This painting by Eugene Delacroix, painted in 1830, is sometimes called “Liberty on the Barricades”, but its correct, original name is “Liberty Leading the People.” There is also a widespread misconception that the painting depicts the events of the French Revolution, but this is not so: the painting is filled with the spirit and events […]
Ingres’ Turkish Baths summarize all the activities of the master in the nude genre. In this picture, Ingres quotes himself. The girl with the mandolin in the foreground is easily recognizable as “Walpinson’s Bather”, the figure with her arms thrown back on the right refers to “Odalisque and the Slave” (the blue embroidered pillow under […]
Year of painting: 1771. Dimensions of the painting: 146 x 181 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: mythological painting. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Small Palace, Paris, France.
Year of painting: 1827. Dimensions of the painting: 386 x 515 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: mythological painting. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Louvre, Paris, France.
Year of painting: 1896. Dimensions of the painting: 121 x 160.5 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: nude. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: private collection.
Year of painting: 1509. Dimensions of the painting: 110 x 138 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: allegory. Style: High Renaissance. Gallery: Louvre, Paris, France.
Year of painting: 1945. Dimensions of the painting: 61 x 75.6 cm. Material: masonite. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: primitivism, surrealism. Gallery: private collection.
Year of painting: 1527. Dimensions of the painting: 58.4 x 74.9 cm. Material: panel. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: Northern Renaissance. Gallery: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
Year of painting: 1944. Dimensions of the painting: 43 x 33 cm. Material: masonite. Writing technique: oil. Genre: self-portrait. Style: primitivism. Gallery: Collection of Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, Mexico.
Year of painting: 1862. The dimensions of the painting are 200 x 250 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: realism. Gallery: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.