Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510. The Judgement of Paris, detail.
Édouard Manet, 1863. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Raimondi was known as Raphael's official engraver, and here he reproduces a lost work of the master. In due course the arrangement of the figures in this mise-en-scène would be copied by Manet. We all learned a little at a time.. Then again, with Raphael it is no sin to go to school.
The ballet "The Flames of Paris" was staged in Leningrad for the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. The premiere took place on 7 November 1932 at the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as the Mariinsky Theatre was then called. The music was written by Boris Asafyev,
The Da Vinci theme is unexpectedly continued by one of the most uncanny of French Symbolists, Odilon Redon, with a head of the Virgin inspired precisely by Da Vinci's unfinished painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (3 photos). I photographed the Redon at the opening of
Head of a young woman, known as La Scapigliata. Leonardo da Vinci. Circa 1508. The work embodies the chief principle of the master's poetics: the conveyance of the movements of the soul through outward features. This sketch demonstrates the summit of Leonardo's sfumato technique
I have been seized by an unbounded respect for this Kurdish warrior with his cat, in a photograph of 1870