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With the exception of the photographs he made on his 1894 trip to Europe and those
With the exception of the photographs he made on his 1894 trip to Europe and those
A humanist and polymath, Alberti in his treatises laid theoretical foundations for Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. This relief is a milestone in the history of portraiture, and it is the earliest independent self-portrait.
Gallery of Art Dreyfus, Gustave Exhibition History 1865 Musée Rétrospectif, Union
Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
He was among the most powerful men in Europe in the late 1400s.
September 1–October 31, 2013 The „Episteme of Lines“: Printed Drawing Books in Europe
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lions, brought him enormous success as an artist, patronized by royalty all over Europe
This painting and the Enthroned Madonna and Child are the oldest paintings on the National Gallery of Art’s walls.
Painting on wooden panel had not been common in medieval Europe as church decorations
Clayton, a Minnesotan farmer and newly enlisted soldier; she is photographed in a Union
He read widely and on trips to Europe in 1907 and 1909 saw exhibitions, visited dealers
following the horrific destruction of World War I, America could “no longer be of Europe