
Title: The battle of Issus
Author: Albrecht Altdorfer
Year: 1529
Style: Renaissance
Media: oil, wood
Location: Bavarian State Painting Collections – Germany
Title: The battle of Issus
Author: Albrecht Altdorfer
Year: 1529
Style: Renaissance
Media: oil, wood
Location: Bavarian State Painting Collections – Germany
Title: Boulevard of Capucines
Author: Claude Monet
Year: 1873
Style: Impressionism
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Title: Thor’s Battle with the Giants
Author: Carl Johan Bonnesen
Year: 1926
Medium: bronze
Location: Odense – Denmark
Author: François Boucher
Title: The Rising of the Sun
Genre: mythological painting
Year: 1753
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: The Wallace Collection – London
Author: John Martin
Title: Macbeth
Year: 1820
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Scottish National Gallery
Author: Canaletto
Title: The Interior of the Rotunda, Ranelagh, London
Year: 1754
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Compton Verney Art Gallery
Vincent van Gogh ~ self-portrait
Year: 1886
Style: Post-Impressionism
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
~Basic information~
The Palace of Versailles is a French royal palace located in the Ile de France region, about 15 miles south west of Paris, France, that was built for King Louis XIV in the late 1600s. The Palace of Versailles required the work of approximately 3000 people to construct the building and the grounds. There are more than 700 rooms, including 1,200 fireplaces and 60 staircases in the Palace of Versailles. In today’s money it would have cost roughly $2 billion to build. In 1682 the French government moved to Versailles and it remained there for almost 100 years. In 1789 a mob took the Palace and the French Revolution began.
Author: Antoine-François Calle
Title: Jupiter and Ceres
Year: 1777
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Museum of Fine Arts