Irene di Spilimbergo was about 20 years old when this painting was begun. Along with a pendant portrait of her older sister, Emilia, the two paintings were probably initially commissioned in anticipation of the prospective marriages of the two sitters.
A deep landscape on the left half has rolling hills, trees, and mountains reaching
Carpaccio reimagined the Madonna and Child theme when he made this painting. Instead of wearing a traditional blue cloak, the Virgin Mary, or Madonna, is clothed in fashionable Venetian dress.
lined with bushes leads to the water’s edge, where ice-blue water leads back to rolling
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.
Hobbema’s rolling clouds allow patches of sunshine to illuminate the rutted roads
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Hopper NGA, West Building, G-006, N The blue sky, sun-kissed figures, and vast rolling
