Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 73.34 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo The Symbolists, who emerged during the 1880s, were weary of modern society and sought escape from reality. They began to…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Marta e Maria Maddalena (Martha and Mary Magdalene) c.1598 Oil and tempera on canvas, 100 x 134.5 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit “There is a Michelangelo da Caravaggio who is doing extraordinary things in Rome.” This quote by a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919) La Parisienne (La Dame en Bleu, The Blue Lady) 1874 Oil on canvas, 163.2 x 108.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Henriot, Henriette (1857-1944)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Crocifissione di Sant’Andrea (The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew) 1606–1607 Oil on canvas, 202.5 x 152.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although Saint Andrew is typically associated with an X-shaped cross, here he is depicted on a standard vertical cross.…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Il cavadenti (The Tooth Puller) c.1609 Oil on canvas, 194,5 x 139,5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La Femme aux chrysanthèmes (A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers, Madame Paul Valpinçon?) 1865 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The juxtaposition of the prominent bouquet and the off-center figure,…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 91.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Castelnau-le-Lez (France) | Des Hours, Thérèse
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Mauresque (Woman in a Moorish Costume) 1869 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 59 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Lise Tréhot, Renoir’s first mistress, model, and muse, is here depicted with quiet eroticism by that artist’s friend and colleague, Bazille.…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Jeune femme aux pivoines (Young Woman with Peonies) 1870 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 75.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Holding a bunch of peonies in one hand, a woman with brown skin leans forward, toward us from…