Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Fight Between Carnival and Lent 1559 Oil on oak panel, 118 × 163.7 × 3.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on a stone at lower left: BRVEGEL (V and E ligated) 1559 In the foreground…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel 1563 Oil on oak, 114.4 × 155.5 × 3.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Designated at the bottom of a cuboid: BRVEGEL. FE. M.CCCCC.LXIII Bruegel’s monumental composition became the most famous, most often…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) L’Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) 1494–1498 Dry wall-painting, 460 x 880 cm Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milano Leonardo did not use the traditional fresco technique to paint the Last Supper and the lunettes. He chose a method that…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Benois 1478–1480 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 49.5 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg One of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance era, Leonardo da Vinci combined the talents of artist and scientist, inventor…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Carnaval, Boulevard des Capucines (Carnival on the Boulevard des Capucines) 1873 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Boulevard des Capucines (Paris)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard des Capucines 1873–1874 Oil on canvas, 80.33 x 60.33 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City See also: • Boulevard des Capucines (Paris)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet (The church of Auvers-sur-Oise, seen from the apse) 1890 Oil on canvas, 93 x 74.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris (F0789-JH2006) After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles (Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles) 1889 Oil on canvas, 57.3 x 73.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris (F0483-JH1793) Van Gogh produced three, almost identical paintings on the theme of his bedroom. The…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Terrasse de café sur la place du Forum (Café Terrace on the Place du Forum) 1888 Oil on canvas 80.7 x 65.3 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 467, JH 1580) Nocturnal painting Van Gogh had intended to make…