Saints played a very important role in the popular piety of the late Middle Ages. They were considered to be not only patrons and protectors against all manner of ills, but also mediators between the individual worshiper and God.
loincloth, stands in a shallow body of water facing another man who kneels on the bank
unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2018 Fascination Japan: Monet, Van Gogh, Klimt, Bank
With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
A leafless tree stands on the bank of the river to the right, and a grey sky stretches
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
The land rises in a sloping bank to our right, and leads back to open fields with
Recenter Visual Description A woman, Mary, sits surrounded by winged angels on a bank
a woman with pale, peachy skin reads a book with one elbow propped on a grassy bank
Cárdenas-Arroyo, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá Inter-American Development Bank
hills slope down to a misty blue-gray plain, where a river winds along a jagged bank
Visual Description We look slightly down onto a group of people gathered along the bank
tendril of roses that rises to the left in the Bruce version is replaced by a cloud bank
