Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) 1913, cast 1972 Bronze, 117.5 × 87.6 × 36.8 cm Tate Britain, London In the early years of the twentieth century, industrialisation swept across Italy. The…
Blake, William (1757-1827) Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims 1810, reprinted before 1881 Engraving on paper, 35.7 x 96.7 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400)
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) A Priestess of Apollo c.1888 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 29.8 cm Tate Britain, London In Roman mythology, Apollo was the sun god who lived in Mount Olympus, and who, in the guise of the sun, rode his…
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Lady Writing (Back View) s.d. Graphite on cream wove paper, 21.1 × 13.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue de Moret (Street in Moret) c.1890 Oil on canvas, 60 × 73.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Moret-sur-Loing (France)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 87.5 × 69.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Inscribed top left on frame: JUN: DIE 9 ANNO 1290; top right on frame: QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!; and bottom of frame: MART:…
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Madonna and Child 1943 Bronze, 15.2 × 7.2 × 9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Bridge of Sighs 1858 Etching on ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper, 17.6 × 12.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The etching was made as an illustration to Thomas Hood’s poem ‘The Bridge of Sighs’,…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots 1787 Chalk with touches of gouache on buff laid paper, 48.5 × 29.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Angel of Death 1885 Black pastel and opaque gold paint, over traces of black chalk, on brown wove paper, 46.5 x 38 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago