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Michel Sittow | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/artists/1878-michel-sittow

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.

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Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii by Randolph Rogers

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/115401-nydia-blind-girl-pompeii

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

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The Departure by Thomas Cole

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/166439-departure

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

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