Poised tiptoe on a globe, this chubby cherub seems to pirouette, inviting interest from all angles. His complex movement in space is remarkable for a date so early in the Renaissance.
, 2019-2020, Washington catalogue, repro.no. 18, repro.
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This groundbreaking exhibition explores how women emerged as a driving force in modern photography from the 1920s to the 1950s, bringing their own perspectives to artistic experimentation, studio portraiture, fashion and advertising work, scenes of urban life, ethnography, and photojournalism.
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Right and Left refers to the shooting of two birds, one just after the other, with a double barreled shotgun. Winslow Homer may have seen hunters perform this feat at sea near his studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Prouts Neck, Maine.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Freestanding and worked entirely in the round, this statuette is a masterpiece from the thriving carved-alabaster industry in medieval England. Due to its fragility and to attacks during later iconoclasm, much of this type of English sculpture was eventually destroyed.
Washington, 1968: 136, repro. 1975 Walker, John.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than in the work of Frans Hals, who was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. This unidentified sitter—one of Hals’ most impressive portraits—was sixty years old when the painting was made, according to the artist’s inscription.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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