Billowing clouds sweep across the sky in Jan van Goyen’s engaging portrayal of the lively waterways near Dordrecht. While sailboats and dinghies filled with men and women come and go, the most active elements of the painting are the shifting patterns of light and shade passing over this watery domain.
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The order to portray a subject who had died decades earlier did not faze Bernini. Working from a painting, the soon-to-be famous baroque artist summoned up the beloved uncle of his friend Matteo Barberini, newly elected Pope Urban VIII.
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Delacroix saw North Africa as a simpler, uncorrupted society compared to modern Europe. He believed North African men were braver and more manly, like the warriors of ancient Greece and Rome.
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This painting belongs to a triptych, which also includes Madonna and Child, with Blessing Christ and Saint Mary Magdalene, with an Angel . The image represents Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who is identified by her crown and by the wheel of martyrdom she supports with her right hand.
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This painting belongs to a triptych, which also includes Madonna and Child, with Blessing Christ and Saint Catherine of Alexandria .
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Manet came from a well–to–do family, and this painting provides a glimpse of the sophisticated Parisian world he loved. He was uncomfortable in the countryside, preferring instead the finery of the city.
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Pietro Lorenzetti of Siena painted me in 1340 . This inscription is the signature of the Sienese painter Pietro Lorenzetti , which survives on a fragment of the original frame (now incorporated in a modern support and located beneath this painting).
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