Widener probably met Bode when the German art historian came to Philadelphia in 1893
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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
London and Philadelphia, 1910: 245, no. 227. 1919 Duret, Théodore.
Are artists sinners or saints? Gauguin paints himself as both.
1929), repro. 1937 Exhibition of French Painting, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia
and Jane Iandola Watkins, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting (Philadelphia
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.
Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the vulnerability of many Black kids—similar to the boy in Margaret Burroughs’s linocut, who hides himself. Her song Forever invites listeners not to hide, but to shine and share their “inner light� with the world.
at Harvard University; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art; and Philadelphia
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Philadelphia, 1913: unpaginated, no. 35, repro. Rosenberg, Adolf.
Studying artists and their works invites explorations of identity and the human condition. What drives artists to create? What choices do artists make, and why? Sometimes artists directly engage with questions of identity in their artwork: Who am I? How do I relate to others, and how do they relate to me?
King lived in Philadelphia for four years and only sold two paintings during that
Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship. He moved to Florence toward the end of 1504.
1999 Renaissance Culture and the Everyday. ed.Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt, Philadelphia
