Dancers at the Old Opera House by Edgar Degas https://www.nga.gov/artworks/52170-dancers-old-opera-house
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 5, pl.
A favorite Florentine Renaissance sculptural type, this bust of a young boy reveals Desiderio as one of the finest marble carvers of all time. Even Leonardo da Vinci learned from his subtle transitions and sensitive expressions.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 221, no. A-2, pl.
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Jacob van Ruisdael represents the pinnacle of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. This great artist, the son of a painter and the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael (see NGA 2007.116.1), began his career in Haarlem but moved to Amsterdam in about 1656.
Washington, 1960: 18, color repro.
A disheveled figure with knee and head injuries and a crutch sits in a mostly empty tavern. Holding a glass of hard cider, he tells his tale to the tavern keeper, the younger man across from him.
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It might be said that with paintings like this one, Annibale Carracci invented the landscape as a subject for Italian baroque painting. Nature here is appreciated first and foremost for herself and not as the backdrop for a story.
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