Category: Museums
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, the only work by Jan van Eyck (about 1390/95–1441) to be held in France, is one of the Louvre’s master paintings. Jan van Eyck (Netherlands, about 1390/95–1441) Madonna of Chancellor Rolin oil on panel 66 x 62 cm Painted circa 1435 Collection of Musée du Louvre, Paris To celebrate the ...
The largest art museum in the Western United States - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art; four years later, it moved to the Wilshire Boulevard complex designed by William Pereira. The museum's wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several ...
One of the great innovators, the most influential and best-loved modernists of European abstraction, Vasily Kandinsky (Russia/France, 1866–1944) broke new ground in painting during the first decades of the 20th century. In his influential treatise, On the spiritual in art, published in 1911, he wrote about art’s potential to ‘stand alone’, with imagery independent of ...
The Scream — One of the world’s most famous artworks, a universal symbol of anxiety and it even has its own emoji. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) The Scream unsigned oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard 91 × 73.5 cm. (36 × 28.9 in.) painted in 1910? Collection of Munch Museum Munch's challenge in this painting is to depict a deafening ...
Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) oil on canvas 73.71 × 82.47 cm. (29.02 × 32.47 in.) Painted in 1844 Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art, America Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) oil on canvas 392 × 496 cm. (154 × 195 ...