Irene di Spilimbergo was about 20 years old when this painting was begun. Along with a pendant portrait of her older sister, Emilia, the two paintings were probably initially commissioned in anticipation of the prospective marriages of the two sitters.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
We glimpse the harrowing drama unfolding in this painting, as if we are crouching by the roots of the tropical foliage and peering through a space between the leaves. Our focus is on the anonymous silhouettes of men and women, their shackles more prominent than their features.
. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Los
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the section corresponding to The Love Letter
Originally, this painting had an arched top, the contour of which can still be traced in the different appearance of the gilding, which shows that the corners were added much later to transform the panel into a rectangle. Changes like this underscore the fact that early Italian paintings were experienced very differently by their contemporaries than by today’s museum-goers, who are accustomed to single, usually rectangular, paintings hanging by themselves on pristine walls.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2021 – 2022, no. 5, repro.
You may know Georgia O’Keeffe, but have you heard of Tonita Peña? Learn about the many artists inspired by the Southwest.
Albers recommended her for a fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los
Both this panel of Ginevra Bentivoglio and the companion portrait of her husband, Giovanni II Bentivoglio, also in the National Gallery of Art, were created when the family was at the height of its power. Giovanni, a major political figure in northern Italy, ruled the city of Bologna from 1463 until his expulsion for tyranny in 1506.
Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Though this painting presents a mythological allegory, Venus wears a costume and jewelry closely related to the fashion of the time it was painted. The two cupids may represent Eros and Anteros, both sons of Venus, but symbols of contrasting aspects of love—the blind and sensuous, and the clear-sighted and virtuous.
and Eastern Art, 1979, no catalogue (organized by the Armand Hammer Foundation, Los
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
The exhibition of Home, Sweet Home in the spring of 1863 auspiciously marked Winslow Homer’s debut as a painter. The painting was enthusiastically admired.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019 – 2020, no. 8, repro.
