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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

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

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

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

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

A painting may provide a “window” into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
_Henri Matisse, roman. 2 vols. 1971:1:140, repro. no.

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

Her rather disconcerting presence suggests that she is indeed the mythological Roman