Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 67.3 x 150.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The picture dates about 1500 and is painted in the harsh style Botticelli evolved during…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Punizione dei ribelli (Punishment of the Rebels) 1480–1482 Fresco, 348.5 x 570 cm Cappella Sistina, Vaticano
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1478 Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 171 x 85.5 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Antonello da Messina set the martyrdom of St. Sebastian in Venice, as can be seen from the waterways…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1455 Oil on wood, 39 x 23.25 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Calvary) 1475 Oil on panel, 52.5 x 42.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The dead Christ hangs from the Cross on Golgotha, also known as Mount Calvary. The Virgin Mary is mourning at his…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Eté à Bougival (Summer at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 47 x 62 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Bougival (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Villeneuve-la-Garenne 1872 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Impressionist painters turned repeatedly to the depiction of small provincial towns like Villeneuve-la-Garenne. This canvas comes from the early period of Impressionism and still retains…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 61.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1872 to 1877, Sisley lived along the Seine just west of Paris, an area whose…