Dürer was born in Nuremberg and received a typical medieval training from his goldsmith father and from the Nuremberg painter Michael Wolgemut. Yet he was one of the major transmitters of the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to artists in the North.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
participated in government employment programs in every state and county in the nation
This painting and the Enthroned Madonna and Child are the oldest paintings on the National Gallery of Art’s walls.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears Lenox Avenue, a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice.Â
Headlee is also a classically trained soprano who has performed around the nation
99, echoed by Alison Luchs, "The Degas Waxes, c. 1878–c. 1911," in Art for the Nation
The man’s surroundings are blurred, but his illuminated face is finely detailed. The sad eyes fix on us intently.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
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.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Taking an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultural formations of Black and African people since the 17th century, this exhibition includes works of art like paintings, sculpture, photographs, and time-based media by artists from Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean.
Los Angeles, 85.PA.407 The artist Lois Mailou Jones often visited the Caribbean nation
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery
