Meintest du oliver?
Discover works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and learn about the artist
Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1980. 1986 Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff.
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.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 60-61, repro. 1993 Hand, John Oliver
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 267, repro. 1986 Hand, John Oliver
Discover works by Erich Heckel and learn about the artist
published 1931, woodcut, printed in blue and black, on laid paper, Gift of Lila Oliver
Looking up in amazement as Christ ascends into heaven are the twelve apostles. Kneeling with them is the Virgin, the only one to have a halo.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 58, repro. 1993 Hand, John Oliver,
One of the earliest Italian group portraits, this painting depicts Cardinal Bandinello Sauli and three companions gathered around a table covered with a Turkish carpet. Set within a narrow space closed off by a rich green wall hanging, the figures appear to have been discussing the geography manuscript lying open before them.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 32, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
clustered around the pie; these include a blue and white porcelain dish of green olives
London, 1996: 4:593 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
It was the subject, for example, of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s poem “The Chambered
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 112. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
