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Rembrandt, Man with a Magnifying Glass 5245.
By 1 A.D., Rome was transformed from a city of modest brick and local stone into a metropolis of marble.
Marble statue of a draped seated man Zeuxis 1st century BCE Head of Augustus
Features monumental art from New Guinea, Pacific islands, Australia, and Island Southeast Asia—regions united by shared Indigenous ancestry.
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In one remarkable decade, Sargent gained acclaim with bold portraits and figure paintings that challenged artistic conventions.
John Singer Sargent c. 1877 Light and Shade John Singer Sargent c. 1874-1877 Man
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Gospels, a Flemish tapestry with allegorical representations of the Twelve Ages of Man
[Marcel Duchamp’s] most striking, iconoclastic gesture, the readymade, is arguably the century’s most influential development on artists’ creative process.
Here, This Is Stieglitz Here Francis Picabia 1915 Dust Breeding Man Ray 1920
Leonardo’s curiosity and insatiable hunger for knowledge never left him. He was constantly observing, experimenting, and inventing, and drawing was, for him, a tool for recording his investigation of nature.
Design for a Stage Setting (verso) Leonardo da Vinci 1496 The Head of a Grotesque Man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Rembrandt, Man with a Magnifying Glass 5245.
However, a crucial aspect of Rembrandt’s development was his intense study of people, objects, and their surroundings “from life.”
Man with a Magnifying Glass Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) early 1660s Woman with
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Wilderness Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) ca. 1515–20 Portrait of a Man
