Saint John the Baptist is a religious High Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci. It is an oil painting on walnut wood, which originally measured 69 x 57 cm. It was completed between 1513 and 1516 and is believed to be the last painting by Leonardo. The famous painting depicts the figure of Saint John …
The Annunciation is a Renaissance painting thought to have been painted by a young Leonardo da Vinci circa 1472, while he was an apprentice at Andrea del Verrocchio’s workshop. The Annunciation was painted in oil and tempera on a large poplar wood panel with dimensions 98 x 217 cm. The painting depicts the popular Biblical …
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The painting featured here is titled Ophelia and might be the singularly most recognizable Pre-Raphaelite Painting. This oil on canvas was painted by the British artist Sir John Everett Millais between 1851 and 1852. The canvas measures 30 inches tall by 44 inches in width. What is Depicted in the Artwork? Like many of his …
The Lady of Shalott is an oil on canvas painting completed by artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) in 1888. The canvas measures 72 x 91 inches and depicts a scene from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s (1809-1892) poem of the same name. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1888. Later, the painting was …
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The sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space was made by Umberto Boccioni. Boccioni originally made Unique Forms of Continuity in Space in plaster in 1913. The original sculpture is kept at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea in Sao Paulo. The bronze castings of the Unique Forms of Continuity in Space have been made on …
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Giacomo Balla painted Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash in oil on canvas in 1912. This painting represents a futurist interpretation of chronophotographic studies of animals in motion. Balla exhibited the painting for the first time in the Galerie Der Sturm’s Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913. Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash …
