The 1000++ Artworks of media Wood and containing the word louise nevelson, wood, sky, 1950

In the 1860s and 70s, Corot often posed young, working-class Parisians in exotic costumes, perhaps evoking peasants he had painted in Italy in 1825–28. The introduction of studio props, however, situate the later works more squarely within the tradition of genre painting. In this work, the model’s e...

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The picture shows two monkeys chained to an iron ring and sitting in a vaulted window opening. The two animals have obviously come to terms with their sad fate. One is crouching on the floor, with his back bent and huddling in on himself, staring into space, while the other is looking at the viewer....

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An angel, not the moon, illuminates the nighttime sky of this enchanting depiction of shepherds arriving to worship the sleeping Christ Child—shown remarkably robust and statue-like. Girolamo, who worked for the court at Ferrara, had visited Rome, where he studied the work of Raphael and drew from a...

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This exquisite private devotional painting contrasts Mary’s joy at the Annunciation, shown in the background, with her sorrow at the Crucifixion, where she swoons in John’s arms. The darkened sky heightens the poignancy of the Passion scene. Scattered around the cross are bones, referring to the bel...

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Close to us, a young man and four boys sit or recline in a small sailboat that tips to our left on a choppy dark green sea fringed with white foam in this horizontal painting. The billowing sail extends off the top left corner of the painting. The horizon line comes about a third of the way up the c...

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Charles Baudelaire was the first to note, in 1859, that Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) had in his atelier “hundreds of pastel studies improvised before the sea and the sky”, describing them as “the prodigious magic of air and water”. That same year, fellow artist Gustave Courbet, painting at his side, ex...

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Wooden tray with bamboo handles made between 1700 and 1950. The entire surface is coated with black Japanese urushi lacquer and decorated using the maki-e technique, where a fine gold dust is applied to the still-fresh lacquer; the umemono technique, where pieces of lead and mother-of-pearl are inla...

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From a bird’s-eye view – the only way Bruegel could legibly fit in the impressive number of figures – the viewer looks down onto a wide square with a transition from an urban to a rural setting at the edges. On the right the view opens on to a long street laid out in central perspective and leading ...

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The space of the room with a square plan (8,1 x 8,1 m) is essentially a cube, and in it Mantegna has created a monumental architectural reality by means of ribs on the ceiling connecting with pilasters on the walls, which are in turn supported by a marble socle. In the centre of the ceiling is the m...

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Van Goyen frequently painted the distinctive view of the Dutch town of Dordrecht. The bold bulk of its main church, the Groote Kerk, with its unfinished spire, dominates the view across junction of the busy river Maas. He painted it over 20 times from varying distances and in different weather condi...

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