Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts. In painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (c. 1503–06) is considered an archetypal masterpiece, [1] [2] [3] although it was not produced for admission to a guild or academy.
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500). The painting was sold in November 2017, [1] [2] through the auction house Christie's in New York City.
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 ]
Painting Andrea Mantegna: An Old Man and his Grandson: Painting Domenico Ghirlandaio: Pastoral Concert: Painting Titian: Madonna of the Rabbit: Painting Titian: Woman with a Mirror: Painting Titian: Venus and Cupid with a Satyr: Painting Antonio da Correggio: Susanna and the Elders: Painting Tintoretto: La Bella Nani: Painting Paolo Veronese ...
Kimbell Art Museum, purchased from Sotheby's auction, Catalogue of Old Masters sale (Lot No. 69), 9 July 2008 by Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, as "Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio". Subsequently purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and attributed to Michelangelo. [10] [11] Madonna and Child with Saint John and Angels
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 [2].
The Old Masters Gallery re-opened in 1960 after the reconstruction of the gallery building was completed. While the most important paintings survived this period, the losses were significant. Records from 1963 state that 206 paintings had been destroyed and 507 were missing. [1] Of these, some 450 are still missing today. [1]