A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Antonello da Messina, who according to Vasari learned the technique of oil painting directly from Van Eyck during a trip to Flanders, was the most important artist of the Sicilian ...

Spot Nr. 1 (00:34): POLAR Rum 68/1: A person dressed in fur jacket in snow flurry. „Winter time, polar time, grog time - time for Polar.“ The person is serving grog with Polar Rum....

The scene is set in a narrow city street. A young man, Quentin Dunward, clad head to foot in armour and wearing a sword secured by a red sash, stands, legs apart, on the left. He l...

Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck. The German composer is presented here as a chest pattern in the half profile facing to the right. He turned his head towards the observer, bu...

Outside the walls of a small riverside town, a procession of people, some with packaged goods, moves along the quay towards the boats in the right middle ground of the painting. Bo...

Old man with a small child, by Ṣādiqī (d. 1610). Possibly drawn from a European print source, this tinted drawing shows an old man leaning on a staff, and leading a child by the ...

“What I wanted was to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of museums.” With this aim in mind Cézanne, one of the participants in the first Impressionist...