Edward Hopper | ... Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, | , Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyden, Carlos Alva ... |
Thomas Gainsborough | ... nal art". Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were | , John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, ... |
Death of Sardanapalus | ... rs, and those to come in the final days. Other works, including Delacroix's | included larger figures, and these often drew heavily on earlier artists, ... |
famous painting | ... e history of the Revolution. In 1817, Congress commissioned John Trumbull's | of the signers, which was exhibited to large crowds before being installed ... |
Madonna dei Tramonti | ... ons which appeared to be independent iconic aggregations. Lorenzetti's 1330 | also reflects the ongoing influence of Giotto on his Marian art, midway th ... |
The Voyage of Life | ... e of Life Childhood 1842.jpg|Thomas Cole, Childhood, one of the 4 scenes in | , 184 |
Spoliarium | ... ilot science high school of the Philippines; the National Museum, where the | of Juan Luna is housed; the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, the premier mus ... |
The Barque of Dante | Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) made his first Salon hits with | (1822), The Massacre at Chios (1824) and Death of Sardanapalus (1827). The ... |
Federal Art Project | ... rk, shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with other artists of the | , was the first Mexican American artist to receive national recognition |
Bonampak | ... he ruins of Piedras Negras, its major rival. Yaxchilan is from the ruins of | . The site lies in Ocosingo Municipality in the state of Chiapas, on the M ... |
Adele Bloch-Bauer II | ... al battle against Austria (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann). Portrait of | was sold at auction in November 2006 for $88 million, the third-highest pr ... |
Pompeii | ... of Northumberland and their interest in archaeology, includes frescoes from | , relics from Ancient Egypt and Romano-British objects. Constable's Tower ... |
The Nightmare | File:John Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare.JPG|Henry Fuseli, 1781, | , a classical artist whose themes often anticipate the Romanti |
Thomas Eakins | In January 2007 the University sold | ' painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts a surgery that took place at th ... |
Mona Lisa | ... has stated:" Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's | and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most painti ... |
The Sick Child | File:TheSickChild-by-EdvardMunch-FourthVersion.jpg| | (1885-87). Tate Gallery, London |
Danaë | Image:Gustav Klimt 010.jpg| | by Gustav Klimt, painted 1907. Private Collection, Vienn |
The Golden Bough | ... doo dolls are an example. This dichotomy was proposed by Sir James Frazer's | |
The Ninth Wave | File:Aivazovsky, Ivan - The Ninth Wave.jpg|Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850, " | ", State Russian Museum, St. Petersbur |
Calumny of Apelles | ... Apelles, known through Lucian's description." Sandro Botticelli's panel of | was painted in conscious striving to equal the painting in Lucian's ekphra ... |
Thomas Eakins | ... r late-19th-century American exponents of the medium included Thomas Moran, | , John LaFarge, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and, preeminently, Win ... |
Whistler's Mother | In summing up the painting's impact author Martha Tedeschi has stated:" | , Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's ... |
The Sick Child | ... ective helped move him to a new view of his art. He wrote that his painting | (1886), based on his sister's death, was his first "soul painting", his fi ... |
Bonampak | ... nant power of the Usumacinta River area. It dominated such smaller sites as | , and had a long rivalry with Piedras Negras and at least for a time with ... |
Die Fahne Hoch! | ... of black paint were separated by very thin pinstripes of unpainted canvas. | (1959) is one such painting. It takes its name ("The Raised Banner" in Eng ... |
William Hazlitt | ... inal group of radicals, though they were supported by the critic and writer | and others |
The Fighting Temeraire | ... f the Liberal Democrats might seriously threaten Labour - J. M. W. Turner's | , in which a chirpy Charles Kennedy as tug-boat towed a grotesque and dila ... |
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin | ... Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c. 1435–40. The setting is derived from the | by Jan van Eyc |
The Gross Clinic | In January 2007 the University sold Thomas Eakins' painting | , which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $68 million, ... |
William Hazlitt | ... ne "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be inspired by Poussin. | may have introduced Keats to the painting—he later wrote the essay "On Lan ... |
American Gothic | ... ting's impact author Martha Tedeschi has stated:" Whistler's Mother, Wood's | , Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all ach ... |
Raphael Cartoons | ... Triumphs of Caesar housed in the Lower Orangery. The palace once housed the | now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their former home, the Cartoon ... |
Florence Cathedral | ... elleschi, Leone Alberti, Andrea Palladio, and Bramante. Their works include | , St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (to ... |
Melisande (Stokes) | File:Marianne Stokes Melisande.jpg|Marianne Stokes, | , Tempera on canvas, 1895–189 |
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen | ... ns. The steep and sweeping vista was the subject of the well-known painting | by the 19th-century German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich |
Duomo | File:Firenze.Duomo.Hawkwood.JPG|Sir John Hawkwood (fresco in the | , Florence |
Boy With a Pipe | ... by Ronald Lauder for a reported US $135 million, surpassing Picasso's 1905 | (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever pa ... |
Bonampak | ... courts are conspicuously absent at some major sites, including Teotihuacan, | , and Tortuguero, although ballgame iconography has been found there |
Florence Cathedral | ... the Baptistery of St. John the Baptist (Battistero di San Giovanni) and the | (Santa Maria del Fiore). The cart is connected by a rope to the interior o ... |
Death of Sardanapalus | ... alon hits with The Barque of Dante (1822), The Massacre at Chios (1824) and | (1827). The second was a scene from the Greek War of Independence, complet ... |
Coalbrookdale by Night | File:Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg d. J. 002.jpg|Philip James de Loutherbourg, | , 1801, a key location of the English Industrial Revolutio |
three paintings | In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to create | to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall in the University of Vienna. Not ... |
Triumphs of Caesar | ... rt to Early Georgian period. The single most important works are Mantegna's | housed in the Lower Orangery. The palace once housed the Raphael Cartoons ... |
Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi | ... ro Lorenzetti and Simone Martini worked shoulder to shoulder at Assisi. The | includes a number of artistic works. Simone Martini's 1317 fresco there re ... |
Florence Cathedral | ... statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of | , the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo de ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... ntings at the Louvre. Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and | , but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopol ... |
Et in Arcadia ego | Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work. | , a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right), exemplifie ... |
Beata Beatrix | ... e idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as | |
Manet | ... ionally-recognized collection of Impressionist paintings by such masters as | , Monet, Whistler, Degas and Cassatt. It is also the sight of the annual S ... |
Beata Beatrix | Image:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix, 1864-1870.jpg| | (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: Elizabeth Siddal |
Henri Matisse | ... graphed many of his artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, | , Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, su ... |
The Birth of Venus | ... Apelles in The School of Athens and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — | and Calumny of Apelles — on his works |
The Voyage of Life | ... e natural world. Thomas Cole's paintings tend towards allegory, explicit in | series painted in the early 1840s, showing the stages of life set amidst a ... |
The Massacre at Chios | ... roix (1798–1863) made his first Salon hits with The Barque of Dante (1822), | (1824) and Death of Sardanapalus (1827). The second was a scene from the G ... |
Melencolia I | A famous allegorical engraving by Albrecht Dürer is entitled | . This engraving portrays melancholia as the state of waiting for inspirat ... |
Raft of the Medusa | Théodore Géricault's | (c. 1820), was a social commentary on a current event, unprecedented at th ... |
The Raising of the Cross | Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_068.jpg| | , Peter Paul Rubens, 1610–1 |
Puberty | ... ding houses. Munch portrayed women either as frail, innocent sufferers (see | and Love and Pain) or as the cause of great longing, jealousy and despair ... |
The Scream | File:The Scream.jpg| | . 1893. Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard. Nasjonalgalleriet, Osl |
Basilica of Saint Francis | ... st-classical period to use this technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper | in Assisi. A person who creates fresco is called a frescoist |
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | ... 901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the | (1907) and The Kiss (1907–1908). Klimt travelled little but trips to Venic ... |
Goya's peasant before the firing squad | ... spair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of | . |
Annunciation in Washington | ... ver a dalmatic, especially Gabriel in Annunciation scenes - for example the | by Jan van Eyck |
The Charging Chasseur | ... olitical message. Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) had his first success with | , a heroic military figure derived from Rubens, at the Paris Salon of 1812 ... |
Et in Arcadia ego | ... he name of the band was reportedly inspired by the Nicolas Poussin painting | (also known as "The Arcadian Shepherds") |
Liberty Leading the People | File:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg|Eugène Delacroix, | 183 |
Liberty Leading the People | ... ds in North Africa, painting colourful scenes of mounted Arab warriors. His | (1830) remains, with the Medusa, one of the best known works of French Rom ... |
The Blue Boy | Image:Thomas Gainsborough 008.jpg| | , Thomas Gainsborough, 177 |
The Sick Child | ... ration in life and death. These themes find expression in paintings such as | (1885), (1893–94), (1894), and The Bridge. The latter shows limp figures w ... |
Guernica | In the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso's | (1937) used arresting cubist techniques and stark monochromatic oils, to d ... |
The Surrender of Breda | ... contains numerous references to the works of Diego Velázquez, specifically | , a Spanish painter who had died 300 years earlier, and who influenced bot ... |
J. M. W. Turner | The Turner Prize, named after the painter | , is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of ... |
Pompeii | ... ose at the magnificent Villa dei Misteri (1st century B.C.) in the ruins of | , and others at Herculaneum, were completed in buon fresco |
J. M. W. Turner | File:Turner-The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.jpg| | , The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835), Philadelphia Muse ... |
Calumny of Apelles | ... f Athens and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — The Birth of Venus and | — on his works |
The Triumph of Death | ... Cardsharps" by Caravaggio (the backgammon board is in the lower left) and " | " by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (the backgammon board is in the lower right) ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_068.jpg|The Raising of the Cross, | , 1610–1 |
La Lecture | Image:La Lecture (Fantin-Latour).jpg| | , 1877, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyo |
Arthur Hughes | ... pen timbers. Seven artists were recruited, among them Valentine Prinsep and | , and the work was hastily begun. The frescoes, done too soon and too fast ... |
The Night Watch | ... e, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as | by Rembrandt, became part of the collection |
Cardsharps | ... Steen, Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel and others). Some surviving artworks are " | " by Caravaggio (the backgammon board is in the lower left) and "The Trium ... |
Edward Hopper | ... and Raoul Dufy; in America the major exponents included Charles Burchfield, | , Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, and John Marin, 80% of whose total out ... |
A Vision of Fiammetta | Image:A Vision of Fiammetta by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.jpg| | (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of Andrew ... |
paintings | The term has been used in André Malraux’s novel (1933) and René Magritte’s | 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt’s book (1958) ... |
three paintings | ... s, to narrate different or succeeding stories. His best known works are the | representing the battle of San Romano (for a long time these were wrongly ... |
Beethoven Frieze | In 1902, Klimt finished the | for the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition, which was intended to be a ce ... |
Portrait of Philip de Croÿ | Image:Rogiercroy.jpg| | , c 146 |
Tomb of the Diver | ... na Graecia, a tomb containing frescoes dating back to 470 BC, the so called | was discovered on June 1968. These frescoes depict scenes of the life and ... |
Henri Matisse | In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with | , Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, then in 1915 he was painted by his friend ... |
The temptation of St. Anthony | File:Fantin Latour The Temptation of St Anthony.jpg| | |
The Raft of the Medusa | File:Theodore Gericault Raft of the Medusa-1.jpg|Théodore Géricault, | , 181 |
J. M. W. Turner | ... if they had to make do with Wales as a setting. Caspar David Friedrich and | were born less than a year apart in 1774 and 1775 respectively and were to ... |
Water Lilies | Image:Monet_Water_Lilies_1916.jpg| | , Claude Monet, 191 |
Portrait of a Young Woman | Image:Rogier van der Weyden 029.jpg| | , c. 143 |
Santa Maria del Fiore | ... ifferent churches and religious buildings in Florence. The Cathedral is the | . It is the fourth largest church in Europe, its length being and its heig ... |
The School of Athens | ... f the composition of them. Raphael may have portrayed himself as Apelles in | and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — The Birth of Venus and Calumny ... |
Salisbury Cathedral | ... he was appointed vicar of the parish of Calne in Wiltshire and treasurer of | . He held this position for eleven years, during which time he also engage ... |
The Raft of the Medusa | ... alon of 1812 in the years of the Empire, but his next major completed work, | of 1821, remains the greatest achievement of the Romantic history painting ... |
J. M. W. Turner | The Romantic seascape painters | and Ivan Aivazovsky created some of the most lasting impressions of the su ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... aintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660), | (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), Pier ... |
Édouard Manet | ... 20), was a social commentary on a current event, unprecedented at the time. | 's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863), was considered scandalous not because o ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... ife of Saint Bruno by Eustache Le Sueur and the Life of Marie de Médicis by | were placed on display. The museum, which included the sculptures in the g ... |
J. M. W. Turner | ... ioned by Leopold I of Belgium in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced | 's major work, The View of Orvieto. One of his most remarkably inventive w ... |
Sistine Chapel ceiling | ... nity, in the frescos of the Sistine Chapel. Five sibyls were painted on the | by Michelangelo; the Delphic Sibyl, Libyan Sibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean S ... |
The Third of May 1808 | ... ayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado thin black margin.jpg|Francisco Goya, | , 181 |
Salisbury Cathedral | ... lter's executors. Elias is traditionally credited as being the architect of | after Walter's death. Another scholar employed by Walter was Peter of Bloi ... |
The Gate of Calais | ... roduces Monsters (in an about the UK Independence Party); William Hogarth's | about the ban on UK meat exports following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth dis ... |
Portrait of Francesco d'Este | Image:Rogier van der Weyden 024.jpg| | , c 146 |
Ronnie Wood | ... ond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, | and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delaye ... |