The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata, Donatello
Erasmo da Narni, the subject of this sculpture, was a nobleman and mercenary. Known for his militaries during the Pre-Renaissance period, he became a well known figure in the Italian class. ⚔️
The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo’s one of the best known and most reproduced works in the history of art. It illustrates the narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.
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Created by artist Mary Cassatt at the end of the nineteenth century, ‘Children on the Beach’ was part of an Impressionist collection of works that portrayed the lives of women and children.
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Lilacs in a Window is a painting by the American painter, printmaker, pastelist, and connoisseur Mary Cassatt. It is one of the few still-life’s she painted as she almost always painted people. So, this still life was a rarity.
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‘The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’ is a 1931 painting by the American artist Grant Wood. It depicts the American patriot Paul Revere during his midnight ride on April 18, 1775. The perspective is from a high altitude as Revere rides through a brightly lit Lexington, Massachusetts
The Telescope is a 1963 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte. The painting depicts a window through which a partly clouded blue sky can be seen.
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Salvador Dali is on our Feature Card #3. Here he is and in Paris with his Anteater pet. Learn more about this great and eccentric artist on our feature page and subscribe today.
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Edward Hopper's ‘Rooms by the Sea’ was painted in 1951 and was based on his studio on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The view he would have seen out the back door of his studio….. it was a literal representation of silence and solitude.
‘Horse Frightened by Lightning’ was painted in 1825 by Eugene Delacroix, one of the leading figures of French Romanticism and is one of several masterpieces that feature horses. In this watercolour painting, a white horse is frightened by the lightning, rears up in a storm. #art
The Blue Vase by Paul Cezanne in 1906 shows how the subject is used to further one of his major preoccupations as an artist: the study of the effect of light on objects, and the resulting variations in colour..
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Pyramid of skulls was painted by Paul Cezanne in 1901. During the period when most of these pictures were painted, Cezanne was clearly in a very depressed mood and obsessed with his own impending death.
‘The Deep’ is an abstract expressionist painting by the American painter Jackson Pollock where he used a combination of dripping black and white paint. It was then broken down with hints of yellow. There have been so many different interpretations over the years… what is yours?
Tuna fishing painting by Salvador Dali took 2 summers to paint and was completed in 1967. Dali was later quoted as saying that the painting represented the universe as being ‘finite’ not ‘infinite’.
The Night Café at Arles by Paul Gaugin was a result of a competitive relationship between Gaugin and Van Gogh. Gaugin painted the café that Van Gogh had already painted, however the paintings were of different moods.
Georgia O’Keeffe made a number of Red Canna paintings of the Canna Lily plant, first in watercolour, such as a ��red canna flower bouquet’ painted in 1915, but primarily abstract paintings of close-up images in oil.
Madame Grand is a painting by Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun who was a prominent French portrait artist of the 18th Century. The work depicts Madame Grand who was born in India. She later became the wife of the minister and diplomat Talleyrand.
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