Ecce Agnus Dei by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, dit Baciccio, around 1695-1700. This work illustrates a very young Saint John the Baptist pointing directly at Christ rather than the Lamb of the parable. Under the wing…
Return of the harvest of Abraham Bloemaert, around 1625-1630. Initially a Mannerist moving towards classicism, this Dutch painter had a Caravaggesque period following the contact with this style around 1620. This painting resulting from his…
This magnificent bust of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Ben Weider collection at MBAM is positioned in the centre of one of the front colonnades of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which offers a special urban…
The fountain of Dioscuri is located on the Quirinal Square in Rome, where you can also see the Palace of the same name, official residence of the President of Italy. Two majestic statues, representing Castor…
This bronze of 1910 is a work by Robert Tait McKenzie and represents a very beautiful naked relay rider in the idealized Greek style but with a very modern physiognomy. The haircut is very dandy…
A Belgian sculptor of great talent, Jef Lambeaux created around twenty monumental works for public space. A polemist with a very romantic personality, he got some glory in his time. Recalling the ancient sculpture of…
Jean d’Aire d’Auguste Rodin, deuxième maquette. 1885 (fonte 1971). Jean d’Aire est l’un des six personnages de l’ensemble monumental et héroïque commémorant le dernier acte symbolique de la chute de Calais après avoir finalement tombé…
The preservation of Pompeii, by its burial in the volcanic ashes of Vesuvius, has brought to our days scenes of the common life more rare. They are frescoes that in their time were more decorative…
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus is a Roman general of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he is one of the adopted sons of Augustus and the brother of the second Roman emperor, Tiberius. One of his sons is…
Bacchus (Greek, Dionysus) is the god of fertility and wine. His cult is associated with wild rituals, sensual and unbridled, where sex and drunkenness often hold a large place. Despite the decree adopted by the…
