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When Approach to Venice was first exhibited in 1844, Joseph Mallord William Turner quoted Lord Byron in the catalog description: “The moon is up, and yet it is not night / The sun as yet disputes the day with her.� In Turner’s colorful view of Venice, a full moon shares the sky with the setting sun as a flotilla of barges and gondolas makes its way across the lagoon.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2014-2015, no

Few artists could match Moroni’s skill in depicting the appearance of his sitters, far less his ability to conjure the inner workings of their minds. The identity of the gentleman in this penetrating portrait is a mystery.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los

Orazio Gentileschi was one of the earliest and most gifted painters to be inspired by the genre scenes of Caravaggio in Rome. Here, he must have had in mind Caravaggio’s famous picture on the same theme.
Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 1979 (organized by the Armand Hammer Foundation, Los

In the tradition of his Flemish predecessors, Memling’s painting contains a wealth of religious meaning; it is filled with symbols which explain the importance of Christ’s mission on earth.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

Thomas Eakins made his career portraying upper-middle class residents of his native Philadelphia. Such depictions are anything but static likenesses;
Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los

In The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion , Lucas Cranach the Elder chose to portray a scene of religious redemption. The crucified Christ, silhouetted against a darkened and troubled sky, is at the point of death;
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

It might be said that with paintings like this one, Annibale Carracci invented the landscape as a subject for Italian baroque painting. Nature here is appreciated first and foremost for herself and not as the backdrop for a story.
DK-1 (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; copies in NGA curatorial files).

This bucolic landscape depicts two horsemen who have stopped on a small rise overlooking a broad river valley to ask local herdsmen for directions. With figures and cattle silhouetted against an expansive sky and late afternoon light bathing the scene in a golden glow, the painting conveys the sense of peace and tranquility that pervaded the Netherlands after the signing of the Treaty of Münster in 1648 that ended the war against Spain and finally established the Dutch Republic.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los