A master such as Tilman Riemenschneider transcended the limitation of monochromy, relying exclusively on his carving skills to achieve direct emotional appeal.
Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1999.
Villanova, Pa., 1881–New York, 1952
The Gallery of Living Art opened on December 12, 1927, at 100 Washington Square East
Scarborough, England, 1887–London, 1964
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Talismans that contain inscriptions with the names of prophets and religious heroes have the power to protect an individual from hardship and danger by acting as a conduit between the two.
Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2009.
Giovanni de Lutero, known as Dosso Dossi, painted this landscape with figures soon after becoming court artist to Duke Alfonso I d’Este of Ferrara, where the artist arrived by July 1513. The subject is generally given as the Three Ages of Man, analogous to Titian’s well-known painting of the subject (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh), with „youth“ represented by the youngsters who watch the amorous couple, who in turn represent „maturity“, while the two men in the background symbolize „old age“
Washington. National Gallery of Art.
Watteau, the son of a roofer, left Valenciennes for Paris about 1702 to work there as a copyist and assistant to Claude Gillot (1673–1722) and Claude III Audrun (1658–1734). He became interested in theater and fell under the spell of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
Washington. National Gallery of Art.
The Marimion Room was the principal parlor of Marmion, a plantation house built around 1756 by the Fitzhugh family of Virginia. The room’s elaborate painting was executed in the 1770s and is one of the most ambitious decorative schemes to survive from eighteenth-century America.
In 1797, the house was purchased by George Washington Lewis, and his descendants
