It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
, richly detailed portrait depicts Ginevra de’ Benci, the daughter of a wealthy banker
This 19th-century dinner dress captured in the Index of American Design gives us a glimpse of how the wealthy dressed for dinner.
Morgan, a famous banker of the late 19th-century Gilded Age.
In the spring of 1871 Thomas Moran traveled to the American West for the first time. Immediately upon his return, he began producing the paintings that would change the course of his career.
Evening was purchased—perhaps commissioned—by George Frederick Tyler, a Philadelphia banker
such as the one he recorded in The Jolly Flatboatmen as a child sitting on the banks
Ginevra de‘ Benci’s portrait is two-sided. This is the back, an emblematic portrait of Ginevra.
the era and consistent with Ginevra’s elite status as the daughter of a wealthy banker
This transcendent view down the Rhine River from the hillside vineyards near Oberwesel, Germany, is a masterpiece by one of the great icons of British art, J. M.W.
For who teems like thee, / Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine?
Did you know he made it before the “Mona Lisa?” And that he finger painted? Uncover more unexpected details about the only painting by the artist in the Americas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Ginevra de’ Benci was the daughter of a Florentine banker
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Hundreds of buffalo dot the landscape along the banks of the winding river and some
The impressionist style developed as a method to render more accurately the appearance of the natural world, and was principally a technique for landscape painting. Corot, whose career began in the late 1820s when the academic tradition of landscape painting was being revived, was one of the most prolific and influential exponents of the genre.
The olive-colored water seems to have cut straight down over time, creating high banks
Jean Antoine Watteau came from a modest family in the Flemish city of Valenciennes, which had been annexed by France in 1678. He is said to have spent his formative years training under either the religious painter Jacques Albert Gérin (c.
class of patrons epitomized by Pierre Crozat (1665–1740), the immensely wealthy banker
