Tag: village

Higham (England)

Highlights: • Gads Hill Place Deaths: • Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) See also: • Cities | England | UK

Amor sacro e amor profano (1515-1516)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) 1515–1516 Oil on canvas, 118 x 278 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This work was probably sold to Scipione Borghese in 1608 by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati. A veritable interpretative enigma, critics…

L’Estaque (France)

L’Estaque in Art: Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Viaduc de l’Estaque 1907 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis     Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Les Arbres 1908 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen     Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque c.1885 Art Institute of…

Les côteaux de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (c.1867)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (The Hermitage at Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 150.3 x 200 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The view represented here is a winding village path at the base of a cluster of houses…

Massacre of the Innocents (Vienna)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre of the Innocents (copy) 4th quarter of the 16th century Oil on oak, 116 × 159.7 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Due to minimal errors and omissions as well as an age test conducted…