Nikos Ghika, Hydra landscape (c.1950s) + John Craxton, Landscape, Hydra (1961) In the 1950s, Craxton often stayed at Ghika’s house on the Greek island of Hydra. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #JohnCraxton #NikosGhika #Hydra

Edvard Munch, Starry Night (1893) + Van Gogh, Starry Night (1889) Munch attended—and was greatly influenced by—the Van Gogh retrospective held in Brussels in 1881 #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #EdwardMunch #VanGogh #Landscape #StarryNight

Caspar David Friedrich, The Tree of Crows (1882) + Johan Christian Dahl, Megalithic Tomb in Winter (1824–25) The Norwegian painter (Dahl) moved to Dresden where he became friends and housemates with Friedrich. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #JohanChristianDahl #CasparDavidFriedrich #Landscape

John Singer Sargent, White Mule (1905) + Alberto Falchetti, White Mule (1905) The two artists travelled together in Palestine where, under Sargent’s influence, Falchetti started to paint in a more Impressionistic style. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #JohnSingerSargent #AlbertoFalchetti #Mule

Ingres, Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832) + Picasso, Gertrude Stein (1905–06) + Vallotton, Gertrude Stein (1907) Both portraits of Gertrude Stein have been (somewhat rudely) compared to Ingres’ picture #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #GertrudeStein #Picasso #Vallotton #Ingres

Caravaggio, Seven Acts of Mercy (1606) + Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) Tenebrism (dramatic illumination) was invented by Caravaggio and re-employed by Wright. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Caravaggio #WrightOfDerby #Chiaroscuro #Tenebrism

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–43) + Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (1942) Two very different takes on New York, though painted in the same year. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Mondrian #Hopper #NewYork

John Piper, Coventry Cathedral Ruins (1940) + Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in the Oakwood (1809–10) Two ruins: Piper’s cathedral destroyed in during World War 2, Friedrich’s abbey during the Thirty Years War #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #JohnPiper #CasparDavidFriedrich #Ruins

Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831) + Van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889) Both paintings feature Prussian blue, a synthetic colour first available in the 18th century. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #VanGogh #Hokusai #PrussianBlue #Blue

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (1864-70) + John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851–52) The model for both paintings was Elizabeth Siddal #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Millais #Rossetti #ElizabethSiddal

Crivelli, Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c.1491-4) + Crivelli, Madonna and Child (c.1480) A sign of an artist’s skill since Giotto, both works feature a trompe l’œil fly—painted out of scale—that appears to have landed on the paintings #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Crivelli #TrompeLOeil #fly

Van Dyke, George Villiers and Lord Francis Villiers (1635) + Gainsborough, The Blue Boy (c.1770) Dressing up in in ‘Van Dyke masquerade'—fashions long since past—was common in Gainsborough’s Britain #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #VanDyke #Gainsborough

Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533) + Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture (2012) Both works feature anamorphic projection — a skull in Holbein’s picture and a blond woman in Marshall’s #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Holbein #KerryJamesMarshall #Anamorphic

Pieter Bruegel, The Tower of Babel (1563) + Endre Rozsda, The Tower of Babel (1958-61) Two—very different—interpretations of the Babel story #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Bruegel #Rozsda #TowerOfBabel

Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) + Monet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1865-66) Monet’s painting is a response to Manet’s. Zola, in his novel L’Oeuvre, described it as a “storm in a cream jug”. #Manet #Monet #Impressionism #Picnic #Lunch

Bronzino, Eleanor of Toledo with Her Son Giovanni (1544–45) + Alessandro Allori, Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici (c.1580–1614) Bronzino taught and later adopted Allori. After Bronzino died, Allori often referred to himself as Bronzino #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Bronzino #Allori #Portrait

Manet, La Parisienne (1874) + Degas, The Absinthe Drinker (1875-76) Both paintings feature the same model, Ellen Andrée who can also be spotted in Renoir’s famous ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’ #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Manet #Degas #ElenAndree #Model

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X (1884) + Gustave Courtois, Madame Gautreau (1891) + Antonio de La Gándara, Madame Pierre Gautreau (1898) 3 portraits of Mme Gautreau made (in)famous by Sargent #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Portrait #SingerSargent #MmeGautreau

Picasso, The Glass of Beer (Portrait of the Poet Sabartes) (1901–02) + Michael Ayrton, Portrait of John Minton (1941) Ayrton (and his subject, the artist John Minton) were influenced by Picasso’s ‘blue period’ #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Portrait #Picasso #MichaelAyrton #JohnMinton #Blue

Jacob Epstein, Iris Beerbohn Tree (1915) + Vanessa Bell, Iris Tree (1915) + Augustus John, Miss Iris Tree (1920) Three portraits of the same woman: Iris Tree—poet, muse and actor #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #VanessaBell #AugustusJohn #JacobEpstein #Model #Portrait #IrisTree

Sir Frederic Leighton, Flaming June (1895) + Edgar Degas, After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (1890–95) Both paintings were—despite radically different styles—completed in the same year. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #FredericLeighton #FlamingJune #Degas #1895

Joshua Reynolds, Jane, Countess of Harrington (1778) + John Singer Sargent, Daisy Leiter (1898) 2 ‘swagger’ portraits—display and social aspirations. Sargent's American heiress performs as a British aristocrat (which she became) #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Portrait #SingerSargent #JoshuaReyolds

Flora Yukhnovich, Oil on linen (2022) + Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Ca' Rezzonico ceiling (1758) British artist Yukhnovich creates abstract responses to Tiepolo and other 18th century rococo painters #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Tiepolo #FloraYukhnovich #Yukhnovich #Venice #CaRezzonico

Hans Memling, Triptych of the Resurrection (c.1490) + Hans Süss von Kulmbach, Ascension (1513) 2 ‘disappearing Christ’ images—a motif originating in 10th century English manuscripts, in which only Jesus' feet and lower legs are showing #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #HansMemling #Memling #Ascension

John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) + Velazquez, Las Meninas (1656) Critics—including Henry James—wrote of Sargent's debt to Velázquez. The two paintings were exhibited side-by-side at the Prado in 2010 #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #SingerSargent #Velazquez “LasMeninas

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Frederikke Hammershøi (1886) + James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871) Contemporary critics called Hammershøi the ‘Danish Whistler’, an influence he openly acknowledged #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Portrait #Hammershøi #Whistler #Mother

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c.1818) + Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced (1937) Magritte plays with the ‘rückenfigur’ (rear-facing figure) composition popularised by Friedrich #SideBySide #Art #Portrait #ArtHistory #CasparDavidFriedrich #Magritte #Ruckenfigur

Philippe de Champaigne, Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu (c.1642) + van Dyck, Charles I in Three Positions (1636) Two multi-angle studies created and sent to Rome to enable lifelike sculptures. #SideBySide #Art #Portrait #ArtHistory #Richelieu #CharlesI #TriplePortrait

Philip Alexius de Laszlo, Portrait of Oonagh Guinness (detail, 1931) + Lucian Freud, Girl in Bed (1952) Family resemblance? Oonagh Guinness (Laszlo) was the aunt of Caroline Blackwood (Freud). #SideBySide #Art #Portrait #ArtHistory #OonaghGuinness #LucienFreud

El Greco, The Disrobing of Christ (1577–79) + Vermeer, The Girl with the Wine Glass (c.1659) Both paintings feature rose madder, a luminous red derived from the root of the plant Rubia tinctotum #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Vermeer #ElGreco #RoseMadder #Red #Colour

Portrait of a Young Woman (c.250-300) + Modigliani, Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne (1918) Modigliani repeatedly sketched the Fayum ‘mummy’ portraits in the Louvre. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #Portrait #ArtHistory #FayumMummy #Modigliani #JeanneHebuterne

Jean Siméon Chardin, Glass of Water and Coffee Pot (1760) + Georgio Morandi, Still Life (1955) Morandi cited Chardin as a model for the quiet sobriety in his still life compositions #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Chardin #Morandi #GeorgioMorandi #StillLife

Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape (1938) + Matisse, The Red Studio (1911) Stuart Davis described the 1913 Armory Show—which included this Matisse work—as “the greatest single influence I have experienced in my work.” #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Matisse #StuartDavis #ArmoryShow

Michelangelo, Deposition aka Pietà Bandini (c.1547-55) + Jenny Saville, Pietà I (2019-21) Saville 9-foot drawing was inspired by Michelangelo’s pietà, with which it was exhibited in Florence in 2021. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Michelangelo #JennySaville #pieta #deposition

Eva Gonzalès, The Full-Length Mirror (La Psyché) (c.1869-70) + Velázquez, Rokeby Venus (1647-51) Gonzalès admired Velázquez greatly and explored the theme of a woman studying herself in a mirror #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #EvaGonzales #Velazquez #Mirror #Reflection

Michelangelo, ignudo detail from the Sistine Chapel (1508-12) + William Blake, Newton (1795) Blake idolised Michelangelo, especially for his sculptural figures. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Michelangelo #WilliamBlake #Newton

4 Dürer self-portraits: 1484 + 1493 + 1498 + 1500 The three-quarter pose was considered the most difficult. A frontal pose was associated with religious art, especially images of Christ. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #AlbrechtDurer #Durer #Portrait

Georges Braque, Maisons à l'Estaque (1908) + Paul Nash, Wood on the Downs (1929) Nash was influenced by cubist paintings. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Braque #PaulNash #Cubism

Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci (1474–1478) + Giorgione, Laura / Portrait of a Young Bride (1506) Giorgione uses Leonardo’s sfumato (smokey) technique to soften the contours around the face of the woman #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Leonardo #Giorgione #Portrait

Pool construction manual + David Hockney, A Bigger Splash (1967) Hockney acknowledged he had used “a photograph I found in a book about how to build swimming pools I found on a news stand in Hollywood.” #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #DavidHockney #ABiggerSplash

Filippo Lippi, Martelli Annunciation (c.1440) + Sandro Botticelli, The Cestello Annunciation (1489) Botticelli, apprenticed to Lippi, later paints an annunciation that includes many elements of Lippi’s conception. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #FilippoLippi #Botticelli #Annunciation

Velázquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X (c.1650) + Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Velazquez #FrancisBacon #PopeInnocentX

Canaletto, Entrance to the Cannaregio (c.1734-42) + Algernon Newton, Canal Basin (1929) Newton studied Canaletto in the National Gallery—even using a magnifying glass to identify the exact colours of his duo-chrome underpainting. #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Canaletto #AlgernonNewton

JMW Turner, Staffa-Fingal's Cave (1831) + Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue) (1953) Rothko admired Turner and once joked: “This man Turner, he learnt a lot from me.” #SideBySide #Art #Painting #ArtHistory #Turner #Rothko #Landscape

Winged bull, Palace of Sargon II (710-705 BC) + Jacob Epstein, Tomb of Oscar Wilde (1914) The Assyrian bulls in The British Museum (and Wilde's poem The Sphinx) influenced Epstein’s conception #SideBySide #Art #Sculpture #OscarWilde #JacobEpstein #Assyria

Paul Nash, The Menin Road (1919) + Edward Burtynsky, Nickel Tailings #34-35 (1996) Environmental destruction in WWI and now #SideBySide #Art #PaulNash #MeninRoad #Burtynsky

JMW Turner, Clouds at Sunset, (c.1823–30) + Tacita Dean, LA Magic Hour 6 (2021) #SideBySide #Art #Clouds #Turner #TacitaDean #MagicHour

Caspar David Friedrich, The Chasseur in the Forest (1814) + Anselm Kiefer, Varus (1976) Kiefer expands Friedrich’s Napoleonic war moment to cover all of German history. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #CasperDavidFriedrich #AnslemKiefer

Édouard Manet, Olympia (1863) + Titian, Venus of Urbino (1532-34) Manet inspired by Titian: direct gaze, naked form, servant, white bedclothes, dog / cat #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #Manet #Titian

El Greco, Saint Martin and the Beggar (c.1597–1600) + Pablo Picasso, Boy Leading a Horse (1905–06) Picasso studied in Madrid, where he saw El Greco’s works at the Prado. #SideBySide #Art #ArtHistory #ElGreco #Picasso