From first kisses to tragic romances, our collection abounds with love, in all its forms.
Auguste Rodin, The Kiss (Le Baiser), model 1880-1887, cast c. 1898/1902, bronze,
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
daughter, born in 1655 and 1656 respectively, either of whom could have served as the model
Albright’s model for this work was Lady Frances Curie Milburne, a niece of the Duke
Around 1616 Peter Paul Rubens engaged in a large tapestries series project about the heroic Roman consul Decius Mus. This panel, which is a small sketch or modello for the larger composition, depicted the first episode of that story, which normally consisted of seven or eight scenes.
Lipsius’s writings about the great Stoic philosopher, Seneca, who hailed Decius Mus a model
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sculptures from individually sculpted wax forms based on a body cast of a single child model
When, in December 1391, at the end of a novitiate lasting a year, the painter Piero di Giovanni made his profession in the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, assuming the name of Don Lorenzo,[1] he must already have been a well-known and esteemed artist in the city and hence no longer very young. Presumed in the older literature to have been born in Siena,[2] he seems to have been trained as an artist in Florence, serving in the bottega of Agnolo Gaddi , with whom he later collaborated in the painting of the predella of the altarpiece in the Nobili Chapel in Santa Maria degli Angeli, formerly dated 1387.[3] Ordained a deacon in 1394, he dedicated himself in the following years to the painting of miniatures, particularly the illumination of the choir-books of his monastery and of other monastic communities (choir-books nos.
Having overcome his first creative phase, essentially derived from the model of Agnolo
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
„A Parisian Goldsmith’s Model of the Early Fifteenth Century.“
