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oil on canvas · Accession ID 1963.10.64 Artwork Alfred Stevens, Study of a Model
oil on canvas · Accession ID 1963.10.64 Artwork Alfred Stevens, Study of a Model
How did the Italian sculptor approach a portrait of the first US president?
Antonio Canova, George Washington, 1817, terracotta, Museo di Roma The plaster model
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paper · Accession ID 2015.19.1336 Artwork Joseph Hirsch, Gaston Dorfinant, Model
The human form is often the foundation of academic artistic training—but accurately depicting anatomy is no easy feat. Many works show the artist’s admiration for the beauty of the human body. Others try to accurately capture a person in motion.
More Artworks Close Modal Allegory of Africa Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi model
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Accession ID 1991.95.1 Artwork Pierre-Jean David d’Angers, Ambroise Paré, model
· gelatin silver print · Accession ID 2020.66.1 Artwork Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Model
Romanticists, who placed emotion and intuition before reason, caused a re-evaluation of the role of art and the artist. They believed in the importance of the individual, the personal, and the subjective. This late-18th and early-19th century movement was a backlash to the ideals of rationality that had remained central since the Renaissance.
Forest of Fontainebleau Close Modal Fugitives (Emigrants) Honoré Daumier model
Accession ID 2000.114.1 Artwork Alessandro Algardi, Christ at the Column, model
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1822/1823 · marble · Accession ID 2014.136.243 Artwork Antonio Canova, Venus, model
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and graphite on paper · Accession ID 1943.8.9587 Artwork George File, Stove (Model