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Feb 5, 2023 · His paintings of the city’s iconic landmarks, canals, and festivals helped capture the city’s spirit. Some of Canaletto’s most famous works include The Stonemason’s Yard (1725), The Clock Tower in the Piazza San Marco (1728-1730), and Perspective View with Portico (1765). Today, Canaletto’s works are highly prized by collectors.
Jan 21, 2020 · Self-portrait, 1943. Finarte. Bidding closed. Man Ray ’s name is synonymous with moody, seductive black-and-white photographs from the interwar era. The famous 1924 shot Le Violon d’Ingres (Ingres’s Violin) features a woman’s bare back adorned with two elegant f-holes, connecting her body to the titular instrument.
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Feb 27, 2023 · 8. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593) Giuseppe Arcimboldo born in 1526 or 1527 – 11 July 1593 was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. He remains one of the best portraitists.
- Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is an iconic painting. It was created between 1503 and 1506 during the Italian Renaissance period, more specifically, during the High Renaissance.
- The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Another of the most famous Renaissance paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, is The Last Supper. The painting depicts the scene of the Last Supper, where Jesus Christ and his disciples are sharing a meal.
- The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 while he was staying at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.
- The Scream by Edvard Munch. The Scream is a renowned expressionist painting created by Edvard Munch in 1893. It has become one of the most recognisable paintings ever created.
Feb 7, 2018 · A History of the Nude in 10 Works. When he published his ground-breaking thesis The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form in 1956, the great art historian Kenneth Clark offered: "The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the ...
Jan 13, 2020 · This monochrome painting by American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) is in the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York. It's 60x60" (152.4x152.4cm), oil on canvas, and was painted 1960-61. For the last decade and a bit of his life (he died in 1967), Reinhardt used just black in his paintings.
Nov 7, 2016 · Eliseu Visconti, Moça no Trigal (Young Woman in the Wheat Field). This rarely viewed oil depicts the artist’s daughter Yvonne who later became a painter. On show at Almeida e Dale. With the exhibition “Eliseu Visconti-150 anos,” São Paulo’s Galeria Almeida e Dale is celebrating the century-and-a-half since the birth of this artistic ...
