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The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
81 cm × 100 cm (31.9 in × 39.37 in) Location. The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. Golconda (French: Golconde) is an oil painting on canvas by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, painted in 1953. It is usually housed at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The piece depicts a scene of red-roofed buildings and a mostly blue partly cloudy ...
Many of Magritte's works were used directly in that scene. In the 1999 movie The Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary, the Magritte painting The Son of Man was prominently featured as part of the plot line. Gary Numan's 1979 album The Pleasure Principle was a reference to Magritte's painting of the same name.
199.5 cm × 254 cm (78.5 in × 100 in) Location. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581[ a ] is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, shortly after ...
The Human Condition (La condition humaine) is the title of four paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. One was completed in 1933 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] Another one was completed in 1935 and is part of the Simon Spierer Collection in Geneva, Switzerland. [ 2 ]
The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo), also known as The Creation of Man[ 2 ], : plate 54 is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c.1508 –1512. [ 3 ] It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the ...
IN FOCUS: Robert and Trude Steen assumed their late son led ‘a wasted life’ – until the discovery of his alternate identity as a muscular nobleman on the internet. And it should transform ...
Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn, eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him. [a] The work is one of the 14 so-called Black ...