in different contexts in a number of other paintings from the mid-1650s. [2] The model
National Gallery Nights Matisse Advanced Artwork Search Allegory of Africa model
The Thinker was originally conceived not in heroic isolation, but as part of Rodin’s monumental Gates of Hell —a pair of bronze doors intended for a museum of decorative arts in Paris. Although the doors were never cast during the sculptor’s lifetime, they nevertheless provided Rodin a rich source of ideas for individual figures and groups that he worked and reworked for the rest of his career.
Gallery Nights Matisse Advanced Artwork Search The Thinker (Le Penseur) model
Architect Hector Guimard was the principal designer of the Paris Métro system, which opened in 1900 at the time of the Exposition Universelle. His work is associated with art nouveau, a style of art and architecture that is based largely on organic forms from nature.
Matisse Advanced Artwork Search An Entrance to the Paris Métropolitain model
How did impressionism begin? Discover the origins of the French art movement in a new look at the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting.
details about The Dancer Close Modal Gloria Victis Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié model
Walt Kuhn’s interest in still-life painting intensified throughout his career. During an extended stay in Paris in the summer of 1933, Kuhn proclaimed in a letter home that he would focus on still life when he returned to the United States.
profile, three-quarter view, and frontally, as if Kuhn was indeed treating each as a model
It is now generally acknowledged that the two greatest painters of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and Henri Matisse, were also two of its greatest sculptors. In 2002 the Gallery acquired its first and, so far, only significant sculpture by Picasso, Head of a Woman (Fernande) , 1909.
The model was his wife, and indeed her portrait may be discerned in the head, but
The dancer-teacher Carlo Blasis upheld the classical statue as his model for the
”his flowing beard, long nose, and deep-set, slightly sad eyes—are those of a model
Jan Davidsz de Heem was born in Utrecht to a Catholic family. In 1626 he moved to Leiden, where he married his first wife, Aletta van Weede, a native of Utrecht.
of Flemish still-life painter Daniel Seghers (1590–1661) provided an important model
