Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
coordinator of archival and field research in Mali and the Ivory Coast for the Franco-German
The Background: Between 1649 and 1651, Velázquez travelled to Italy for the second and last time in his life. The main purpose of the trip was to buy paintings and sculptures for King Philip IV of Spain, and while he was in Rome, the painter also received the prestigious commission to portray Pope Innocent X (the canvas is now in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome)
Borja Franco Llopis. "Crónica de ‚Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic painter‘."
The Artist: For a biography of Jan van Eyck, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Paintings: In unusually tall, narrow paintings, the Crucifixion and Last Judgment emphasize the narrative features of these well-known biblical themes prophesied in Isaiah and related in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the Crucifixion, and in Deuteronomy and the Book of Revelation for the Last Judgment
"’Highlands‘ in the Lowlands: Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flemalle and the Franco-Italian
Inscription: (On scroll): . Ave . / . gracia . / . ple / na . (Hail [Mary] full of grace)Marking: Arms [on shield held by two angels, center top]: Vilanova of Castile, Catalonia, etc
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1922. no. 1, pp. 25–26.
[Ambroise Vollard, Paris, sold by winter 1924 to Reber]; Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lugano and Lausanne (1924–37; sold in November 1937 to Cooper); Douglas Cooper, London (1937–d. 1984; inv. no. 65; estate no. DC 35/34; his bequest to McCarty-Cooper); his partner and adopted son, William McCarty-Cooper, London (1984–86; sold in November 1986 to Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (1986–2013; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust); The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (2013–21; gift to MMA)
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino. L’opera completa di Picasso cubista.
Georges de La Tour’s Fortune Teller is one of the painter’s early masterpieces. It has been variously dated between 1620 and 1639, and it is most likely from the 1630s. The canvas is signed at top right: G
century, some of which were engraved"; also connects them with the sixteenth-century Franco-Flemish
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ca. 1504: Francisco de Almeida becomes first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese
