makimono, canvas roll, painting

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Pierrot content is one of a group of early works by Watteau in which the artist developed the theme of the fête galante that would be so highly appreciated during the 18th century....

Young Knight in a Landscape is one of the most famous and celebrated works in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The canvas is signed and dated on the cartellino attached to a low ...

Together with The Adoration of the Magi, now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, The Virgin and Child with Saint Rose of Viterbo was acquired in Spain by Mr Stanhope, later Lord Har...

In addition to painting scenes of street life with picturesque characters inspired by his years in Rome, Sweerts also produced a few portraits as well as a series of half-length an...

The painting shows a naked man with his head held high standing on a gilded sleigh drawn by four strong men, two pulling and two pushing. A one-eyed priest is shown in the centre o...

Bernardo Bellotto, Canaletto’s pupil and nephew, was together with his uncle one of the great painters of urban views. His repertoire of subjects, which was considerably larger tha...

In 1925, at the first exhibition of the OST, the painter I. Kudriashov presented two series of paintings: the Construction of Straight Line Movement and the Construction of Curvili...