Tag: water

Andromède (1852)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Andromède (Andromeda) 1852 Oil on canvas, 33 x 25.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Die Drahtziehmühle (c.1489)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Die Drahtziehmühle (The Wire-drawing Mill) c.1489 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 x 42.6 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin The depiction of the landscape environment, which is self-evident and particularly interesting to us, was not common for centuries, from the…

Wapping (1860-1864)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…

The Lime Burner (1859)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The Lime Burner 1859 Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 25.4 x 17.8 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London During his formative years in Paris in the 1850s, Whistler was influenced by the injunctions of the…

The Scream (1910)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) probably 1910 Tempera and oil on cardboard, 83.5 × 66 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 5 things you should know about The Scream Written by: Ute Kuhleman Falck, curator at MUNCH It is one of the…

The Scream (1893)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) 1893 Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 x 73.5 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo Painted in 1893, Munch’s iconic Scream was donated to the National Gallery in 1910. In terms of its fame, this painting now rivals…

El aguador de Sevilla (c.1623)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El aguador de Sevilla (The Waterseller of Seville) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 107.7 x 81.3 cm Wellington Museum, London This is one of the most famous early paintings by Velázquez, produced in his home town of Seville when…

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…

La Duquesa de Alba (1797)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Duquesa de Alba (The Duchess of Alba) 1797 Oil on canvas, 210.3 x 149.3 cm Hispanic Society of America, New York   Inscribed bottom center and left (in the soil): “Solo Goya / 1797” Francisco de Goya…