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
€“1890 This fascinating book examines responses to the excavations of ancient 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
They would often collect works of art – older works of art including Greek and Roman
prizefights at this time. [5] The boxer on the right, whose pose is reminiscent of the Roman
Caspar Netscher trained in Deventer with Gerard ter Borch, from about 1654 to 1659. Like his teacher, Netscher became an outstanding portraitist as well as a master of portraying the social interactions of the Dutch elite.
spilling out over the bottom ledge adds to the illusionism as it partially obscures roman
focus on the mother and child in the center of the scene are reminiscent of such Roman
Aphrodite and Selene, the moon goddess (who would later be associated with the Roman
