Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche che si abbracciano (Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss) 1787–1793 Marble, 155 x 168 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Il sogno del cavaliere (Vision of a Knight) c.1504 Oil on poplar, 17.1 x 17.3 cm National Gallery, London This painting was inspired by a passage in the Punica, an epic poem by Silius Italicus (AD 25–101) recounting the…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Velata (Woman with a Veil) c.1515 Oil on canvas, 82 x 60.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Compare: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Ritratto di dama 1520–1524 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Luti, Margherita
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1518–1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 63 cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Roma Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina 1814 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1506 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship.…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar, 29.4 x 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Raffaello (1483-1520) Busto femminile (Head and shoulders of a woman) c.1505–1507 Pen and brown ink, black chalk, 22.2 x 15.9 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Head and shoulders of a woman, in three-quarters profile facing left, with folded arms, possibly a study…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Ellen Andrée (Woman in Street Clothes) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Parisienne (A Parisian Lady) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 192 x 125 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune (Plum Brandy) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body…