Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520): Madonna of the Goldfinch, c.1506 (Oil on poplar panel. Uffizi, Florence) - The meeting of the infant Saint John the Baptist and Christ is from an extra biblical source known as the Pseudo-Bonaventura. The Virgin is seated on a rock and in bare feet, in adherence to the…
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920): The Cellist, 1909 (Oil on canvas) - Artist Kurt Stoermer admired the painting’s “extremely subtle technique,” which, through an artistic differentiation of colours, allowed the musician to merge into his instrument and showed him in a curious state of reverie……
Károly Ferenczy (Hungarian, 1862–1917): The Woman Painter, 1903 (Oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery) - The model of “Woman Painter” was a woman from Nagybánya, who is portrayed in other Ferenczy works… The composition is built on the rhythm of the shadows of the tree trunks and sunny strips.…