Parmigianino (1503-1540) Santa Barbara (Saint Barbara) 1522 Oil on panel, 48 x 39 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A portrait of Saint Barbara in profile on a black background. In her hands, she holds a tower, which was her symbol. A…
Santa Barbara (1522)
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St. Tropez (1894)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) St. Tropez (The Port of St. Tropez) 1894 Color lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Saint-Tropez (France)
Metropolitana di Parigi, ruota panoramica e Torre Eiffel (c.1912-1913)
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Metropolitana di Parigi, ruota panoramica e Torre Eiffel (Paris Subway, Ferris Wheel and Eiffel Tower) c.1912–1913 Pastel and charcoal, 59.6 x 48.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gino Severini joined the Futurist movement, which emphasized the dynamism,…
Paysage avec un homme tué par un serpent (1648)
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec un homme tué par un serpent (Landscape with a Man killed by a Snake) probably 1648 Oil on canvas, 118.2 x 197.8 cm National Gallery, London A man has been crushed by a snake and lies…
The golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid (1863)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid 1863 Watercolour on vellum, 10.2 x 12.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Rienzi vowing to obtain Justice (1849)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Rienzi vowing to obtain Justice 1849 Oil on canvas, 83 x 117 cm National Gallery, London Cola di Rienzo vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna…
London from Greenwich Park (1809)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London from Greenwich Park exhibited 1809 Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 120 cm Tate Britain, London Like the view from Richmond Hill, that upstream towards the City from Greenwich Park is one of the most prized…
London, from Greenwich (1811)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London, from Greenwich 1811 Etching and mezzotint, 21.1 x 29.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This panoramic view is based on Joseph Mallord William Turner’s painting London from Greenwich Park (1809; Tate, London). The Queen’s…
La Tour (1959)
Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963) La Tour (The Tower) 1959 Color lithograph on off-white wove paper, 52 x 45.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Le Sommeil des Paysans (c.1808-1812)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Sommeil des Paysans (The Sleep of the Peasants) c.1808–1812 Oil on wood panel, 77.5 x 57.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Impatient with studio routine, Géricault spent four years teaching himself by copying paintings in the…