Discover works by Domenico Ghirlandaio and learn about the artist
hardboard · Accession ID 1961.9.49 Artwork Italian 16th Century, Head of a Man
Borghese Collection Explore Selected Works Artwork Michelangelo, Head of a Man
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canvas · Accession ID 1963.10.153 Artwork Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Man
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date 1823 · Accession ID 1980.62.66 Artwork Micah Williams, 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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silver print · Accession ID 2023.176.3 Artwork Addison Scurlock, Portrait of a Man
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
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The skeleton represents Death and the man is the Miser.
Visual Description Shown from the knees up, an older man sits next to a black, curly-haired
