Workshop San Jerónimo con Santa Paula y San Eustoquio (Saint Jerome with Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium) c.1640–1650 Oil on fabric, 245.7 x 173.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Les funérailles (The Funeral) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 90.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s unfinished painting is thought to depict the funeral of the writer Charles Baudelaire, which took place on September…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Veduta di Monaco di Baviera (View of Munich) c.1761 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 119.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Munich (Germany)