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Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
Hand, John Oliver.
A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World, 1998: 1, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
A painting may provide a “window� into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
Henri Matisse. 1994: repro. 40. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Washington, D.C., 2000: 208-213, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
According to legend, Martin of Tour was a soldier in the army of Constantine the Great serving in Gaul, near the French city of Amiens, in the fourth century. On a winter’s day Martin encountered a poor beggar at the city gates and cut his military cloak in half to help shield the shivering man from the cold.
Apollo 34 (December 1941): 152, repro., as by Van Dyck. 1963 Millar, Oliver.
Marisa Bass, Yale University (chair) September 2022–August 2025 Valerie Cassel Oliver
Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
Washington, D.C., 1996: 162-167, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
[11] Oliver Millar, Van Dyck in England (London, 1982), 103, no. 63.
Washington, D.C., 1990: 124-127, repro. 123. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than in the work of Frans Hals, who was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. This unidentified sitter—one of Hals’ most impressive portraits—was sixty years old when the painting was made, according to the artist’s inscription.
Raleigh, 2002: 110-111, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
