Examples of Famous Works
-
Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434
-
La donna velata, Raphael, 1516
-
The Rape of Europa, Titian, 1562
-
The Raising of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens, 1610–11
-
Bust of an old man with helmet, Rembrandt, 1630
-
Innocent X, Velázquez, c 1650
-
The Toilet of Venus, François Boucher, 1751
-
The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
-
Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876
-
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890
-
The Cardplayers, Paul Cézanne, 1892
-
Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1916
Read more about this topic: Oil Painting
Famous quotes containing the words examples of, examples, famous and/or works:
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)
“Many famous feet have trod
Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed
The strength they have against the strength they need;
And famous lips interrogated God
Concerning franchise in eternity....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)