Napoleon Crossing the Alps Artist: Jacques-Louis David

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

(also known as Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps)

Artist: Jacques-Louis David

Is the title given to the five versions of an oil on canvas equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David  between 1801 and 1805. Initially commissioned by the King of Spain, the composition shows a strongly idealized view of the real crossing that Napoleon and his army made across the Alps through the Great St. Bernard Pass in May 1800

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

(in yellow cloak)

French Neoclassicism - Artist: Jacques-Louis David

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife

Artist: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)

Date: 1788 Medium: Oil on canvas

This great double portrait was painted when the artist, at the peak of his powers, had become the standard-bearer of French Neoclassicism. Lavoisier is known for his pioneering studies of oxygen, gunpowder, and the chemical composition of water. In 1789 he published a treatise on chemistry illustrated by his wife, who is believed to have been David's pupil. Lavoisier was involved in a political scandal which led him to withdraw the present painting from the 1789 Salon. Despite his service to the revolutionary regime, he was guillotined.

Lisa del Giocondo Entrée for the Passion Of Art

Leonardo da Vinci

Lisa del Giocondo 2'6"x1'9"

High Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci

(close-up detail)

Lisa del Giocondo Entrée for the Passion Of Art 

The Mona Lisa by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci: acclaimed as "the best known,

the most visited, the most written about, work of art in the world".

The idea of fine art throughout history in its broadest sense is reciprocal. An extraordinary and powerful dialog between the artist (the creator) and the viewer; an intimate communication that can stir and infinitely stretch the depth of our emotions.Art per se can be described as an "creative human endeavor" a creative impulse, as opposed to survival and human reproduction.

Fine art throughout history from the first Cave Paintings, Renaissance, Impressionists to Contemporary times has many realities and reasons to be:
Art as entity. Art as form. Art as ritual. Art as mystical and religious. Art as emotion on many levels. Art as an out of body experience. Art as bliss. Art as collectible. Art as utilitarian. Art as the precursor to historical events. Art as allegorical. Art for investment. Art as a form of play. Art as visual music. Art as poem. Art can be perceived as beautiful or ugly (subjective). Art for arts sake. 'Ars', loosely translated, means 'arrangement' or 'to arrange'. And so on.

Art is a natural extension of life and as life giving as breathing.

I had the good fortune to grow up in New York City in Manhattan, just off of 5th Avenue. My family lived a few blocks away from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of New York and all of the other famous museums and galleries in the area. As a toddler my wonderful parents would take me to those miraculous museums and galleries that lined 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue.
As a young toddler I would marvel at the wondrous (giant sized) works of, Ingres, Chagall, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Leutze, Renoir, Corrot, Dali and all of the masters the museums had to offer. Only years later as a young adult could I truly appreciate what I had seen previously through the eyes of a young child.

Fine art has remained my passion and personal bond. There is always so much to discover in the world of art. It will forever remain a visual feast for us to enjoy.

Those early years of discovering art had prepared me for a lifetime of fine art appreciation. I studied art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and became an artist, art director, and art collector.I subsequently created Paintings To Go, Inc., and the http://www.paintingstogo.com website. It gives me great pleasure to share my passion and to make fine art accessible to fine art lovers throughout the world. As an art entrepreneur I chose to specialize in fine art reproductions, of famous paintings, original art and fine art portraits. Creating fine art reproductions is and has remained a passion to enjoy and share.

Charles de Solier, Comte Sieur de Morelle

Hans Holbein the Younger
Charles de Solier, comte de Morette

(1480 – 1 February 1552)

The son of Aubertin de Solier, comte de Morette (1465–1545), was a French soldier and
diplomat. He acted as ambassador to England on a number of occasions from October 1526 to June 1535. Morette was in London in 1534 when Henry VIII was attempting to win French support for his repudiation of Catherine of Aragon, in an alliance against Charles V.



Portrait of Henry VIII - Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of Henry VIII

(28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547)

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII.
Henry is known for his consequential role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, besides his six marriages and many extramarital affairs, as well as his effort to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which led to conflict with the Pope. His disagreements with the Pope led Henry to separate the Church of England from papal authority, with himself as king and as the Supreme Head of the Church of England;
the disputes also led to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 

Rubens and Hélène Fourment

 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens
(28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640)
Flemish Baroque painter

Rubens and Hélène Fourment

Hélène Fourment was the daughter of Daniël Fourment, an Antwerp silk merchant, and Clara Stappaerts. They had four sons and seven daughters, including Clara (born 1593) and Susanna (1599-1628), who were both also painted by Rubens.Hélène was the youngest of the 11 Fourment
children.Hélène Fourment married Rubens on 6 December 1630, when she was 16 years old and he was aged 53. His first wife, Isabella Brant, had died in 1626. Hélène's brother Daniël Fourment the younger was married to Clara Brant, the sister of Isabella. Daniël Fourment the elder was an art lover and possessed works by Rubens and Jacob Jordaens, and works by Italian masters.

Hans Holbein the Younger - Edward the VI

 

Hans Holbein the Younger

Edward the VI as a child

Edward was born on 12 October 1537 in his mother's room inside Hampton Court Palace, in Middlesex. He was the son of King Henry VIII. by his third wife, Jane Seymour. Throughout the realm, the people greeted the birth of a male heir, "whom we hungered for so long",
with joy and relief. Queen Jane, appearing to recover quickly from the birth, sent out personally signed letters announcing the birth of  "a Prince, conceived in most lawful matrimony between my Lord the King's Majesty and us". Edward was christened on 15 October, with his half-sisters, the 21-year-old Lady Mary as godmother and the 4-year-old Lady Elizabeth carrying the chrisom;
and the Garter King of Arms proclaimed him as Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester. The Queen, however, fell ill on 23 October from presumed postnatal complications, and died the
following night. Henry VIII wrote to Francis I of France that "Divine Providence hath mingled my joy with bitterness of the death of her who brought me this happiness".

Peter Paul Rubens - Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria 1606

 

Peter Paul Rubens

Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria 1606

The Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria is an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, dating to 1606. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It was commissioned by Marquess Giacomo Massimiliano Doria of Genoa, and shows his wife (and cousin) shortly after their wedding in 1605; she came from the equally prominent Spinola family. He died in 1613 and she remarried another Doria. It has been cut several times on each side, removing the garden shown in the background and the lower part of the figure.

Portrait of a Young Merchant - Han Holbein the Younger

Han Holbein the Younger

Portrait of a Young Merchant

Hans, the Younger Holbein (c. 1497 - between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known for his numerous portraits and his woodcut series of the Dance of Death, and is widely considered one of the finest portraitists of the Early Modern Period

Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of A Young Merchant

Hans Holbein the Younger 

Portrait of A Young Merchant
(close-up)

Hans, the Younger Holbein (c. 1497 - between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known for his numerous portraits and his woodcut series of the Dance of Death, and is widely considered one of the finest portraitists of the Early Modern Period



New York Loves "Starry Night"

Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh

 

Starry Night has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. It is regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, and is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of Western culture.



Flaming June - Sir Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA

 

Sir Frederic Leighton

Flaming June

 

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, and classical subject matter.

 

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"Art has the power to create a conversation" Rembrandt van Rijn - Nightwatch

Rembrandt van Rijn
 Nightwatch

 "Finding artwork appropriate to each interior space creates balance and makes a statement,"


The right oil painting can enhance your interior space in subtle ways you might never have imagined.

Pablo Picasso

Femmes d Alger

"Art has the ability to create a conversation, make us laugh, or tell a story." The right oil painting can enhance your interior space in subtle ways you might never have imagined.


We honor the power of art to calm our senses, focus our attention, challenge our intellect, and expand our imagination.

 

Keith Haring

 

Botticelli

 

 

Norman Rockwell

 

Art has the ability to create a conversation, make us laugh, or tell a story. The right oil painting can enhance your interior space in subtle ways you might never have imagined."       

 We honor the power of art to calm our senses, focus our attention, challenge our intellect, and expand our imagination.  



PaintingsToGo® Fine Art Collection Inspired by The Italian Renaissance

Ginerva de Benci

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)

The Lady with an Ermine

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo, (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpiecesMany historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man"

 

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You Deserve The Riches of Fine Art. Johan Zoffany, Neoclassical Painter

 Charles Townley and friends in his library, by Johan Zoffany.

 



Johan Zoffany, Zoffani was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England. His works appear in many prominent British National galleries such as the National Gallery of London,  the Tate Gallery, and in the Royal Collection.

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Infuse Your Life With the Inspiration and Beauty of Claude Monet Oil Paintings

 

Water Lilies (Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings depict Monet’s own flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.

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Primavera by Sandro Botticelli - Precious Works Of Art We Yearn To Possess.

Primavera (c. 1482)

 Icon of the springtime renewal of the Florentine Renaissance, also at the summer palazzo of Pierfrancesco de' Medici, as a companion piece to the Birth of Venus Left to right: Mercury, the Three Graces,  Venus,  Flora,  Chloris,  Zephyrus

 

The Birth of Venus

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Auguste Renoir French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

The Theater Box, 1874

 

Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881

 

Two Sisters, 1881
 

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings