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Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Denver Art Museum; Los

This painting is an outstanding example of the abstract elegance characteristic of Rogier’s late portraits. Although the identity of the sitter is unknown, her air of self–conscious dignity suggests that she is a member of the nobility.
, Files Regarding Works of Art, Box 302, folders 7-8, Getty Research Institute, Los

Lured to Tahiti in 1891 by reports of its unspoiled culture, Gauguin was disappointed by its civilized capital and moved to the countryside, where he found an approximation of the tropical paradise he had expected. The Tahiti of his depictions was derived from native folklore supplemented by material culled from books written by earlier European visitors and overlaid with allusions to western culture.
the Edge of the Forest 1941 Aspects of French Painting from Cezanne to Picasso, Los

How do portraits influence the way we see historic figures? David shows Napoleon Bonaparte working tirelessly for the people of France.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Peter Paul Rubens lived and studied in Italy between 1600 and 1609, absorbing the country’s cultural riches and artistic heritage. During a stay in Genoa in 1606, he painted the portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria.
reel 141; accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los

Pieter de Hooch excelled in the sensitive depiction of people going about their daily lives, be it inside their houses or in the sheltered environment of an urban courtyard. His masterly control of light, color, and complex perspectival construction can be compared to the work of Johannes Vermeer, his contemporary and colleague in Delft.
Los Angeles, 2006: 20 fig. 17, 21, 72 nn. 17 and 18. 2010 Powell, Amy.

Third Annual Meeting, College Art Association of America, February 14 – ​16, 1985, Los

It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. The partnership of the two artists here— Puccio painted the center and right-hand panel of this tryptych and Allegretto the left—is a bit unusual, since they were not based in the same city.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

This Coronation of the Virgin may be the first time the subject, which originated in the West, appears in Venetian art. Some of the earliest representations were carved above cathedral doorways in France—and certain elements in the Gallery’s painting—its elaborate halos, for example—share in the decorative elegance of Gothic art.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series