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The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Although Magritte had already completed a few versions by 1953, a retrospective at the 1954 Venice Biennale included a 1954 version (now in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) that attracted several collectors with expectations of buying the painting.
Caravaggio's painting is less dramatic than the account given by Leo - the six-winged seraph is replaced by a two-winged angel, and there is none of the violent confrontation described by Leo - no streams of fire, no pools of blood, no shouts or fiery images of Christ. Just the gentle-seeming angel, bulking far larger than the unconscious saint ...
In his 1950 painting The Empire of Light, René Magritte (1898–1967), [66] explores the illusion of night and day, and the paradox of time and light. On the top half of his canvas Magritte paints a clear blue sky and white clouds that radiate bright daytime; while on the bottom half of his canvas below the sky, he paints a street, sidewalk ...
The paintings of the Belgian symbolist painter William Degouve de Nuncques have also been noted as an influence on Magritte, specifically the former's painting The Blind House (1892) and Magritte's variations or series on The Empire of Lights. [10]: 64–65 pp.
Saint Francis in Ecstasy is an oil painting on canvas of 1658–1660 by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where it has been since 1836. It is one of Zurbarán's several paintings of Francis of Assisi , his name saint.
Francesco Guardi was born in Venice into a family of nobility from Trentino.His father Domenico (born in 1678) and his brothers Niccolò and Gian Antonio were also painters, later inheriting the family workshop after the father's death in 1716.
St Francis (1659) by Francisco de Zurbarán. St Francis is a 1659 oil painting of Francis of Assisi by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán.It was the only work by the artist known in France before the 19th century.
Diana and Endymion, 1705-1710 The Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas, c. 1712. Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino.. He received early training from his father, Angelo Solimena, with whom he executed a Paradise for the cathedral of Nocera (a place where he spent a big part of his life) and a Vision of St. Cyril of Alexandria for the church of San Domenico at ...