Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), one of the greatest masters of the 17th century, painted this masterpiece as a young artist in Rome. Rubens depicted a moment of high drama in this popular Greek myth that was famously recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (c.
Rubens and the Roman Circle: Studies of the First Decade.
Larsen-Roman, Lucy. "Letter from America."
Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
develop his skills in representing male anatomy, the artist studied ancient Greek and Roman
friendships with a number of foreign artists who were interested in capturing the Roman
In 1775, Gilbert Stuart set sail for London where Benjamin West welcomed the destitute young man into his home. The Skater marks the end of his five-year apprenticeship to West.
Except for his folded arms, the figure’s stance derives from an ancient Roman statue
Both this panel of Ginevra Bentivoglio and the companion portrait of her husband, Giovanni II Bentivoglio, also in the National Gallery of Art, were created when the family was at the height of its power. Giovanni, a major political figure in northern Italy, ruled the city of Bologna from 1463 until his expulsion for tyranny in 1506.
Renaissance profile portraits recalled the images of emperors and deities on the ancient Roman
Washington panel in format and in its ornamental punched decoration, comes from the Roman
Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship. He moved to Florence toward the end of 1504.
A Roman soldier of Christian faith, Saint George saved the daughter of a pagan king
prizefights at this time. [5] The boxer on the right, whose pose is reminiscent of the Roman
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