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Go on a MONUMENTAL drawing adventure inspired by the Running Fence artists, the first in our series hosted by Wendy MacNaughton.
So they created a unique, smart business model: Christo made and sold preparatory
€“1669), whose influence is evident in Bol’s choice of an aged and rough-hewn model
When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
Hiffernan was Whistler’s primary model and collaborator during the early 1860s.
An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections. Set your own pace by selecting as many tour stops as you like, in the order you choose. Just enter the track number below, press go, then press the play button when the tour stop appears. Don’t forget your headphones!  Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation
LAILA LALAMI: I’m not at all surprised to learn that the model for this painting
Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Auguste Renoir’s Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar De Los Santos sees echoes of her younger self. Her song „Sueña“ is an ode to dreams.
MARY MORTON: No, she would be a model.
Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
Artist After, Florentine, 1440 – c. 1498 Florentine 16th Century, probably after a model
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
This attractive model has been repeatedly identified as a young servant girl in Rembrandtâ
In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
sketch of the overall composition, he likely painted the actual portrait from a model
How do portraits influence the way we see historic figures? David shows Napoleon Bonaparte working tirelessly for the people of France.
Napoleon was a military genius whose code became the model of modern legal systems
painting, or they can use recyclable materials to construct a three-dimensional model
