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· oil on canvas · Accession ID 1939.1.250 Artwork Michelangelo, Head of a Man
· oil on canvas · Accession ID 1939.1.250 Artwork Michelangelo, Head of a Man
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2009.70.42.b Artwork Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, A Convivial Gathering with a Man
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silver print · Accession ID 2023.176.3 Artwork Addison Scurlock, Portrait of a Man
This three-part altarpiece by the painter Andrea di Vanni reflects a growing concern among 14th-century artists to historicize the Biblical narrative. To accomplish this, Andrea endeavored to recreate, with the greatest possible accuracy, the events surrounding Christ’s Passion.
A halo encircles the bent head of the man on the middle cross, Jesus, who wears a
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· Accession ID 1943.3.4405 Artwork Ferdinand Gaillard, The Man with the Pink
Visual Description Shown from the knees up, an older man sits next to a black, curly-haired
Louis Vallée took his subject from Giovanni Battista Guarini’s late sixteenth-century tragicomedy Il Pastor Fido, a pastoral play that glorified arcadian life and had far-ranging effects on the art and literature of France, Flanders, and the Netherlands. Its extremely intricate plot focuses on the love between the faithful shepherd Mirtillo and the nymph Amarillis, who is betrothed to Silvio by paternal arrangement.
with a short slash across her chest reclines into the arms of an older, bearded man
Visual Description A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal
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The skeleton represents Death and the man is the Miser.
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Return , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset. Cole drew on several sources, including Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott’s popular verses about warfare between the English and the Scots.
On a dirt path across the front of the picture, an armored man is carried on a red