Don Quixote Attacking the Windmill by Jean Honoré Fragonard https://www.nga.gov/artworks/111597-don-quixote-attacking-windmill
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Sensational and scandalous for an American audience unused to seeing classically nude statues of women, this figure by Hiram Powers caused a frenzy when it was first exhibited in the mid-19th century. Curious viewers came in droves to see it after Powers sent several copies from Italy, where he created the work.
"Waifs From Washington."
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Verrocchio, a favorite artist of the Medici, may have created this lively and commanding portrait on the occasion of a joust that took place in 1475 in Florence for Giuliano de‘ Medici’s coming of age. The bust was originally painted and possibly adorned with a metal helmet and other decoration, projecting an exuberance especially evident in the winged face modeled on Giuliano’s fanciful armor.
Washington, 1968: 152, repro. 1971 Seymour, Charles.
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Painted during a period of labor unrest in 1925, The Fire Boss was intended as a life-size personification of a profession rather than a portrait of a specific individual. Despite his downcast, bedraggled appearance, the miner exudes defiance and inner resolve.
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