The short biblical account of the Flight into Egypt (Matt. 2:13–14) was elaborated upon by Early Christian and medieval theologians.
Both gaze downward to the bunch of green grapes Mary holds delicately in her left hand
She holds up a gold-colored stylus with her right hand, closer to us, with a pointed
at the table in a darkened room, an old woman leans her head on the back of her hand
Marks Inscriptions lower right in pen and brown ink: Domo Tiepolo f; by later hand
It is now generally acknowledged that the two greatest painters of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Henri Matisse, were also two of its greatest sculptors. In 2002 the Gallery acquired its first and, so far, only significant sculpture by Picasso, Head of a Woman (Fernande) , 1909.
may be discerned in the head, but the apparently autoerotic placement of her left hand
Filippino Lippi 1480 Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap; a Right Forearm with the Hand
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1774, roulette and etching with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper and hand-colored
In Kalf’s own hand the rind has a three-dimensional presence as it twists and turns
He holds the reins of his horse in his left hand, farther from us.
During the 1960s and 1970s the fate and future of painting was a hotly contested subject on the New York art scene. It is especially telling, then, that Alfred Jensen’s paintings were acclaimed during this period by two of the very artists—Donald Judd and Allan Kaprow—who were otherwise leading the assault on painting in favor of new art forms such as minimal sculpture and assemblage.
On the one hand, the painting demonstrates Jensen’s longstanding exploration of color
