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. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural
This small panel once decorated the predella of an altarpiece along with nine other small portraits of apostles, three of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art: Matthew , Simon , and Thaddeus .
marriage that evolved to become the international style, a refined and courtly manner
true leading star’ in art.� [2] The young artist sits in a remarkably casual manner
of the two paintings indicated that they had been built up in entirely different manners
however, has revealed that the apparent objects in the scales are painted in a manner
„Remember me, O Mother of God. O Queen of Heaven, rejoice.“ These words, taken from an Easter psalm sung in the Virgin’s honor, appear on the golden arch at the top of Carlo Crivelli’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Donor.
Yet the manner in which Crivelli’s figures are modeled in light and shade also expresses
In much the same manner that Vermeer has refined his composition by eliminating extraneous
The paint is applied alla prima (wet-on-wet), in an opaque, vigorously brushed manner
bridge is no longer an object among many, but the exclusive object viewed in such a manner
The green foliage is arranged in a less symmetrical manner, and the mauve background
