Tag: wheel

Child with Pinwheel and Toddler’s Chair (c.1500)

Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Child with Pinwheel and Toddler’s Chair c.1500 Oil on oak panel, 57.2 x 32 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This is the outer left wing of a tryptych. The double-sided painted panel originally formed the left wing of a small…

The Ship (1875)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Ship 1875 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 97.8 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began this painting after a voyage to the East with his second wife, Edith. Unusually, he painted it largely from memory, rather than from…

La Diligence de Tarascon (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Diligence de Tarascon (Tarascon Stagecoach) 1888 Oil on canvas, 71.4 x 92.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Closed shutters in the courtyard of the inn at Arles suggest it is siesta time, and short shadows indicate…

Issione (1632)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Issione (Ixion) 1632 Oil on canvas, 220 × 301 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The father of the race of centaurs, Ixion was punished by madness for murdering his father-in-law. After he was pardoned he attempted to supplant…

Allegoria dei pianeti e dei continenti (1752)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Allegoria dei pianeti e dei continenti (Allegory of the Planets and Continents) 1752 Oil on canvas, 185.4 x 139.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The canvas, which is among Tiepolo‘s largest and most dazzling oil…