Van Gogh | Portraits

Vincent van Gogh, known for his landscapes, seemed to find painting portraits his greatest ambition.

He said of portrait studies, "The only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else".

Vincent Van Gogh | The flowers

Vincent Van Gogh painted several versions of landscapes with flowers, as seen in View of Arles with Irises, and paintings of flowers, including Irises, Sunflowers, lilacs and roses.

Some reflect his interests in the language of color, and also in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

He completed two series of sunflowers: the first while he was in Paris in 1887, and the second during his stay in Arles the following year.

Francisco Goya | La duquesa de Abrantes, 1816

Doña Manuela Isidra Téllez-Girón y Alonso de Pimentel (1793-1838) era la figlia minore dei Duchi di Osuna (P00739) e sorella della Marchesa di Santa Cruz, anch'essa ritratta da Goya.

Nel 1813 sposò Don Ángel María de Carvajal y Fernández de Córdoba y Gonzaga (1793-1839), futuro VIII Duca di Abrantes (1816).

Come il resto dei suoi fratelli, ha ricevuto un'educazione illuminata dalla sua famiglia e tra i suoi hobby c'erano la musica ed il canto, come rivela Goya nel suo ritratto attraverso la partitura musicale.

Cesare Lapini (1848-1893) | Sorpresa

Agnolo Bronzino | Maria Magdalena, 1565

Mary Magdalene (Young Florentine Woman portrayed as the Magdalene) is an painting of about 1565 by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino.

It is now in the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.

Shoulder length representation of a young woman holding an alabaster ointment jar in her proper right hand.

She is blond, has a halo, and turns to the left.

She wears a green dress and a yellow scarf (identified as cangiant).

She has pearls in her hair.

Jean Metzinger | Woman with a Fan, 1913

Juan Gris | La chanteuse /La cantante, 1926