Category: Museums

Art Gallery of New South Wales, founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia.

Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594–1665) Et in Arcadia ego (Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) oil on canvas 85 × 121 cm. (34.25 × 47.24 in.) painted in 1637–1638 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Nicolas Poussin – The leading painter of the classical French Baroque style A 17th-century painter, depicts a landscape in Arcadia, a mountainous ...

Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People) oil on canvas 260 × 325 cm. (102.4 × 128.0 in.) painted in 1830 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Eugène Delacroix's "Liberty Guiding the People" leaves the Louvre for restoration In 2019, the Paris museum launched a major restoration campaign for ...

The Invention of Language: Shared Revolution of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso An exhibition at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg traces the relationship between the American writer and the Spanish painter and their influences on 20th-century art and marks the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death in a place generally devoted to the broadly appealing celebration of ...

Musée du Luxembourg Exposition:  Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso — The Invention of Language To mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, the Musée du Luxembourg is staging a major exhibition on the story of the extraordinary friendship between two 20th-century icons, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a Jewish American ...

Pierre Bonnard (France, 1867–1947) Nu dans le bain (Nude in Bathtub) oil on canvas 122.56 × 150.50 cm. (48 x 59 in.) Painted c. 1940-1946 Collection of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, America Pierre Bonnard (France, 1867–1947) Nu dans la baignoire (Nude in Bathtub) oil on canvas 93 × 147 cm. (36.6 x 57.8 in.) Painted ...

Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954) Nu Bleu: Souvenir de Biskra (Blue Nude: Souvenir de Biskra) oil on canvas 92.1 x 140.3 cm. (36 1/4 x 55 1/4 in.) Painted in 1907 Collection of Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Detail of Henri Matisse's Nu Bleu: Souvenir de Biskra (Blue Nude: Souvenir de Biskra) In 1906, Matisse ...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italy, 1527–1593) La Primavera (Spring) oil on canvas 76 x 63.5 cm. (29.9 x 25 in.) painted in 1573 Part of a set of four paintings The Four Seasons by Giuseppe Arcimboldo Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France A set of four paintings The Four Seasons by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italy, 1527–1593) Giuseppe Arcimboldo ...

Jan Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675) Vista de Delft (View of Delft) oil on canvas 96.5 x 115.7 cm. (38 x 45.6 in.) painted circa 1660-1661 Collection of Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands Most of Vermeer's paintings are portraits or genre scenes. He painted only two landscapes, including this view of Delft, where the painter originated. This painting ...

Diego Velázquez (Spain, baptised 1599 - 1660) Las Meninas (The Ladies in waiting) oil on canvas 318 x 276 cm. (125.2 x 108.7 in.) painted in 1656 Collection of Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain