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Oxford, Lincoln College (1993) The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity Anthony Hecht
Oxford, Lincoln College (1993) The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity Anthony Hecht
The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
Essays for Peter Hecht.
Hecht, Peter. Van Gogh en Rembrandt. In series Van Gogh in Focus.
This painting evokes the art of the past only to break boldly with its conventions. The boy is posed like an aristocrat in a 16th-century Italian portrait.
Essays for Peter Hecht.
See Anne Walter Lowenthal, “Response to Peter Hecht,� Simiolus 16, nos. 2–3
Gerrit Dou, considered the founder of the Dutch school of fijnschilderij , or fine painting, was born in Leiden on April 7, 1613, the son of Marytje Jansdr van Rosenburg and the glassmaker and engraver Douwe Jansz. According to Orlers, Dou received his first instruction, in the art of glass engraving, from his father.
Zwolle, 1988: 96-115. 1989 Hecht, Pieter.
At the sixth impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1881, Edgar Degas presented the only sculpture that he would ever exhibit in public. The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , the title given by the artist, has become one of the most beloved works of art, well known through the many bronze casts produced from this unique original statuette, following the artist’s death.
Essays for Peter Hecht.
of online tours, Alfred Stieglitz: New Perspectives, thanks are owed to Phyllis Hecht
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Accession ID 2015.19.3052 Artwork Andy Warhol, Rupert Jasen Smith, William Hechter