The Annunciation, Jan van Eyck | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/node/856276
The angel raises his right hand – the one closer to us – in front of his breast
The angel raises his right hand – the one closer to us – in front of his breast
Her right hand rests on fabric bunched on that leg, and her other hand disappears
Photographs by Carrie Mae Weems make us look and think twice. At first glance, this seems to be a 19th-century sepia-toned print of three girls in an idyllic pastoral setting.
She wears a floral-patterned dress and holds her right hand up to the top of her
Inscriptions lower left in black: Homer 1901; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand
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).
She holds a bunch of red cherries in her right hand by the child’s hip.
Michel Sittow was born about 1469 of German-Scandinavian stock in the Hanseatic port city of Reval, now Tallinn, in Estonia. He probably received his earliest training in Reval from his father, also a painter, yet his apprenticeship in Bruges and years of work for Queen Isabel of Castile and for allied courts gave his art a Flemish and cosmopolitan flavor.
[Hand, John Oliver, and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting.
His hand is close to the photographer so is slightly out of focus, and he cups his
head to look at a blue dog at her feet, while she reaches down with her green left hand
The small Bible or prayer book she holds in her right hand and her conservative black
A disheveled figure with knee and head injuries and a crutch sits in a mostly empty tavern. Holding a glass of hard cider, he tells his tale to the tavern keeper, the younger man across from him.
He leans forward and points at the man sitting across from him with his right hand