A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer.
A play and a painting appear to have merged in Jan van Eyck’s dramatic Annunciation , which is rich with Christian symbolism. The rainbow-winged archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son.
, Saint Petersburg;[3] purchased June 1930 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P.
A painting may provide a “window� into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
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–B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard.
A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
Wehle, Harry B.
Milan, 1968: 100. 1972 Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri.
Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work is one of three known paintings from a cycle by Jacopo Tintoretto depicting the personifications of the four Seasons.
Manning, Bertina. “Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto in the Collection of Walter P.
B. 1938 "Notable Works of Art Now on the Market."
This large painting of the Madonna and Child was in the center of an altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist, which also featured The Baptism of Christ and The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist (see Reconstruction ). The altarpiece’s original location is not known, though it was probably featured in a church dedicated to the saint in what is today the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, close to Giovanni Baronzio’s home in Rimini.
The Arts 5 (1924): 240 (repro.), 245. 1925 McCormick, William B. "Otto H.
204; oval Spitzer sale label; older hand-written label, reading "Page 321.No 21.B.
