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Child [middle panel], c. 1500/1520, oil on panel, Widener Collection, 1942.9.17.b
Child [middle panel], c. 1500/1520, oil on panel, Widener Collection, 1942.9.17.b
Smith.[2] (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 November 1920, no. 84); Thomas B.
to Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th marquess of Londonderry [b.
Kress, Rush Kress, P. A. B. Widener, Joseph Widener, Lessing J.
Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer.
This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is pushed to the top, collapsing a sense of distance.
Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer.
No one parties like the gods—at least not like the mythological ones in this painting, a collaboration by the Renaissance artists Giovanni Bellini and Titian. The picture was the first in a series of bacchanals commissioned by Duke Alfonso d’Este to decorate the camerino d’alabastro (alabaster study) of his castle in Ferrara.
The slip of paper on the barrel has been inscribed, “joannes bellinus venetus p
B. Widener, the millionaire collector from Philadelphia.
This unusually large panel painting depicts three facets of Marian iconography: the Virgin’s corporeal assumption, the Immaculate Conception—the crescent moon and the radiance behind her identify Mary as the Woman of the Apocalyse, mentioned in Revelation 12:I—and the Coronation of the Virgin.
X. 1965 Chrisman, Jo, and Charles B. Fowler.
Renaissance artist Raphael was famous in his own time. It is easy to understand why.
Saint Petersburg;[3] purchased April 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P.