; Pompadour apparently had no compunction about seeing herself depicted in this manner
Although the sitter’s identity is not verified, he is possibly Johann Dorsch, a cleric in Nuremberg. The clergyman’s ardor, spiritual zeal, and intense determination are communicated through the turn of the head, the fixed, staring eyes, and the tight, compressed lips.
description, however, is clearly that of the Gallery’s picture, „Brustbild eines Mannes
Toward the end of his early Leiden period, Jan Lievens created a series of tronies, or head studies, of older men and women. Even though he based them on the features of live models, these tronies were character studies rather than formal portraits.
By the early 1630s their manners became so similar that even contemporaries were
In her frequent depictions of children, Mary Cassatt invested relatively quiet and unexceptional moments with considerable dynamism in handling and composition. Child in a Straw Hat is one of many paintings Cassatt made of little girls appearing to play dress-up.
The paint was applied quickly and directly to the canvas, in a manner referred to
The marine painter Simon de Vlieger was born in Rotterdam in about 1601, judging from a document dated May 16, 1648, in which he described himself as forty-seven years old. [1] On January 10, 1627, he married Anna Gerridts van Willige.
Amstel, Friedrich Christoph Dietrich, Christian Josi · published 1821 · chalk manner
Around 1625, Peter Paul Rubens received an important commission from the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governess of the Southern Netherlands (1566–1633) to design a tapestry series of The Triumph of the Eucharist for the royal convent of the Poor Clares in Madrid. The tapestries were to be hung during the feast days of Good Friday and Corpus Christi, which celebrate Christ’s presence in the Eucharist.
Stepney, as Baronet of Predergast in 1811, and in 1813 he married Catherine Pollok Manners
This devotional carving, with a power that belies its small size, is the National Gallery of Art’s first purchase of a sculpture in ivory. Always a luxury material, ivory was imported into Europe from Africa by way of Egypt since Greek and Roman times, and remained in demand for centuries.
The head falls forward onto the chest, turning slightly to the figure’s left in a manner
Édouard-Denis Baldus photographed the train station in Toulon while on commission for the administrative council of the southern region of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) railroad. With his characteristic eye for majesty, Baldus presents a grand yet simple view.
Henri Le Secq, and Charles Nègre, Baldus used the camera in a somewhat retrograde manner
Michelangelo Muraro first coined the conventional name for this artist in 1969 and gathered under it a group of paintings previously attributed in the main to Paolo Veneziano .[1] Muraro also conjectured that the anonymous master might be identifiable with Marco, brother of Paolo, who, according to a document of 1335, must have been a highly esteemed painter at this time, though none of his works have come down to us under his name. However, judging from his stylistic characteristics, the anonymous Master of the Washington Coronation must have belonged to a generation preceding that of Paolo and his brother.
The period of his activity, during which he accepted in an ever more pronounced manner
Also similar in these examples is the manner in which the collar is fastened by an
