6 Notable Paintings at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia
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6 Paintings to Visit at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy
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The Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts are two of the great art institutions in Boston where you can see these paintings. The collections in these institutions are significantly more diverse in terms of creators and subject matter than is represented by this list.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Grainstack (Snow Effect) (1891)
In October 1890, Claude Monet wrote in a letter to his future biographer Gustave Geffroy: “I am hard at it, grinding away at a series of different effects, but at this time of the year the sun sets so quickly I cannot keep up with it….” He was describing his Grainstack series of paintings, and he went on to say that what he was after was what he called “instantaneity” the “enveloppe” of light that unifies a scene for an instant, before changing to
St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, fresco attributed to Giotto, c. 1300; in the upper church of St. Francis Basilica, Assisi, Italy.
Giotto di Bondone worked in Tuscany, Naples, northern Italy, and possibly in France. A friend of kings and popes, and Grand Master of Florence, his name was renowned. This is one of 28 frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis of Assisi in the Upper Church in San Francesco, 25 of which are attributed to Giotto. Initially an apprentice of Cimabue, Giotto later took over the painting of the frescoes, which are his earliest known work in the medium. Each fresco depicts an event in the saint’s life.