The library’s image collections include photographs by thousands of photographers, from anonymous cameramen to well-known art photographers.
More Franco Rigamonti Roman baroque art and architecture (8,200 photographs and
The possibility of a Roman provenance is mentioned in Widener curator Edith Standen’s
Gold and silver threads add life to this tapestry, often described as the finest surviving from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Everything indicates that this was an important commission:
On the left, the Roman emperor Augustus learns from the Tiburtine sibyl (the female
Saenredam based his scene on a drawing from Heemskerck’s famous Roman sketchbook
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts resident community of international scholars consists of the Kress-Beinecke Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately 18 fellows at any one time, including senior fellows, visiting senior fellows, guest scholars, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and predoctoral fellows.In addition, the Center supports approximately 15 predoctoral fellows who are conducting research elsewhere, both in the United States and abroad.
Kress Senior Fellow, spring 2026 Aethiopians in Roman Art and Society: Race, Representation
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, on September 25, 1903. His parents were Jacob and Anna Goldin Rothkowitz, and Rothko was raised in a well-educated family with Zionist leanings.
From 1964 to 1967 Rothko worked on his third and last commission, a Roman Catholic
au sujet.� “Un tableau compose de huit figures, dont le sujet est tiré du Roman
The American artist challenges our ideas about the medium with some of the largest drawings you’ll ever see.
exaggerated the dark veins of the marble, making the building look like an ancient Roman
Rebecca went to the well outside her city and encountered a stranger who identified her as the answer to his prayers. The backstory, according to Genesis 24:11–22, is that the aged Abraham wanted a wife for his son Isaac and sent his senior steward to his homeland of Mesopotamia to find a suitable woman.
archduke of Austria [1614-1662], on behalf of his brother, Ferdinand III, Holy Roman
Travel with artists through Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell.
Virgil, the ancient Roman poet, guides this journey, which is split into three parts
