Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 225 x 176 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) wears a Franciscan habit and meditates…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del conte Antonio di Porcia e Brugnera (Portrait of Count Antonio Porcia and Brugnera) 1535–1540 Oil on canvas, 115 x 93 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting, signed on the windowsill, portrays the Friulian nobleman Antonio di…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Tête de taureau (Head of a Bull) 1942 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The expressive brutality of the animal’s bleeding, severed head in such flagrant contrast with the white cloth reminds…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Veduta del Canal Grande verso la Punta della Dogana, da Campo San Ivo (View of the Grand Canal looking toward the Punta della Dogana from Campo Sant’Ivo) 1740–1745 Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera,…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The work, executed in 1908 in Boccioni‘s studio on Via Adige in Milan, offered the artist the opportunity to fully portray the landscape…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Rue de l’Hermitage, Pontoise 1873–1875 Watercolor, pencil and gouache on paper, 16.83 × 22.86 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This previously unpublished watercolor is unique in Pissarro‘s career, as it is the only watercolor depicting the…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont Neuf (The Pont Neuf) 1871 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 73.03 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Claude Monet returned to Paris in the fall of 1871 after more than a year of exile in…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Maison abandonnée près d’Aix-en-Provence (Abandoned House near Aix-en-Provence) 1885 Oil on canvas, 66.04 × 82.55 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Paul Cézanne‘s landscape paintings are often centered on houses, virtually all empty, abandoned, or ruined. But…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Chemin à l’Hermitage (Road to L’Hermitage) 1874 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Chemin à l’Hermitage is part of a group of works that Camille Pissarro painted in 1873–1874,…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La berge de la Seine (The banks of the Seine) 1880 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires At the session of November 17, 1910, the members of the Deliberative…