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10 masterpieces at the Museo Nacional del Prado
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina | Santa Caterina, 1510 | Museo Nacional del PradoThis is one of the Spanish Renaissance’s most emblematic depictions of a female figure and the best known of Yáñez de la...
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5 Masterpieces at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Woman with a Parasol in a Garden, 1875In Woman with a Parasol in a Garden, Renoir’s language is wholly impressionistic: in a setting lacking a visible horizon, the flowers and...
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Salon des Indépendants, Paris 1884
Since 1884, the Salon des Indépendants has played a key role in the history of world art.Salon des Indépendants, annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, held in Paris since 1884.In...
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8 Notable artworks at the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes more than 63,000 artworks and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts.The museum is a...
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5 Important artworks at the Tate Gallery
Tate is a family of art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall, known as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool + RIBA North.When Tate first opened its doors to the public in...
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Juliette Wytsman | Impressionist painter
Juliette Wytsman (1866-1925) was a Belgian impressionist painter.She was married to painter Rodolphe Wytsman.Her paintings are in the collections of several museums in Belgium.Wytsman was born as...
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Camille Pissarro | La charcutiére, 1883
Like 'The Little Country Maid', this painting was executed while the artist lived near Pontoise, north-west of Paris.During the 1880s he became interested in painting rural market scenes, several of...
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5 Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City - The Met Fifth Avenue...
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5 Masterpieces at the Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery entirely occupies the first and second floors of the large building constructed between 1560-1580 and designed by Giorgio Vasari.It is famous worldwide for its outstanding...
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Rogier van der Weyden | Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, 1435-40
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is a large oil and tempera on oak panel painting, usually dated between 1435-1440, attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400 -...
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10 Masterpieces of the Musée d’Orsay
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876This painting is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877.Though some of...
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Edmé Bouchardon | Cupid cutting his bow from the club of Hercules, 1750
Cupid cutting his bow from the club of Hercules (L'Amour se taillant un arc dans la massue d'Hercule) is a marble statue created by the sculptor Edmé Bouchardon (French sculptor, 1698-1762 in 1750 and...
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Claude Monet | Woman in the Garden, Sainte-Adresse, 1867
This is a very early Impressionist work by the group's leader, Claude Monet.The sunlight which floods the paintings of the Impressionists - who did most of their painting out of doors, directly from...
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Maria Martinetti | Orientalist painter
Maria Martinetti (1864-1921) was an Italian painter. She was a student of Gustavo Simoni.She lived and exhibited in Italy and France.In 1890 she moved to the United States.She is known for her genre...
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Great paintings from the Clark Art Institute
Adrien Moreau | Contemplation, 1873The solitary woman in Moreau's painting gazes down toward a duck pond.Her contemplative expression -and the painting's title- suggest that she has chosen this...
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Henri Lebasque | Afternoon Tea on the Terrace in Sainte-Maxime, 1914
Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) first visited the French Riveria in 1906 at the suggestion of his friend Henri Manguin.In 1924, Lebasque relocated to the region to permanently take advantage of its...
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Vincent van Gogh | The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières, 1887
The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières exemplifies some of the radical directions emerging from the paintings Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) completed in Paris.In March 1886, Van Gogh left his native...
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Pinacoteca di Brera | 6 Masterpieces
The collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera includes some of the greatest masterpieces of Italian and foreign art from the 13th to the 20th century.The works are displayed on the first floor of the...
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Anaïs Nin: "L'amore non muore mai di morte naturale"..
L'amore non muore mai di morte naturale.Muore perché noi non sappiamo come rifornire la sua sorgente.Muore di cecità e di errori e tradimenti.Muore di malattia e di ferite,muore di stanchezza, per...
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Fred Appleyard (1874-1963)
Fred Appleyard was a British artist known for his landscape paintings, portraits, classical subjects and allegorical compositions.He had 41 works exhibited during his lifetime by the Royal Academy and...
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