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John Gaughan, Los Angeles Touted as an android that could defeat chess masters,
European artists from the Renaissance onward have visualized the known world through allegorical figures derived from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman personifications.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Lowe, Lisa.
Los Angeles. UCLA Art Galleries.
This composition, in which half-length figures of the three magi are viewed behind a fictive arcade, offering their gifts to the Christ Child—an event celebrated in the Church as the Feast of Epiphany (January 6)—conforms to the rising popularity in the Netherlands for close-up devotional paintings that put the viewer in a direct relationship with the event depicted
discusses our picture in relation to an Adoration by Mantegna [now Getty Museum, Los
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Leona worked at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and at the Los Angeles
The Artist: Müller aspired to be a history painter, that is, to specialize in a genre not generally associated with Danish Golden Age painting. His influential teacher, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853), himself a pupil of Jacques Louis David, did produce history paintings, but these lack the simple grace and charm of his portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum.
Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1958, p. 14. Peter A. Wick.
Excavated at the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, about a mile from Pompeii (Cavenaghi 1901, p. 5; Barnabei 1901, pp. 71-81). 1899-1900, frescoes excavated by Vincenzo de Prisco; [until 1903, with Cesare and Ercole Canessa, Naples and Paris]; acquired in 1903, purchased from C
Roman Art. pp. 24–26, fig. 16a, b, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities,
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