Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. At the time Titian painted this portrait, Bembo had recently been elevated to that status in honor of his service to the Church and his scholarly career, although the writer’s literary output was almost entirely secular.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
[fig1] © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, private collection, Los Angeles [4] Margaret
[fig1] © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, private collection, Los Angeles [4] Margaret
[fig1] © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, private collection, Los Angeles [4] Margaret
Van Gogh found inspiration for this portrait in the bold complementary colors and contrasting patterns of the Japanese woodblock prints he collected. He fantasized about Japan as a utopia of bright light and color different from the dark, crowded western capitals he lived in.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1997: 115-117, repro. 1999 Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
[fig1] © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, private collection, Los Angeles [4] Margaret
When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
Modern American and French paintings from the San Francisco Exposition, and the Los
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, inv. no. 84.PB.56 [6] Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist
