Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Victorine Meurent c.1862 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 43.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a professional artist’s model and painter in her own right, exhibiting work at the Paris Salon in 1876 and…
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Sur la terrasse à Sèvres (On the Terrace at Sèvres) 1880 Oil on canvas, 88 x 115 cm Musée du Petit Palais, Genève Sur la terrasse de la villa Brancas avec Henri Fantin-Latour. See also: • Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1545 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 170 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto feminile, Bella Simonetta (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1485 Tempera on panel, 61 x 40.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze The painting is also known by the title “Bella Simonetta”, based on an early identification of the young…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La Calunnia (Calumny of Apelles) c.1496–1497 Tempera on panel, 62 x 91 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Simonetta Vespucci (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci) c.1480–1485 Mixed technique on poplar, 81.3 x 50 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph) The fantastical accoutrements in this larger-than-life-size half-length painting…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1475–1480 Oil on poplar, 55.4 x 43 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin In the past, this portrait was considered to be that of Simonetta Vespucci, venerated by Giuliano de’ Medici, who died…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1455 Oil on wood, 39 x 23.25 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu