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The Hanged Man's House was presented at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874 and was the first painting that Cézanne sold to a collector. The village depicted in the painting is Auvers-sur-Oise, 27 km north of Paris. [1] [2] [3]
The Street Enters the House (La Strada Entra Nella Casa) is a 1912 oil-on-canvas painting by Italian artist Umberto Boccioni.Painted in the Futurist style, the work centres on a woman on a balcony in front of a busy street, with the sounds of the activity below portrayed as a riot of shapes and colours.
A triple fore-edge painting has, in addition to paintings on the edges, a third painting applied directly to the edges (in lieu of gilt or marbling). An edge painting that is a continuous scene wrapped around more than one edge is called a panoramic fore-edge painting. This is sometimes called a triple edge painting. [7] [8]
The painting, exhibited in the 'Cubist room', was submitted with the title Nu descendant un escalier, [19] was listed in the catalogue (no. 241) with the French title. [20] A postcard printed for the occasion showed the painting for the first time with the English translation Nude Descending a Staircase. [21]
In the Berlin version, only part of the dark blue roof can be seen, the rest is cut off from the upper edge of the picture. A lighter shade of blue in the upper left corner could suggest the sky. In the Melbourne version, the picture ends on the second floor; the roof area is completely cut off from the upper edge of the picture.
The Madhouse (Spanish: Casa de locos) or Asylum (Spanish: Manicomio) is an oil on panel painting by Francisco Goya. He produced it between 1812 and 1819 based on a scene he had witnessed at the then-renowned Zaragoza mental asylum. [1] It depicts a mental asylum and the inhabitants in various states of madness. The creation came after a ...
Just outside Arles, the first bridge was the officially titled "Pont de Réginel" but better known by the keeper's name as "Pont de Langlois". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1930, the original drawbridge was replaced by a reinforced concrete structure which, in 1944, was blown up by the retreating Germans who destroyed all the other bridges along the canal ...
The painting, now in the Real Academia Española de la Lengua, Madrid, is one of the few signed and dated casta paintings, with a cartouche at the bottom reading: "These castes of New Spain were painted (upon the request of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Rafael Aguilera y Orense) by his great friend and art enthusiast Don Ygnacio María Barreda y ...