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Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées] Ennemond Alexandre Petitot 1771, 1764 The Round Tower
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with the Virgin and Child between Saint Catherine and Saint Dorothy, from north tower
Once the toast of Paris, avant-garde photographer Germaine Krull held a mirror to queer life in interwar France.
turned her lens on the soaring structures of industrial Europe: Rotterdam’s railroad bridge
Eltville am Rhein, Germany, 1873–Bad Honnef, Germany, 1955
his design Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), which proposed a freestanding tower
Etching offered Whistler the opportunity to sketch ideas quickly, then slowly refine and develop them through multiple states, creating variations with expressive inking.
Millbank James McNeill Whistler 1861 Weary James McNeill Whistler 1863 Chelsea Bridge
Beerstraten drew and painted numerous views in Amsterdam and in nearby villages. The paintings usually feature one prominent building in a snow-dusted landscape, with ice skaters and other figures on a frozen waterway in the foreground
The church tower of Amstelveen, to the southeast of Sloten, is visible in the left
The first convincing argument for the attribution of this work to Van Borssom was made by Niemeijer in 1962, and the attribution was adopted by the Museum in 1990. In his approximately two dozen known paintings and in his numerous drawings, Van Borssom proves to have been an eclectic artist whose ideas came from a considerable variety of Dutch painters and draftsmen
as „Cows in a Meadow: A Cow Being Milked,“ by Paulus Potter; suggests that the tower
Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV gilded Prague’s royal towers “so that they might powerfully
When Charles IV died, artists lined the bridge of the city to honor him as the funeral
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of tourists eager to see its imposing castle, its soaring cathedral and mighty bridge
The Artist: For a biography of Petrus Christus, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Subject and Function of the Painting: After Christ’s crucifixion, his corpse was taken down from the cross and prepared for burial
of Arimathea and Nicodemus, stand out in their contemporary attire, offering a bridge
