Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) The Lady of Shalott 1888 Oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm Tate Britain, London English poet Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1833) describes a heroine confined to a tower and cursed to die…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c.1835 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner drew on his considerable experience as a marine painter and the brilliance…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Whalers c.1845 Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 122.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner was seventy years old when Whalers debuted to mixed reviews at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845. Its subject…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère (Bathers at La Grenouillère) 1869 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm National Gallery, London During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (Portrait of Edmond Duranty) 1879 Gouache with pastel enlivenment on linen, 100 x 100.4 cm Burrell Collection, Glasgow See also: • Duranty, Edmond (1833-1880)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala delle Convertite (The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist) c.1491–1494 Tempera on panel, 215 x 192 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London The Trinity with Saints is one of the most important paintings by Botticelli…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480–1485 Tempera and oil on wood, 37.5 x 28.3 cm National Gallery, London This apparently simple portrait of a young man was revolutionary in Italian painting. Until this moment, artists…