The Artist: Giotto is the key figure of Western painting. His emphasis on solidly described figures and his exploration of a rational pictorial space set the course of European art for the next five hundred years
B. B. "The Adoration of the Kings by a Pupil of Giotto."
The daughter of an army sergeant, Hendrickje Stoffels advanced in Rembrandt’s household from servant (by 1649) to mistress, presumed model, and common-law wife, as well as stepmother to the artist’s son Titus (1641–1668) and mother of his daughter Cornelia (1654–1685)
Stuttgart, 1904, p. 262, ill. p. 219. Wilhelm R. Valentiner.
The reconstructed portal is composed of five medieval elements. Neither the bases nor the arch of rosettes were part of the medieval monument. The two jambs of gray Carrara marble were apparently recarved from sections of antique sarcophagi
Forsyth, William H., and Margaret B. Freeman.
Catherine Benincasa was born in Siena about 1347, died in 1380, and was canonized in 1461. She was a member of the Dominican order, a mystic, and minister to the poor and plague-stricken. This picture illustrates Saint Catherine’s miraculous levitation and exchange of her bloody heart with Christ
B[attista]. Cavalcaselle.
(p. 209). Madrid. Fundación Juan March.
1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
Louchheim, Aline B. 1949. “Near-Eastern Art Placed on Display: Metropolitan Shows
Studying first with François Élie Vincent (1708–1790), a miniaturist whose Paris studio was in the same street as her father’s shop, Adélaïde Labille embarked upon her career before she was twenty
B. D. B. Gattières, 1785, p. 22 [Collection Deloynes, vol. 14, no. 345].
From the Infancy of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1913. p. 199.
From the north nave of the former Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein in Rheinland-Pflaz (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), near Koblenz, Germany; Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau (from 1818) ; [ Frédéric Spitzer Austrian, Paris (from at least 1875-1893)] ; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, nos
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. no. 29, p. 372.
London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1931. pl. XXVIII.
