This painting is based on a true account of a shark attack in Havana Harbor in 1749. John Singleton Copley depicts a critical moment in the attempted rescue of 14-year-old Brook Watson.
Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los
Here is Dutch artist Judith Leyster at her easel, taking a break from painting to engage with us. In what might be considered an early selfie, she leans her forearm on the chair and suspends her paintbrush in midair, as if she’ll turn back to the canvas in a moment.
Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1976: 139. 1978 King, Marian.
The Protestant Dutch had a reputation for strict rules that defined social conduct. Only on rare occasions, such as a betrothal when a suitor was expected to show passion for his future wife, would a demonstration of emotion be considered proper.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, 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
Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (punch 16 a, according to Frinta’s enumeration);
Musician Rafiq Bhatia feels compelled to capture his improvisations—fleeting moments of sound—in recordings. Like sound, light is transient. But James Turrell’s works, which inspired Bhatia’s composition, contain and present light, allowing us to forge a deeper relationship with an ephemeral substance.
James Turrell Born in 1943 in Los Angeles, James Turrell studied experimental psychology
This painting is regarded as one of the finest of all Titian’s portraits. Doge Andrea Gritti’s ferocious expression and imposing figure convey an awe-inspiring authority.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Edouard Manet offers an intriguing study in contrasts and ambiguity in The Railway , starting with the relationship between the two figures. Are they mother and daughter?
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973.
Dürer was born in Nuremberg and received a typical medieval training from his goldsmith father and from the Nuremberg painter Michael Wolgemut. Yet he was one of the major transmitters of the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to artists in the North.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
[7] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los
