1. Claude Monet
Woman With A Parasol, Facing Left
The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait. That woman represents his wife and son.
Created: 1875
Size: 1 m x 82 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: National Gallery of Art East Building
The Water Lily Pond
These water lilies painting was the smaller series of eighteen views over his other painting, the Japanese footbridge over his pond.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 93 cm x 74 cm
Created: 1899
Medium: Oil Paint
Impression, Sunrise
The painting is attributed to giving rise to the name of the Impressionist Movement.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 48 cm x 63 cm
Location: Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris
Created: 1872
2. Leonardo Da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
This woman dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day is a remarkable instance of Leonardo’s technique of soft, heavily, shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa’s enigmatic expression Which seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame.
Created: 1503
Size: 77 cm x 53 cm
Location: The Louvre
Medium: Oil on wood
The Last Supper
The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus and his apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John. Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him.
Size: 4.6 m x 8.8 m
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
Medium: fresco-secco
La Bella Principessa
The portrait which is used of coloured chalks and ink, on vellum, of a young lady in fashionable costume and hairstyle of a Milanese of the 1490’s.
Created: 1495-1496
Size: 33 cm x 23.9 cm (13 in x 9.4 in)
Medium: trois crayons (black, red, & white chalk), laid on oak panel
Location: Vinci, Italy
3. Pablo Picasso
Sylvette
Finding her appearance appealing, Picasso created 40 works inspired by her. This portrait is one of the last long series.
Created: 1954
Size: 97.2 cm
Location: Rotterdom
Medium: Mixing paint like newspaper and sand, powdered pigment
Mother & Child
This painting was inspired by Picasso’s own life. Picasso’s treatment of mother and child is not sentimental, but the relationship between the figures expresses serenity and stability.
Location: Art Institute of Chicago Building
Size: 1.43 m x 1.73 m
Created: 1921
Medium: Oil Paint
Girl with mandolin
This artwork was one of Picasso’s early Analytic Cubist creations. Picasso’s ideas lead him to paint the subject as she sat down in front of him and he analyzed his subject.
Created: 1910
Size: 1m x 74 cm
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Medium: Oil paint
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