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A series of slideshow on the global art galleries. The Norton Simon Art Gallery in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California.<br>
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Norton Simon Museum Pasadena, Los Angeles, California First created. 10 December 2010. Version 2.0 – 12 May 2016. London. Jerry Tse All rights reserved. Available free for non-commercial and non-profit use only
Auguste Rodin On arrival visitors are greeted by to well-known sculptures by Auguste Rodin. On the left is The Burghers of Calais (1897), it is a sculpture of 6 Calais townspeople who offered their lives to save their fellow citizens. On the right is the French novelist literate giant, Balzac who wrote about complex, morally ambiguous and fully human characters.
Medieval Madonna and Child. c1340. Tempera on panel. Paolo Veneziano. Italian. He has been called “the most important Venetian painter of the 14th century”. Note that baby Jesus looks more a small man than a baby.
High Renaissance This Botticelli’s painting needs restoration, with its primer showing through giving the painting a greenish appearance. On the right show what the painting maybe like.
High Renaissance St Benedict and Apollonia. c1483. Oil on panel. Filippino Lippi. Italian.
High Renaissance St Paul and Frediano. c1483. Oil on panel. Filippino Lippi. Italian. Filippino Lippi is the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who may have trained Sandro Botticelli .
High Renaissance Madonna and Child with Book. 1502-03. Oil on panel. Sanzio Raffaello (Raphael). Italian. Raffaello was well-known for painting Madonna and Child. In his earlier years, he painted a stream of Madonna and Child. His Madonna and Child paintings were well loved, as he painted the affection between Madonna and the baby Jesus.
German Renaissance Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and a friend of Martin Luther. Adam and Eve. c1530. Oil on panel. Lucas Cranach the Elder German.
German Renaissance This German Mona Lisa was painted at least 25 years after Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.
Baroque Baroque
Baroque Rubens was a wealthy Flemish diplomat, popular with nobility and art collectors. He was well-known for his mythological and allegorical subjects.
Dutch Golden Age Rembrandt was an icon of 17C, Dutch Golden Age.
Dutch Portraitist Frans Hals was, one of the best portrait painters of the 17C.
A masterpiece by Jan Steen Dutch Golden Age
Spanish Painting Quite unusual to find an early 17C still-life by a well-known Spanish master.
Spanish Romaticism Goya was a painter of the Enlightenment era. He was known for his paintings on the horror of the French conquest of Spain.
Italian Veduta Luca Carlevarijs was the first to popularize the Italian Veduta paintings (views of Venice). This movement is well represented in the gallery by the additional paintings by Canaletto and Guardi.
French Landscape An unusual painting by Corot, who normally painted just landscape.
French Realism Also an unusual painting by Courbet, who led the 19C Realist movement in France.
Impressionist Monet, the founder of French Impressionism.
Ragpicker. C1865-70. Oil on canvas. 195x131 cm. Edouard Manet. French. Impressionist A very large and impressive painting by Edouard Manet. “The Ragpicker” is a group of 7 monumental paintings of a single figures. This painting was inspired by Velazquez‘s “Philosophers”. The painting was based on the idea that poverty and wisdom are linked. Beggars, ragpickers, drunks and peasants were often featured as characters in both literature and paintings.
Impressionist A different style of painting normally associated with Renoir.
Impressionist Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878-81. Bronze. Edgar Degas. French.
Impressionist Works of Degas are well represented in the museum.
Post Impressionist Only three years separates between the two portraits.
Modern Woman in a Moorish Costume (Detail). 1869. Oil on canvas. Frederic Bazille. Spanish.
Modern Bust of a Woman. 1923. Oil with black chalk on canvas. Pablo Picasso. Spanish.
