Meintest du oliver?
The unusual subject of this painting comes from one of Aesop’s fables. In his Man and the Satyr , he related how a demigod helped a peasant who was lost on a wintry day.
Her dark brown hair is pulled up and back, and she wears an olive-green wrap over
The angels wear flowing gowns in sky or topaz blue, olive green, tangerine orange
This tour offers vivid descriptions of specific works on view in the East Building. Though designed for people with vision loss, this tour is a useful tool for guided looking for all visitors.
left arm stretches forward with her first two fingers extended; she cradles an olive
Orazio Gentileschi was one of the earliest and most gifted painters to be inspired by the genre scenes of Caravaggio in Rome. Here, he must have had in mind Caravaggio’s famous picture on the same theme.
In front of her, the table is draped with fringed, olive-green fabric.
Fleeing the violence of the American Revolution, John Singleton Copley and his family settled in London in 1775. While Copley (standing at top left) tried to remain neutral, his father-in-law Richard Clarke (seated in front of the artist) supported the British.
His forearms rest on a low, olive-green stone column in front of him, his hands crossed
It was 1950 before the Catholic Church accepted the Virgin Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven as official dogma, but the notion had long been part of her legend and a subject for artists. One of the earliest large-scale depictions of this event in Italy was a rose window in the cathedral of Siena, designed by Duccio around 1288.
Beyond the box and people, and between them and Mary above, a person kneels on an olive-green
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Dorothea Lange, Untitled image (sharecropper house on dirt near Olive Hill, North
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
The ground and stream closest to us are painted in tones of olive green, sepia and
National Gallery Nights Matisse Advanced Artwork Search Christ on the Mount of Olives
No one parties like the gods—at least not like the mythological ones in this painting, a collaboration by the Renaissance artists Giovanni Bellini and Titian. The picture was the first in a series of bacchanals commissioned by Duke Alfonso d’Este to decorate the camerino d’alabastro (alabaster study) of his castle in Ferrara.
The two satyrs have men’s torsos and furry goat’s legs, and they have darker, olive
