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passed nearly the entirety of his professional career in the United States as a professor
passed nearly the entirety of his professional career in the United States as a professor
Michel Sittow, a northern painter who was born in Estonia on the Baltic Sea but apprenticed in Bruges, was an acclaimed portraitist at the Spanish court. After Queen Isabella’s death in 1504, his peripatetic career took him to several northern European centers, including Burgundy, where he probably painted this portrait.
Professor Steppe also states that the diptych now divided between Berlin and Washington
His teacher, Professor Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (Key Set number 1), an expert in photographic
Hochschule, Berlin 1884 Winter Probably studies with the renowned photo-chemist Professor
In Sand Dipper, jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says, sounds how El Greco’s painting looks. And it feels like the question on Laocoön’s face as he looks up for the last time.
was also senior lecturer in the department of art and art history and a visiting professor
Girl with the Red Hat is one of Johannes Vermeer’s smallest works, and it is painted on panel rather than on his customary canvas. The girl has turned in her chair and interacts with the viewer through her direct gaze.
London and New York, 1948: 40, 90, pl. 22. 1949 Review of Professor van Thiereu
Hip-hop artist Jasiri X looks at Kerry James Marshall’s woodcut almost like he’s looking into a mirror. It captures the experience of a Black man: resilient but restrained from being his authentic self. Jasiri responds to the work through two songs that reflect on his internal struggle.
of Art James Meyer is curator of modern art at the National Gallery and adjunct professor
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novelist, photography critic for New York Times Magazine (2015–2019), and Gore Vidal Professor
introduced to photogravure and photomechanical processes by the renowned photo-chemist Professor
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s Death and the Miser and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.
the ensemble Longbow, Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, and Honorary Professor