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A profound appreciation for the paintings of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer unites these three people—and many others.
He was extremely precise in where the model is standing, where the window is, where
How Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Thomas Hart Benton depicted the humble structures—and how they mask the struggles of farmers today.
Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.706 Wright Morris, Model
Fascination with the life and times of William Shakespeare abounded in the Victorian world, especially in London, where American artist Edwin Austin Abbey settled permanently in 1883. The Bard’s writings provided lifelong inspiration for Abbey:
the Royal Academy, Abbey scraped out Sylvia’s head and repainted it from another model
Burchard, the English-born first bishop of Würzburg, Germany, died in 754. In this imaginary portrait, he raises his right hand in blessing.
„Riemenschneider as a Goldsmith’s Model Maker,“ The Art Bulletin 37, no. 2 (June
This early 20th century art movement sought to convey the intensity of modern life.
This influenced artists such as Käthe Kollwitz, who used herself as a model and
„A Parisian Goldsmith’s Model of the Early Fifteenth Century.“
Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
painted form may seem surprising, considering the diminutive stature of Eakins‘ model
Some layers, such as the soft lavenders that model the shaded portions of the lower
Son of Daddo di Simone, Bernardo is recorded for the first time in the registers of the Arte dei Medici e Speziali when he enrolled in the guild (which also included artists) between 1312 and 1320.[1] By this date he must have been a firmly established painter, as the reconstruction of his oeuvre also suggests; presumably, he had been born by the last decade of the thirteenth century, if not earlier.
chromatic harmonies of his compositions, would strongly influence and serve as a model
Jacopo Tintoretto was, along with Titian and Paolo Veronese , one of the three giants of 16th-century Venetian painting. No one else came close to matching the sheer number of pictures he provided for Venice’s churches, confraternities, government buildings, and private palaces.
In portraiture, by contrast, Tintoretto favored an understated model based upon prototypes
