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Rose Van Lear
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Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784-1792), 1787-88
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
Oil on canvas
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Outfitted in a splendid red costume, the son of the count and countess of Altamira is shown between a cage of finches and three wide-eyed cats who appear captivated by the boy's pet magpie. In its beak the magpie holds Goya's calling card and signature. Goya may have intended this cast of animals as a reminder of the frail boundaries that separate the child's world from the forces of evil, or as a commentary on the fleeting nature of innocence and youth. Manuel died only a few years after his portrait was painted, at the age of eight. #art #painting
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Love Is Love, 2022
Robert Peterson
Oil on canvas
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Love Is Love, 2022 Robert Peterson Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Two Angels, ca. 1330
North Italian Painter
Fresco
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These angels were once part of the fresco decoration of a chapel in the Torre della Gabbia in Mantua, probably executed about 1328 when Luigi Gonzaga became lord of the city. Detached from their original context in 1870, they had flanked a frescoed composition that included at its center a Madonna and Child with Saints Lawrence and Catherine of Alexandria. The matte surface is typical of fresco, in which the pigments sink into the support; the powerful, broadly conceived forms would have read clearly from below. #art #fresco These angels were once part of the fresco decoration of a chapel in the Torre della Gabbia in Mantua, probably executed about 1328 when Luigi Gonzaga became lord of the city. Detached from their original context in 1870, they had flanked a frescoed composition that included at its center a Madonna and Child with Saints Lawrence and Catherine of Alexandria. The matte surface is typical of fresco, in which the pigments sink into the support; the powerful, broadly conceived forms would have read clearly from below. #art #fresco
February 15, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Miss Whiting, 1923
George Copeland Ault
Oil on canvas
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Miss Whiting, 1923 George Copeland Ault Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 15, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Girl Meditating, 1916
Adolphe Borie
Oil on canvas
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Girl Meditating, 1916 Adolphe Borie Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Roses, 1890
Vincent Van Gogh
Oil on canvas
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Roses, 1890 Vincent Van Gogh Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 12, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Odalisque, 1870
Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas
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Odalisque, 1870 Auguste Renoir Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 12, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric" 1895-1896
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Oil on canvas
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Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric" 1895-1896 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 12, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Valley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain), 1909
Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)
Oil on canvas
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Valley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain), 1909 Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220
(Allegro Maestoso), 1891
Paul Signac
Oil on canvas
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Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso), 1891 Paul Signac Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Pietà, ca. 1470
Giovanni Bellini
Tempera and oil on panel, transferred to fiberglass panel
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Bellini spent his entire long career in Venice and was the city's greatest painter in the fifteenth century. He produced a range of paintings that included altarpieces, works for private devotion, portraits, and secular scenes. For small devotional works such as the Pietà, he built upon a long tradition of Byzantine icon painting that was well known in Venice, but he also incorporated a sculptural realism and an interest in the forms of ancient Roman art that he had learned from his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna. To this Bellini added his own poetic painterly touches. The Pietà shows young angels contemplating the savior's body. To fifteenth-century viewers, these putti, or spiritelli, represented youthful innocence and served as a foil to the inevitability of death, in this case through violence inflicted upon a good man. Unlike other versions of the subject, the angels here do not wail uncontrollably; instead there is something more poignant in their sad, contemplative preparation of Christ's body for veneration. The angel at left struggles to hold the lifeless torso upright, while that at right draws attention to the wounds of the Crucifixion. Infusing human emotion and introspection into a long-standing icon-based tradition of painting the Dead Christ, Bellini created a masterpiece of the early Renaissance. The painting had long been obscured by damages but recently underwent a comprehensive conservation treatment sponsored by Venetian Heritage. This exhibition celebrates that restoration, the details of which are outlined in a publication on sale in the Morgan's bookshop. #art #painting
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Portrait with a Donkey, 2023
Nicolas Party
Soft pastel on linen
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In Nicolas Party's portraits, mysterious, unidentified, genderless figures are depicted partially concealed by animals—here, a donkey. Party derives the animals in his work from the Realist paintings of nineteenth-century French artist Rosa Bonheur, who placed the living world at the heart of her life and work. Using techniques long established in the Western canon of art, Party creates figures that connect to the contemporary usage of selfies, filters, and Al applications to generate real and imagined individuals. #art #painting
February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Buildings, 1930-1931
Charles Demuth
Tempera and plumbago on composition board
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Demuth dynamically combines two ways of seeing: the shifting planes of Cubism, represented by the diagonal lines incising the surface of the canvas, and the recognizable world of the silos, water towers, and smokestacks of his hometown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The painting's tactile, textured surface also contrasts vividly with Demuth's precise draftsmanship. This is one of the later examples in a series of tempera paintings of buildings in Lancaster that the artist began in 1919. #art #painting
February 7, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Striped Shirt, 1932
Milton Avery
Oil on canvas
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Striped Shirt, 1932 Milton Avery Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Bridge Tower, 1929
Glenn D. Coleman
Oil on canvas
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When Glenn O. Coleman painted this view of New York's East River, the waterway had long been a hub for merchant ships, warships, and ferries. Here, several vessels, including a battleship, return to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A single tower of the Brooklyn Bridge dramatically emerges from its watertight caisson as the iconic suspension bridge spans the river. In the 1920s, Coleman shifted away from street-level scenes and toward precise renderings of distant views of skyscrapers, emphasizing flattened geometric planes and blocks of color, as in this work. To the artist, skyscrapers, while fascinating, were impersonal, even isolating: "One must cross a river to view them in toto... it is too far for friendship." #art #painting
February 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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Study of Two Heads, ca. 1609
Peter Paul Rubens
Oil on wood
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Rubens painted studies of heads after live models and artistic sources, creating a cast of characters that served in turn as models for figures in religious and mythological works. The main figure of this study served variously as a saint, a high priest, a river god, and the philosopher Plato. The other head, derived from one by Mantegna, had its own artistic afterlife. Rubens's disciples Jacob Jordaens and especially Anthony van Dyck followed the same practice. #art #painting
February 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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The Tears of Saint Peter, ca. 1612-13
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)
Oil on canvas
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This early work by Ribera, who was Spanish by birth but spent his career in Italy, is first mentioned in Rome in 1644 in the collection of Cardinal Benedetto Monaldi Baldeschi. The painting shows Saint Peter after he has denied Christ, his eyes red with tears and his hands clasped in prayer. The figure's pose embodies the crushing weight of his sin. Seen as a form of confession, such dramatic shedding of tears became central to Catholic devotional practices and was praised in poetry and song. #art #painting
February 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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The Guitarist, 1965
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas
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The Guitarist, 1965 Pablo Picasso Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962
Andy Warhol
Acrylic, screenprint, and graphite pencil on canvas
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Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962 Andy Warhol Acrylic, screenprint, and graphite pencil on canvas #art #painting
February 4, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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The Blind Man's Meal, 1903
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas
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In his depiction of a blind man holding bread and lightly touching a jug of wine, Picasso underscored a feeling of lonely despair through dramatic formal decisions: thin, elongated anatomy and a somber, unearthly palette. As in many canvases from his so-called Blue Period (roughly 1901-4), Picasso partially took inspiration from El Greco. The Greek artist's expressively contorted figures and colors, suggestive of religious visions, anticipated aspects of late nineteenth-century Symbolist movements with their religious undertones. #art #painting
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Christ Healing the Blind, ca. 1570
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
Oil on canvas
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El Greco painted this triumph of dramatic storytelling either in Venice or Rome; its palette, figure types, and paint handling bear the influence of Venetian Renaissance artists, notably Paolo Veronese. It shows Christ healing a blind man whose parents seem to be behind him. The canvas's upper left portion is unfinished. The architectural stage set is typical of El Greco's compositions before he largely did away with efforts at spatial structure in his later work. He made two other versions of the subject, but he may have brought this one with him when he left Italy for Spain in 1576. #art #painting
February 2, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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Peasant in the Underbrush at Moret, 1901
Camille Pissarro
Oil on canvas
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Peasant in the Underbrush at Moret, 1901 Camille Pissarro Oil on canvas #art #painting
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Seated Harlequin, 1901
Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas
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In autumn 1901, a year after arriving in Paris from Spain, Picasso painted six canvases in a singular style that inaugurated his Blue Period. Dialogue with artistic predecessors was part of this breakthrough: in this painting, Picasso looked back to café scenes by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas by way of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. For the distinctive costume of Harlequin, he was inspired by the Italian theater tradition of the commedia dell'arte, which peaked in popularity in the eighteenth century but underwent a revival during Picasso's youth. The trickster Harlequin always wears a checkered costume, while the sad clown Pierrot has a white face, ruffs, and collar—but Picasso merged the characters for his own twist on the tradition. El Greco soon joined Picasso's diverse sources of inspiration as he developed the cool palette and distant, melancholy aspects seen in his classic Blue Period paintings. #art #painting
February 1, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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The Vision of Saint John, ca. 1608-14
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
Oil on canvas
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This work is a fragment from a large altarpiece made for the church of the hospital of Saint John the Baptist in Toledo. It depicts an apocalyptic moment at the biblical end of time, based on the book of Revelation (6:9-11), a subject perfectly suited to El Greco's visionary palette and otherworldly forms. #art #painting
February 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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La Maison de La Crau (The Old Mill), 1888
Vincent Van Gogh
Oil on canvas
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In February 1888, Vincent van Gogh left the cold, dreary Paris winter behind and moved to the town of Arles in the south of France. Inspired by the landscape and light of the region, van Gogh created more than two hundred paintings in fifteen months, including The Old Mill. The artist depicted the building and its surrounding landscape with exaggerated angles and an unnatural palette. The result reflects his belief that objects did not need to be reproduced on canvas as they appeared in real life and that color should express feeling. The mill of the work's title, for example, stands out prominently against lapis blue mountains that rise to meet a seafoam sky. #art #painting
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM