Monthly Archives: April 2012

At the library (by myself)

By myself – Seated man reading seen from behind

By myself – Boy reading

By myself – Man with newspapers on his legs

By myself – A man with tie is reading

By myself – A man wearing anorak is reading

By myself – Woman sitting in an armchair seen from rear

By myself – A man with a beret is reading

By myself – Seated man with a book on his knee

By myself – Reader resting his head on right arm

By myself – Woman waiting in front of the counter of a library

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Saints’ day. Catherine

By Grünewald – St Catherine

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Saints’ day. Mark

By Dürer – St Mark

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Saints’ day. George

By Carpaccio – St George attacking the dragon in the square

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Relationships

By Carracci – Lovers before a landscape with cupid

By Baldung, Hans (attributed) – Lovers in the lounge

By Blake, William – The Lover’s Whirlwind

By Rego, Paula – Several people’s relationship

By Procaccini, Camillo – Grotesque lovers

By Jordaens – ‘Like to like’

By Kirchner – A couple walking

By Titian – Two youths kneeling in a landscape

By Tiepolo – Cortege marital with the puppets

By Van de Velde – Lady and gentleman

By unknown authorship in old persian manuscript of the Shahnama – Zal marries Rudaba

By Della Bella – Lady with page boy

By Toulouse-Lautrec – Man and woman with umbrella

By Duchamp, Marcel – Conversation

By Sickert – Pierrot and woman embracing

By Dürer – Amorous peasants

By Redon – Centaur-man with a centaur-woman

By Meid, Hans – Couple hidden under a tree

By Steinlen – The kiss

By Fantin Latour – Two men kissing

By Goya – Peasant carrying a woman

By Schulz – Submission

By Moore – Figure studies

By Vertès, Marcel – A couple kissing in a cafe

By Petrov Vodkin – Kiss

By Schiele – Embrace

By Balthus – Lucretia and Tarquino

By Rowlandson – Love in a bathtube

By Raphael – Wedding of Alexander and Roxane

By Fragonard – The suites at the orgy

By Picasso – The kiss

By Picabia – Figures in love

By Kitaj, R. B. – Three figures are making love

By Klimt – Two naked women embracing

By Puvis de Chavannes – Two naked men

By Rodin – Sketch of a couple making love

By Eisen – Togetherness, the spirit of the phoenix

By Baldung, Hans – Resting naked lovers

By Lichtenstein – Depiction of a girl grooming in front of a seated girl

By Burne-Jones, Edward – ‘Chant d’Amour’

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Architecture, furniture and decoration

By Christo – Wrapped trees. Avenue of Champs-Élysées in Paris

By Ricci – Ornamental project for a big bed

By Guimard, Hector – Design to a chimney for Castel Beranger

By Carpeaux – Four Atlas for building facade

By Utzon – Sydney Opera House

By Carracci – Sketches of ornaments

By Gehry, Frank O. – Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

By Mendelsohn – Schocken Stuttgart Stores

By Le Corbusier – Illustration for ‘The Modulor’

By Lichtenstein – Inner

By Guardi – Figures in a vestibule

By Kupka – Unknown title

By Saarinen – First sketches for the new seat of the Parliament of Finland in Helsinki

By Wallot, Paul – Building of Reichstag in Berlin

By Sant’Elia, Antonio – Study for a power plant

By Della Bella, Stefano (attributed to) – Side view of a facade, fountain and people

By Cesariano, Cesare – Studies on the Milan Cathedral

By anonymous artist – The room of Henry Fuseli

By Mucha – Design for the ‘Pavillon de l’Homme’

By Beccafumi – Projection for painted facades

By Garnier – Slaughterhouse at La Mouche. Lyon (France)

By Carracci – Unknown title

By Wyngaerde – Arch of Berà and Scipio’s Tower

By Léger – Unknown title

By Wagner, Otto – The Postal Savings Bank in Vienna

By unknown author of Bernini, G. L. studio – Architectural project

By Piano, Renzo – Museum of Kibbutz. Israel

By Jacobus J. P. Oud & Van Doesburg, T. – Project for a workers’ housing complex in Spangen

By Soane, Sir John – Sketch of a design for the south side of the Lothbury Court, Bank of England

By Christo – The umbrellas

By Kikutake – Draft for a marine city

By Michelangelo – Study for the dome of St. Peter in Rome

By Le Corbusier – Studies for Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp

By Gaudí – Güell Palace

By Juvarra – Scenographic project for ‘Teodosio the Young’

By Mendelsohn – Einstein’s Tower in Postdam

By Borromini, Francesco – A draft to a project of the House of the Philippines in Rome

By Lloyd Wright, Frank – Guggenheim Museum

By Asplund, Erik Gunnar – Sketch for a building’s project

By Webb, Michael – Project for a ‘Center of Sin’

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Religious mixed

By Dix, Otto – Communion

By Bassano, Jacopo – An apostle

By Bruegel, Pieter – Religious practices within a temple

By unknown authorship. Arab miniature from the Maqamat of Hariri Baghdad (13th century) – Festive procession marking the end of Ramadan

By Malevich, Kasimir – Peasant women in a church

By Jordaens – An allegory of christian faith. ‘Veritas Dei’

By Goya – Procession of monks

By Bihzad – An archangel, a symbol of the divine active intelligence

By Guercino – Religious kneeling with rosary

By Michelangelo – Sketch for the Last Judgement

By Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna – Religious figure

By unknown authorship – Three figures around the Torah

By Sargent, John Singer – Shrines in the forest

By unknown authorship in a turkish miniature – Muhammad preaching to his followers

By Grünewald, Matthias – Woman praying

By Puvis de Chavannes – Procession of five saints going to the left

By Guercino – A woman acclaiming with raised arms

By Rubens – Ecclesiastical authority with miter

From Abbess Herrad of Landsberg’s Compilation – The abbess and her sisters (Garden of Delights – ‘Hortus Deliciarum’). Detail

By Giacometti – Bald and bearded prophet

By Delvaux, Paul – Priest

By Carpeaux, Jean Baptiste – Ceremony inside a temple

By Matisse – Hand and cross in the chest of a religious

By ‘El Greco’ – Standing figure praying

By unknown authorship. Flemish school – Pentecost

By Warhol – Nun

By Franco, Giovanni Battista – God the father

By Raphael – A kneeling youth

By Lichtenstein – Study for chapel of the Eucharist, Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church

By Carracci – Monk

By Bellini, Jacopo – The descent into Limbo

By Maratta – A kneeling saint with studies of hands, a foot, and a head

By Boitard, François – God the father supported by angels

By Bartolomeo, Fra – Study for an apostle for the Last Judgement

By Mantegna, Andrea – The descent into Limbo

By Carpaccio, Vittore – A praying man

By Poilleux Saint-Ange, George L. – Taking the veil in a convent

By Grünewald, Matthias – Young in an attitude of prayer

By Di Matteis, Paolo – The Last Judgement

By Tiepolo – Figures preaching and praying

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