Travel with artists through Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell.
Virgil, the ancient Roman poet, guides this journey, which is split into three parts
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
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
Scroll to discover tiny brushstrokes, hidden meanings, and the immense impact on our understanding of the natural world.
him through years of travel and work as a court artist, including for the Holy Roman
transcriptions of notarial documents from the 16th and 17th centuries preserved in Roman
Montagu, Warburg Institute (1990) Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Metal Sculpture of 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
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
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
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
