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Mark Twain
(1835–1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens Works: • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) • A Horse’s Tale (1907) • A Tramp Abroad (1880) • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) • Complete Letters (1853-1910) • Life on the Mississippi (1883) • Speeches (English) • The Adventures of Tom…
Richard Fleischer
(1916–2006) Filmography as Director: Crossed Swords 1977 Director: Richard Fleischer Starring: Oliver Reed, Mark Lester Born December 8 1916 Brooklyn, New York, NY (USA) Died March 25 2006 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Occupation Film director
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834–1903) The artist’s works: At the Piano 1858–1859 Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati Billingsgate 1859 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Fantin-Latour drawing 1859 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Portrait of the Artist 1859 Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Lime Burner 1859 Victoria and Albert Museum, London…
Aux courses en province (1869)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Chez la modiste (1881)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
La classe de danse (1874)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…
Autoportrait au col blanc (c.1857)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Autoportrait au col blanc (Self-Portrait with White Collar) c.1857 Oil on paper on canvas, 20.5 x 15 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tommaso Inghirami (c.1510)
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…
Madonna d’Alba (c.1510)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna d’Alba (Alba Madonna) c.1510 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, diameter 94.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After four years in Florence, Raphael moved to Rome in 1508, probably to execute more significant commissions under the papal…