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This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases. [ 1 ] Among these paintings, however, are many widely known and influential works.
A group of painters in Leiden began to produce vanitas paintings in the beginning of the 16th century and they continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is an allegorical art representing a higher ideal or containing hidden meanings. [5] Vanitas are very formulaic and they use literary and traditional symbols to convey mortality.
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 ]
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
The Museum of Modern Art; Gift of Richard S. Zeisler Oil on canvas 54 x 73.4 cm Literal Meaning II [42] 1929 Menil Collection (Houston. Tex.) Oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Literal Meaning IV [43] 1929 Oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Literal Meaning VI [44] 1929 Oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe) [45] 1929 Oil on canvas 55 x ...
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum: 94.2 × 131.2 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1595: Musicians: New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art: 87.9 × 115.9 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1595: Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy: Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum: 93.9 × 129.5 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1596: Boy Bitten by a Lizard: London, National Gallery: 66 × 49 ...
Throughout the world, there are many works of art that have a contested provenance. This may be due to theft, lost documentation, looting , or just information lost to antiquity. In some cases, just the previous or current ownership of the work is disputed, but in other cases the authenticity of the work itself may be thought to be a forgery .
List of Picasso artworks 1889–1900; List of Picasso artworks 1901–1910; List of Picasso artworks 1911–1920; List of Picasso artworks 1921–1930; List of Picasso artworks 1931–1940; List of Picasso artworks 1941–1950; List of Picasso artworks 1951–1960; List of Picasso artworks 1961–1970; List of Picasso artworks 1971–1973