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· oil on canvas · Accession ID 1942.9.39 Artwork Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man
Discover works by Leo Nardus and learn about the artist
· oil on canvas · Accession ID 1942.9.39 Artwork Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man
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bronze · Accession ID 1957.14.756 Artwork Venetian 15th Century, Portrait of a Man
Valentin de Boulogne was born near Boulogne (from whence he takes his last name) in Picardy. He came from a family of artists, but little else is known of his early life and training.
chest, and he pulls the front one up with a forefinger and thumb as he looks at the man
Although his name occurs in documents for the first time in the years between 1346 and 1348, when he enrolled in the Arte dei Medici e Speziali (the Florentine guild to which painters also belonged),[1] Nardo, brother of the painters Andrea and Jacopo , was already considered one of the leading painters of his city by midcentury.[2] An artist whose paintings have been described as fragile, delicate, dreamy, or remote , characterized by a peculiar, “lyrical mood,�[3] Nardo must have been trained under the influence of such painters as Maso and Stefano. Of the few works by his hand cited in the documents, only the fragments of a cycle of frescoes in the Oratorio del Bigallo in Florence, commissioned in 1363, have survived, but it has been argued, probably correctly, that an image of the Madonna formerly in the Ufficio della Gabella dei Contratti, once signed and dated 1356, can be identified with the panel of the Madonna and Child with four saints now in the Brooklyn Museum in New York.[4] It is also certain that the painter made his will in May 1365 and that by the following year he was already reported dead.
Nardo di Cione, Madonna and Child, with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist, and Man
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1875 Explore Selected Works Artwork Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Bust of a Chinese Man
Accession ID 2006.128.12 Artwork Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of a Young Man
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oil on canvas · Accession ID 1960.6.36 Artwork Rembrandt van Rijn, Beggar Man
silk · Accession ID 1970.20.5.a Artwork Tyrolean 15th Century, Portrait of a Man
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, 1867 – 1934 Explore Selected Works Artwork Florentine 15th Century, An Old Man
Cezanne · c. 1880 · oil on canvas · Accession ID 1972.9.2 Artwork Paul Cezanne, Man