The Artist: The Sienese master Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique
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The Artist: The Master of the Magdalen is the name given by Osvald Sirén (1922) to the anonymous artist who was active in the second half of the thirteenth century and painted a panel in the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence representing Saint Mary Magdalen and eight episodes of her life (fig
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Folio from the Anonymous Bagdad Qur’anThis illuminated folio and folio no. 55.44 come from different sections of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of calligraphy and book production in the Islamic world
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The first convincing argument for the attribution of this work to Van Borssom was made by Niemeijer in 1962, and the attribution was adopted by the Museum in 1990. In his approximately two dozen known paintings and in his numerous drawings, Van Borssom proves to have been an eclectic artist whose ideas came from a considerable variety of Dutch painters and draftsmen
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Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
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Link to the Artist Project Barry X Ball on an Egyptian fragment of a queen’s face
This is a signed early work by Cuyp, probably painted about 1643–44. Although larger than most works painted by the artist when he was in his early to mid-twenties, the painting shares with them a fluid touch and a palette reminiscent of Jan van Goyen; pale browns and yellows blend together in the landscape, tans and grays in the costumes, and blues in the sky
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