Artist Richard Diebenkorn Title Ocean Park #116 Year 1979 Medium Oil and charcoal on canvas Dimensions 82 x 72 in. (208.3 x 182.9 cm) Location De Young Museum, San Francisco In 1966, Richard Diebenkorn moved from the San Francisco Bay…
Text by Vincent DeLuise Author, Educator, Musician at amusicalvision.blogspot.com, Cultural Ambassador, Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo Title Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus Year 1590 Type oil on panel Dimensions 68 X 56 cm (26.77 X 22.05 in) Location Skokloster Castle, Håbo,…
Artist Amedeo Modigliani Title Portrait of a Young Woman (Jean Hébuterne) Year 1918 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 18 × 11 in. (45.7 × 27.9 cm) Location Yale University Art Gallery Amedeo Modigliani was very drawn to African sculptures that…
Artist Diego Velázquez Title Las Meninas Year 1656 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 318 cm × 276 cm (125.2 in × 108.7 in) Location Museo del Prado, Madrid If one painting could be called a universe, it is Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). Painted in 1656, it’s…
Material Baked clay Size 21.9 centimetres (8.6 in) x 10 centimetres (3.9 in) (maximum) x (end A) 7.8 centimetres (3.1 in) x (end B) 7.9 centimetres (3.1 in) Writing Akkadian cuneiform script Created About 539–538 BC Period/culture Achaemenid Empire Discovered Babylon, Baghdad Vilayet of Ottoman Iraq, by Hormuzd Rassam in…
Claude Monet (1840–1926) occupies a rare place in the history of art — not just as a founder of Impressionism, but as an artist who never stopped reinventing the act of looking. His paintings feel as if they are breathing:…
Artist Unknown, from Antioch (modern-day Turkey (Antakya) Title Personification of Ktisis Year 5th century AD Type floor mosaic (Cubes of marble and limestone embedded in lime mortar) Dimensions 285.3 x 276.9 cm (112 5/16 x 109 in Location Worcester Art…
Artist Antonio López García Title María Year 1972 Medium Pencil on Paper Dimensions 70 x 53.3 cm Location Private collection When you see María scribbled on the page in pencil its like you pause, even though its just a name.…
Text by Vincent DeLuise Author, Educator, Musician at amusicalvision.blogspot.com, Cultural Ambassador, Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Artist Andrea Mantegna Title Oculus Year c. 1465-1474 Medium fresco Dimensions diameter: 270 cm (106.2 in) Location Palazzo Ducale, Mantua What a wonder of the Rinascimento is this ceiling!…
Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner Title Peace – Burial at Sea Year exhibited 1842 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 87 x 86,7 cm Location Tate Britain, London A painting that feels like silence made visible. A pale sky meets calm…