Shambhawi Singh
Art Researcher
20th Century • Modernism • Italy
Jeanne Hébuterne
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20th Century • Impressionism • Italy
Bambini che studiano
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20th Century • Futurism • Italy
States of Mind I: The Farewells
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20th Century • Realism • Italy
Portrait of Lyda Borelli
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19th Century • Scapigliatura • Italy
Prince Troubetzkoy’s Children with Their Dog
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19th Century • Macchiaioli • Italy
The Dying Mazzini (Mazzini morente)
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19th Century • Impressionism • Italy
Twelve studies of Vesuvius
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19th Century • Romanticism • Italy
The Meditation
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18th Century • Neoclassicism • Italy
Head of Laocoon
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18th Century • Rococo • Italy
Capriccio with Roman Ruins, a Pyramid and Figures
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18th Century • Rococo • Italy
Venice: Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità (\'The Stonemason\'s Yard\')
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18th Century • Baroque / Rococo • Italy
The Battle between the Lapiths & The Centaurs
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17th Century • Baroque • Italy
Still Life with Birds and Fruit
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17th Century • Baroque • Italy
The Adoration of the Kings
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17th Century • Baroque • Italy
Saint Veronica
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17th Century • Baroque • Italy
Moses and the Messengers from Canaan
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17th Century • Baroque • Italy
A glass compote with peaches, jasmine flowers, quinces, and a grasshopper.
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16th Century • Mannerism • Italy
The Nativity
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16th Century • High Renaissance • Italy
Mythological Scene
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16th Century • High Renaissance • Italy
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint John the Baptist
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16th Century • Early Renaissance • Italy
Madonna and Child
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15th Century • Early Renaissance • Italy
Pallas and the Centaur
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15th Century • Early Renaissance • Italy
Hercules and the Hydra
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15th Century • Early Renaissance • Italy
The Assumption of Mary with Saints Julian and Minias of Florence
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14th Century • Gothic • Italy
Virgin and Child with Saints
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14th Century • Gothic • Italy
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saints Clare, John the Evangelist, and Francis
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Emperor Akbar Crossing the River Ganges in 1567
This painting is a refined example of Mughal miniature painting under Akbar rule. It is characterised by thin outlines for figures, precise detailing such as in the rendition of moustaches or the skin of the elephant. Other than that, the overall movement shown here as…
Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis
This fresco is a part of the church of ‘San Francesco’ in Montefalco. It was created by - Benozzo Gozzoli in 1452 and he used his artistic skills here for depicting the moment Saint Francis received the stigmata. Francis kneels on a rocky hillside -…
Parsi Lady
This portrait of a Parsi lady was painted by Manchershaw Fakirjee Pithawalla in 1920 and he signed the work along with mentioning the date with his own hand in the corner. Pithawalla spent much of his career painting people from Bombay’s Parsi community, capturing merchants,…
Venus Clipping Cupid's Wings
Charles Le Brun painted Venus Clipping Cupid’s Wings around 1655. Louis XIV’s finance minister - Nicholas Fouquet had it made to celebrate his marriage to Marie-Madeleine de Castille. The work here shows Venus, in an action mode, cutting off Cupid’s wings and taking away his…
The Triumph of Clemency
The Triumph of Clemency was painted in 1674 for the grand salone of the Palazzo Altieri and it is considered as Carlo Maratti’s most accomplished achievements as a ceiling decoration. Commissioned by Pope Clement X, the fresco shows the High Baroque Classicism that defined mature…
Wall behind the King's Seat at Diwan-i-Am in the Red Fort.
The wall in this painting once stood right behind the emperor’s throne in the Diwan-i-Am, the hall dedicated for public audience by Shah Jahan at Red Fort. Here, the artist Ghulam Ali Khan has depicted ‘parchin Kari’ on marble surface. It is a Mughal version…
Elephants in a Landscape
Two elephants crash together at the center of this small painting, tusks locked and trunks knotted tightly. A mahout has slipped between them and is likely being crushed. Above this fight, tucked in the higher section of the vertical painting, a different scene plays out…
Life of Medieval Saints
On the walls of a hall in Hindi Bhavan, Shantiniketan, the renowned Modern Indian artist Benode Bihari Mukherjee painted a fresco running nearly twenty three metres, in the year between 1946 and 1947. The saints depicted move through the work in a sequence - Ramanuja,…
The Nativity
In this work, Juan de Fandes used the slow and layered technique typical of his Flemish training which he received in Bruges. The drapery on Mary’s robe carries weight in real sense and this is presented by using light settling on raised folds and shadow…
An elephant brought to the palace gate
This painting came out of a partnership between two Mughal court artists, Mukund and Madhu, working sometime near the end of Akbar’s reign or the start of Jahangir’s. Madhu is known for portraiture, and here Mukund seems to have taken on the landscape, the crowd…
Ducks and the Reeds
This scroll was created by Lin Liang, one of the leading Cantonese painters who worked at the court of the Ming Dynasty and became known for his loose, ink-heavy style of painting birds and flowers in monochromatic scenes. Liang captures his approach to painting ducks…
The Miracle of the Slave
Tintoretto painted this in 1548 for the Scuola Grande di San Marco, and it shows Saint Mark diving down from heaven to save a slave who was about to be tortured for worshipping him against his master’s wishes. The whole canvas feels like it’s caught…
Maternity
A young mother sits on the left, leaning against a small orange tree, cradling and nursing her baby. She’s wrapped in a white veil and a blue dress. Angles with big wings and white robes are surrounding her , including three of them resting with…
Praying for the Sick
Pestonji Bomanji’s Praying for the Sick is built around one small ritual: a husband kneeling before the Afarganyu, feeding it sukhad and loban, and praying through the night for his wife to get better. She’s behind him on the bed, pale and worn out and…
Maria Brignole-Sale, Duchess of Galliera, with her son Filippo
Léon Cogniet (1794-1880), a famous portrait artist in France, created this work of Maria Brignole-Sale De Ferrari (Duchess of Galliera), seated with her second son on her lap, at the Hôtel de Matignon in Paris. The composition rests on quiet contradiction. The child leans against…
The Major makes a proposal
Fedotov catches a household mid-panic. A matchmaker has just walked a major into a merchant’s home, and nobody was ready for him. The father is caught buttoning his coat, half-dressed, trying to look presentable before he’s even had the chance. His daughter panics and turns…
Philip III of Spain
There’s something almost defensive about how López presents Philip III here. The black armor, the Golden Fleece chain, the baton pointed down at a globe underfoot: every element is doing rhetorical work, asserting dominion over a world Philip barely governed himself. His authority was used…
Veranda entwined with grapes
Sylvester Shchedrin painted this work when he was well into his years in southern Italy, and it can be seen how he’d settled into the place by how unhurried the painting feels. A pergola takes up most of the canvas. Grapevines hang down so thick…
Shiva and Parvati descends from Mt. Kailash
When Khushala picked up his brush to paint this scene, he was already heir to one of the most consequential artistic migrations in Indian history. His grandfather, Pandit Shiv Raina, a Kashmiri Brahmin painter, had left the valley when patronage dried up and settled his…
The Discovery of Pulque
The year 1867 was a crucial period in Mexican history, it was when the Republic was restored after the defeat of the Second Mexican Empire and the restored republic government led by Benito Juárez gave more focus to the pre-Hispanic themes and its representation in…
Pantheon of the Kings of León
This painting by José María Avrial Y Flores (1807-1891) provides a depiction of the Royal Pantheon, a burial chapel where the medieval kings of Léon were buried and it is located in the collegiate church of San Isidaro, founded by Alfonso V of Léon. The…
Delighted at the Prospect: The Nayika Mudita
The painting here is based on ‘Rasmanjari’, a 15th century text written by Bhanudatta which explores the classification of Nayak and Nayikas on the basis of Shringara (romantic/love) rasa. The shringara rasa is shown here through the divine love between Radha and Krishna. The nayak…
The Young Painter
This painting by the Italian artist Cesare Tallone (1853-1919) depicts two young children - the young boy, captured while painting, is shown holding a brush and a palette of multiple colours, and the young girl’s bent posture indicates her engagement, as she watches the boy’s…
Ibrahim Adilshah II playing the tambur
This painting by Farrukh Begh is based on Ibrahim Adil Shah II’s own account in the ‘Kitab-i-nauras, in which he has described himself as a Hindu god, wearing a saffron cloth with a rosary around his neck and his hands holding a musical instrument and…
Nadi Kachi Madhur Smriti by Baburao Painter
Nadi Kachi Madhur Smiriti, created by Baburao Painter in 1930, represents a modernistic representation of the ancient goddess of wisdom, Saraswati. She is shown standing barefoot on a rocky riverbank, holding a Kalash with both hands, and her gaze focused outside the purview of the…
Bird on a Rock by a Flowering Branch
In this painting, the artist has given an insight into his own observation of nature and represented it in an exquisite style. A tiny bird is shown perched on one foot on a stylised garden rock and is shown in a bent posture in order…
Persian Travelogue: A Diary of a Journey through the region of Fars
The painting is a part of a Persian Travelogue by Louise de la Marinierre, the French tutor to the Qajar princes, who travelled through the region of Fars, in present-day southwestern Iran, in the mid-1830s. The manuscript provides a combination of both text and visual…
Summer Parlor (Kajin Kozai)
The painting shows a peaceful view from the interior of a traditional Japanese house in summer. Painted in Nihonga style , the artist has suggested human presence in the painting through a well-prepared meal which is placed on a tray, overlooking the natural surroundings outside.…
Prince Qasim and the Champions of Iran and Turan
The painting depicts the welcome of Hamza’s warrior by Sanawbar Banu through an ornate gateway where a servant is unrolling a red spread before them. The women in the painting are shown in local attires which highlights the diversity of Akbar’s empire while adapting this…
Nu Couché au Coussin Bleu
Reclining nude on Blue Cushion by Amedeo Modigliani is considered as one of the most remarkable and sensual work of his career. The figure of the woman in the painting is stretched out across the canvas, and her curved and elongated body illustrates Modigliani’s characteristic…
Warrior tackling an enraged elephant
This 19th century painting belongs to the Mysore school of painting tradition which flourished under the Wodeyar dynasty in present-day Karnataka. It depicts a warrior in action pose, shooting arrows at an enraged elephant which is standing on an upward rocky ground, blooming with flowers.…
Bhima kills Kichaka and his brothers
The painting is from Razmnama, a 16th-century Persian translation of Mahabharata, and it is done in nim-qalam style. It shows the episode of Bhima killing Kichaka and his hundred and one brothers as a punishment for Kichaka’s immoral behaviour towards Draupadi. It is painted by…
Resurrezione di Lazzaro
The painting Raising of Lazarus by Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749) is related to the biblical episode from the Gospel of John (New Testament), which narrates the miracle performed by Christ through which Lazarus was resurrected after he had been dead for four days. The painting was…
The Death of Priam
The painting Death of Priam by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) allows for a grand-scale depiction of the mythological murder of the elderly Trojan King Priam by the Greek warrior Neoptoleumus. The artist has captured the emotionally powerful moment which symbolizes the brutal climax of the…