This work is a large fragment of one of three altarpieces El Greco was commissioned to paint in 1608 for the church of the Hospital of Saint John the Baptist (also called the Tavera Hospital in honor of its co-founder, Cardinal-Archbishop Juan de Tavera, 1472–1545), just outside the walls of Toledo
Manuel B. CossÃo. El Greco.
This picture is one of four whaling subjects by Turner; the other three form part of the artist’s bequest at Tate Britain, London. The Met’s painting and another of the same title were shown at the Royal Academy in 1845, receiving a mixed reception
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The Artist: Joachim Patinir was born in the southern Lowlands, either in Dinant or Bouvignes (southeastern Belgium). Although the date of his birth is unknown, it was probably around 1480 or 1485
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Kenneth Moore, Frederick P.
Kenneth Moore—Frederick P.
The Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440–1482), born in Ghent, was one of the leading Flemish artists of the second half of the fifteenth century. Initially, Hugo followed in the grand tradition of the illusionism of Jan van Eyck’s paintings, with a palette of richly saturated colors and a clear organization of space that depended on single vanishing-point perspective
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The images throughout the 150-folio text are rendered in a reduced color palette
The Crusaders then took over many of the cities on the Mediterranean coast and built a large number of fortified castles all over the Holy Land to protect their new territories.
sometimes combines an Islamic aesthetic with Christian subject matter ( 1971.39a,b)
