Nude Seated by Childe Hassam https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46631-nude-seated
Her right hand rests on fabric bunched on that leg, and her other hand disappears
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.
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
She holds her left hand up to cup her opposite ear, with her elbow lifted as she
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Departure , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset . The lord of a great castle and his company leave for a quest in the bright light of an early spring morning.
He holds up one hand, palm out, toward the knights as he looks in their direction
lower right in brown ink: McBey Antwerp 22 May 1926; lower left verso by later hand
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