Cézanne’s fascination with the complexities of human perception and his desire to transcribe the abstract properties of vision established him as the central figure linking nineteenth-century ...
This is a figure made out of dark metal with mottled green discoloration on the surface. The upper half of the figure is a human male, with both arms straight up above the figures head. The arms are ...
On a black and white tiered plinth and nude man stands in contrapposto. One hand is on his hip and the other is raised as if in greeting or salute. He looks in the direction of his raised arm and ...
At left, in the middle distance a small girl with pale skin and long blonde hair wears a long white dress. She kneels facing left, in a grassy field dotted with sheep, looking up at a small cross tied ...
A drawing of a naked young man with short hair standing outside on a rocky shore. His head is lolled over on his left shoulder and his right arm is raised with his palm outstretched. His left arm is ...
This panel may be one of the last executed by Ambrogio before he died in the devastating pandemic known as the Black Death. Ambrogio and his brother Pietro ran two of the most successful workshops in ...
Monet painted this composition at the end of a decade marked by the impressionists’ sustained experimentation with still-life painting. His depiction of this pair of common fish is indebted to the ...
The gilt bronze box is square in shape and is shown to face forward. There are two doors on the left and right side of the box and are wide open. There is a small handle standing up on the top of the ...
At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...
On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a man facing right, wearing the skin from an elephant's head, trunk turned up and tusks protruding out, small dots surround the border. The other ...
On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing left, tendrils of curly hair held in place by a laurel wreath; surrounding the border, the Latin characters: N E R O / C L A V D I V S / C A ...
The fair skinned man looks over his right shoulder toward the viewer with soft dark eyes, short dark hair with thin beard and moustache. The face is the most defined part of this self portrait of the ...