Join us for a tour of Photography and the Black Arts Movement as seen through the lens of the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s.
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Join us for a tour of Photography and the Black Arts Movement as seen through the lens of the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s.
You may also like A man and a child looking at a sculpture in the National Gallery
Discover works by George Hibbert and learn about the artist
1837 Explore Selected Works Artwork Rembrandt van Rijn, Bust of an Old Bearded Man
Discover works by Phillips and learn about the artist
Accession ID 2002.80.1 Artwork Flemish 17th century, Jan Cossiers, Portrait of a Man
Discover works by Ferdinand Gaillard and learn about the artist
· 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
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
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
Visual Description A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal
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
