Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of oil on panel.

The Temptation of Saint Jerome, 1541–48

Giorgio Vasari

Large painting of woman, in gold and pink dress, placing severed head on platter.

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1639–42

Guido Reni

A work made of wood with traces of polychromy.

Yakushi Nyorai, 10th/11th century

A work made of oil, gravel, pebbles, and sand on masonite.

Painting, summer 1936

Joan Miró

Landscape painting featuring a wavy tree tree in the foreground and a watermill with a red roof adjacent to a river at right. Colors are subdued earth tones, the foliage a dark green and the river a muddy brown. Water flows through the mill wheel under a cloudy sky of gray and blue. Three individuals can be seen in the distance at left.

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof, c. 1665

Meindert Hobbema

A photo of dark room shows one large projection on the wall to the left and on the wall to the right two pedestals with two monitors stacked on top of both. Each screen shows a different view of a red-wigged, red-nosed clown in a striped outfit.

Clown Torture, 1987

Bruce Nauman

A light-skinned nude woman, center, struggles while a light-skinned nude man, top left, violently pulls white translucent fabric off of her. Dark red and brown textiles, a pillow, dagger, and fallen nude statue complete the scene.

Tarquin and Lucretia, 1578–80

Tintoretto

Large painting, standing man blue turtleneck, sitting woman with white collar.

Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916

Amedeo Modigliani

Painting of the Annunciation, dove flying above Mary with angel.

The Annunciation, 1490–95

Jean Hey, (the Master of Moulins)

Cubist painting of distorted gray Paris buildings, red Eiffel Tower.

Champs de Mars: The Red Tower, 1911/23

Robert Delaunay

A work made of oil on canvas.

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields, 1864

Jean François Millet

Painting depicting the god Hercules confronting the Hydra, a mythical creature. Amidst towering, rocky cliffs, Hercules stands on the left of the painting, dressed in clothing that exposes his figure. He looks to the right, where the seven-headed hydra rears up, bearing its teeth. A nude figure of a woman is on the ground in front of the Hydra, and an orange sun peeks from behind red clouds in the background.

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875–76

Gustave Moreau

A work made of chlorite phyllite.

Four-Armed Sarasvati, Goddess of Learning, Seated in Lotus Position (Padmasana), Hoysala period, 12th century

A work made of red sandstone.

Boar Incarnation of God Vishnu (Varaha) Lifting the Earth Goddess Bhudevi, 11th century

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Kylix (Drinking Cup), about 460 BCE

Penthesilea Painter

A work made of glazed stoneware with cobalt-blue underglaze.

Pear-Shaped (Yuhuchun) Bottle with Everted Lip, Late 15th/early 16th century

A work made of cuban mahogany and iron fittings.

Center Table, c. 1755

A work made of salt-glazed stoneware, polychrome enamels.

Punch Pot, 1755–65

A work made of gray earthenware, slip-coated with polychrome pigments.

Winged Beast (Tomb Figure), Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–9 A.D.)

A white-toned, blocklike sculpture with rough areas and three highly polished nude figures emerging from the rough portions. In front, a mournful man and woman grasp tightly at each other's hands while from behind, another figure buries his head in his own crossed arms, the woman's upturned hand holding onto them.

The Solitude of the Soul, Modeled in plaster 1901; sculpted in marble 1914

Lorado Taft

<<<654655656657 >>>