Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Olive

An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections. Set your own pace by selecting as many tour stops as you like, in the order you choose. Just enter the track number below, press go, then press the play button when the tour stop appears. Don’t forget your headphones!   Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation
would have come to the Netherlands from American or Caribbean plantations; the olives

Giotto ’s explorations and innovations in art during the early 14th century developed, a full century later, into the Italian Renaissance. Besides making panel paintings, he executed many fresco cycles—the most famous at the Arena Chapel, Padua—and he also worked as an architect and sculptor.
Paris, 2003: 381. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Titian’s goddess of love and beauty conjures the sense of touch. Observing her flushed cheek, one can almost feel its warmth.
Cambridge, 2003: 155, 190, 208. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

, on ivory, is in the Jones Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see Oliver

During the Trojan War, the priest Laocoön angered the Greek gods, who sent snakes to kill him and his two sons. The legend became popular after a monumental, ancient marble sculpture of Laocoön and his sons was unearthed in Rome in 1506.
Washington Parent (April 2001): 14. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Charles Sheeler was a master of both painting and photography, and his work in one medium influenced and shaped his work in the other.[1] In 1927, he was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit. Then the world’s largest industrial complex, employing more than 75,000 workers, the plant produced Ford’s Model A, successor to the famed Model T.
Washington, D.C., 2000: no. 58, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Above all, Johannes Vermeer was a painter of light. In this exquisite painting, diffused light softly illuminates the tabletop, the woman’s face, and her rich lemon-yellow morning jacket.
Museo nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2003: 37-39, 209, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver

middle ground, Christ kneels in prayer above a well-tended garden on the Mount of Olives

Like  Duccio’s The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel , this small panel was part of the Maestà , one of the most important masterpieces in the history of Western painting.
Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 2003: 218-220. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

The people and animals in this colorful procession are on their way to see the infant Jesus and honor his birth. The procession winds around a hill, under an ancient arch, and to the manger.
Hand, John Oliver.