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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.

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,

This painting is regarded as one of the finest of all Titian’s portraits. Doge Andrea Gritti’s ferocious expression and imposing figure convey an awe-inspiring authority.
Done by Tichian� (Oliver Millar, “Abraham van der Doort’s Catalogue of the

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 88, repro. 1986 Hand, John Oliver and

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 112. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Fanny/Fingerpainting , a portrait of Close’s grandmother-in-law, represents one of the largest and most masterly executions of a technique the artist developed in the mid-l980s. That technique involved the direct application of pigment to a surface with the artist’s fingertips.
1998): B1. 2000 The Washingtonian (July 2000): 81, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver

Washington, D.C., 1998: 203-206, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Madame Vigée Le Brun was part of the world she painted and, like her aristocratic patrons, was under threat of the guillotine after the revolution. She was forced to flee Paris in disguise in 1789.
New Haven, 2000: 8, under fig. 2. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Mark Rothko did not want to explain what his works mean, and he often chose to leave them untitled. He preferred to use color and composition not for their own sake but to convey profound states of human existence.
New Haven and London, 1998: no. 425, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

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London, 1954. 1969 Millar, Sir Oliver.