Boucher’s most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.
He was highly adept at marketing his work, providing designs for all manner of decorative
The Artist: A major figure of sixteenth-century painting, Francesco de’ Rossi, better known as Francesco Salviati, was born in Florence in 1510. He was a close contemporary of Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572)
He remarked that Salviati had "la piu bella maniera" (the most beautiful manner)
The sitter, Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, was born to a life of poverty on October 10, 1743, in the parish of Saint-Gervais in Paris, where her father worked as a day laborer. At twenty-two, in 1766, she married her companion of several years, Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (1728–1796), of whose troupe she is said to have been a member since its formation
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
celebration of the natural world—expressed in varied forms, from the bold, graphic manner
Featuring highlights of European drawing from the Robert Lehman Collection, the exhibition presents works by preeminent masters from the Renaissance to the modern age, including Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Georges Seurat, and Henri Matisse. The selection reflects The The
artist of the French Enlightenment, Jean Honoré Fragonard developed an exuberant manner
Beginning with Augustus, the emperors of the imperial period made full use of [sculpture’s] potential as a tool for communicating specific ideologies to the Roman populace.
A.D.), the founder of the Flavian dynasty, similarly show him in an unidealized manner
Like a book, a handscroll is an intimate object that is held in the hands and is ideally viewed by only a few people at a time.
tales, Japanese illustrated handscrolls bring stories to life in a vivid, engaging manner
The Artist: Simon Vouet (see fig. 1 above) is one of a number of major artists, among whom are Jusepe de Ribera, Valentin de Boulogne, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Bartolomeo Manfredi, who worked in Rome in the immediate aftermath of Caravaggio’s death and absorbed his dramatic treatment of expressive lighting, startling naturalism, and psychologically penetrating approach to narrative subjects
In France Vouet’s “Italian� manner of lush and brilliant painting, matched
Throughout the greater part of his career Greuze made what are referred to as either study heads or expressive heads, in French called têtes d’expression. He showed paintings of the kind at every biannual Salon in which he participated, that is, from 1755 through 1765 and in 1769
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
Possibly between 1787-1790, acquired by Sir William Hamilton (British Envoy and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples), Naples; from the late 1780’s to 1801, possibly in the collection of Sir William Hamilton; 1801-1917, vase and lid probably in the possession of the Hope Family, at Deepdene, Surrey, England (1801-1831 with Thomas Hope; 1831-1862 with Henry Thomas Hope; 1862-1877 with Mrs
joins lid of 17.230.14 ca. 540 BCE Calyx-krater, fragments Attributed to the manner
