Canaletto (1697-1768) Veduta del bacino di San Marco dalla Punta della Dogana (View of St. Mark’s from the Punta della Dogana) 1740–1745 Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The View of St. Mark’s Basin came…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Pan and Syrinx 1617 Oil on panel, 33 x 43 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Pietà c.1460 Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Signature: HAEC FERE QUUM GEMITUS TURGENTIA LUMINA PROMANT / BELLINI POTERAT FLERE IONNIS OPUS (This is whwn the lights of grievance pooceed / The…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue de la Seine (View of the Seine) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of Seurat’s career he made about seventy oil studies on small wood…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Une baignade à Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm National Gallery, London This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Herbeux berge de rivière (Grassy Riverbank) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 × 40.64 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In 1881 and 1882, Georges Seurat spent hours along the shores of the River Seine, northwest of Paris.…
El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) River Bank in Springtime (F 352, JH 1321) 1887 Oil on canvas, 48.9 × 58.1 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The light, fresh tones and free brush strokes in this painting of the banks of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1908 Oil on canvas, 99.69 x 99.69 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Twentieth-century art is inconceivable without Claude Monet‘s paintings of water lilies. They are, in many ways, as important in the history…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le quai à Anvers (The Quay at Antwerp) 1874 Oil on panel, 34.6 x 63.81 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Billowing white clouds and the steeples and smokestacks of the bustling Belgian city of Antwerp are…