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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 009 15.9 × 25.1 More images: 1881 Landscape with "The Poor Fisherman" by Puvis de Chavannes [8] Musée d’Orsay, Paris 006 17.5 × 26.5 More images: 1881 to 1882 The Mower [9] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 050 16.5 × 25.1 More images: 1881 to 1882 A man leaning against a Parapet [10] Metropolitan ...
Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
Allegorical paintings by English artists (9 P) A. Paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (6 P) B. Paintings by William Beechey (14 P) Art by William Blake (2 C, 28 P)
The Legend of Briar Rose is the title of a series of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which were begun before 1874 but not completed until 1890. The four original paintings – The Briar Wood , The Council Chamber , The Garden Court and The Rose Bower – and an additional ten adjoining panels, are located at Buscot ...
Van Gogh occasionally visited Café du Tambourin run by Agostina Segatori, the subject of this painting. Previously an artist's model [8] to Manet and Corot and others, [9] the Naples-born Agostina saved the money she earned working as a model and opened the Italian themed Café du Tambourin in 1885, which particularly catered to artists. [10]
The title of the painting is spelled in Italian as Monna Lisa (mona being a vulgarity in Italian), which is rare in English, [21] [22] [23] where it is traditionally spelled Mona. [ 24 ] Lisa del Giocondo was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany , and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. [ 25 ]
The Othello paintings depict a sequence of figural images with oil and acrylic on canvases and paperboards ranging in size from 30×40 inches (102×76 cm) to 120×216 inches (300×550 cm). [2] The overtones are often conveyed with wide-rugged brushstrokes of black against a red background with areas of orange and yellow, and with figures and ...