Staff at the National Museum of Natural History helped us identify the animals and insects in our collection.
likely commissioned the prints for fellow members of the Academy of the Lynx-Eyed, a Roman
The obscure iconography of Dosso’s canvas has caused much speculation. In the past it has been titled simply Scene from a Legend and, more often, Departure of the Argonauts.
Designed to celebrate the origin and growth of the Roman Empire, the Aeneid tells
Fascination with the life and times of William Shakespeare abounded in the Victorian world, especially in London, where American artist Edwin Austin Abbey settled permanently in 1883. The Bard’s writings provided lifelong inspiration for Abbey:
Art Institute of Chicago, 22 October – 1 December 1907, no. 1, as Sylvia. 1911 Roman
Like many American artists of his generation, George Bellows was interested in the various urban construction projects that transformed New York City into an ultramodern metropolis. By the time he commenced work on The Lone Tenement in December 1909, he had completed four paintings devoted to the excavation site of the new Pennsylvania Station, culminating in the Gallery’s Blue Morning (painted in March 1909).
Collection of Pictures and Sculpture in the Pavilion of the United States of America, Roman
Reynolds sought to elevate British painting, including portraiture, to the lofty realms of classical expression. After traveling to Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Venice, Reynolds became the first president of the Royal Academy, which had been founded in 1768.
Discourses, he urged the adoption of grand classical values and the study of Greek and Roman
The inventive Italian artist is considered one of the most important sculptors of Europe’s revolutionary period.
political adviser to Marie Antoinette’s oldest brother, Joseph II (who ruled the Holy Roman
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him through years of travel and work as a court artist, including for the Holy Roman
Her rather disconcerting presence suggests that she is indeed the mythological Roman
Meet the country’s leading painters who developed their own style of modern art.
Over time, its practitioners adapted some Roman Catholic traditions and created new
The art historical literature generally asserts that the great Sienese painter cited in a document of 1320 as “Petrus quondam Lorenzetti � and who signed himself as “Petrus Laurentii� is to be identified with the Petruccio di Lorenzo paid in 1306 for a panel, now lost, painted for the Sienese government. If that is the case, then his date of birth is unlikely to have been any later than 1280.[1] The prestigious commission presupposes, in fact, that he must have been a well-established artist by this date.
execution, was replaced in the nineteenth century by another bearing a date in Roman
