After Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger was the dominant French painter of the 20th century. For many years the National Gallery of Art had only two relatively minor paintings by the artist (both Chester Dale Collection, given in 1963).
The sign at right, which looks like a Roman numeral in the earlier picture, is legible
transcriptions of notarial documents from the 16th and 17th centuries preserved in Roman
Porter was the first known professional Black artist to specialize in still lifes, and his paintings were admired by the likes of writer Mark Twain and painter Frederic Edwin Church.
studied there through 1873, starting with drawing from casts of ancient Greek and Roman
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2008 Pompeii and the Roman
In the north Italian city of Padua, a major center of Renaissance bronze production, Riccio stood out as the most brilliant master. The Entombment of Christ is a recurring subject in his reliefs.
scene also recalls the funeral of the mythological hero Meleager, depicted on many Roman
Montagu, Warburg Institute (1990) Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Metal Sculpture of the Roman
Although Nicolas Poussin’s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected his style in Rome, incorporating the lessons of Renaissance and contemporary Italian painters into his own idiom. Poussin’s Baptism of Christ is one of a series of canvases illustrating the Seven Sacraments executed from 1638-1642 for his friend and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo.
which this painting was a part, hung in the main room of Cassiano’s 16th century Roman
Discover National Gallery of Art publications: from beautiful exhibition and collection catalogs and in-depth research monographs, to online reference works and symposia, to children’s books and visitor guides.
National Gallery of Art, Mary Beard tells the fascinating story of how images of Roman
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
not incarnate the land of light, the region of radiant intelligence, the Greco-Roman
Paul Sérusier was born in Paris, and signed on as a student at the Académie Julian—the largest private art academy in Paris—in 1884. In the summer and autumn of 1888 he traveled in Britanny, where he visited for several weeks the village of Pont-Aven.
[2] purchased 1925 by the Ulm Museum, Germany; (sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman
