Through the 1920s, Matisse stayed in Nice from late fall to early spring of each year, while his wife and family remained in Issy-les-Moulineaux outside Paris. Pianist and Checker Players is set in Matisse’s Nice apartment and shows the artist’s favorite model, Henriette Darricarère, and her two brothers.
our right looks at the board while resting his left cheek, closer to us, in his hand
cartoonist, Gauguin suggests what he looks like, showing only his head and one hand
the compositional scheme known as the Hodegetria Virgin, in which Mary’s right hand
Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
Her left hand, closer to Adam, rests on her thigh.
Her right hand, on our left, rests on the baby’s right shoulder with one finger brushing
grapevines leans across one splayed leg, and he holds a shallow bowl in his left hand
When Thomas Sully painted fifteen-year-old Eliza Ridgely in the spring of 1818, he was widely regarded as America’s leading artist. Particularly noted for his graceful images of women, he was a natural choice to paint this Baltimore merchant’s daughter.
She holds a T-shaped tuning key in that hand.
The art historical literature generally asserts that the great Sienese painter cited in a document of 1320 as “Petrus quondam Lorenzetti ” and who signed himself as “Petrus Laurentii” is to be identified with the Petruccio di Lorenzo paid in 1306 for a panel, now lost, painted for the Sienese government. If that is the case, then his date of birth is unlikely to have been any later than 1280.[1] The prestigious commission presupposes, in fact, that he must have been a well-established artist by this date.
On the other hand, Pietro’s first securely dated work is the polyptych in the pieve
Edwin Landseer was only 18 when he painted this powerful work showing a rescue in the Great Saint Bernard Pass in the Alps. Two dogs have found an unconscious man partially buried by snow.
gazes down at the prone person and bends its head down to lick a bare pale, pink hand
For this depiction of Joseph spurning the advances of his Egyptian employer’s wife, as recounted in the Book of Genesis, Guercino chose a three-quarter length format that presses the life-sized figures close to the spectator. He has filled the scene with the bed — all rumpled sheets and opulent curtains.
With that hand, she clutches the end of the man’s royal-blue cloak.
