In the 19th century, families often welcomed clergy into their homes, particularly when churches could not afford to offer housing. Here, Richard Norris Brooke depicts a traditional pastoral visit.
A bespectacled, white-haired man sits to our left, wearing a black coat and suit.
Fascination with the life and times of William Shakespeare abounded in the Victorian world, especially in London, where American artist Edwin Austin Abbey settled permanently in 1883. The Bard’s writings provided lifelong inspiration for Abbey:
The man closest to us on the left is cut off by the edge of the painting.
Jacopo Tintoretto was, along with Titian and Paolo Veronese , one of the three giants of 16th-century Venetian painting. No one else came close to matching the sheer number of pictures he provided for Venice’s churches, confraternities, government buildings, and private palaces.
oil on canvas · Accession ID 1952.5.79 Artwork Jacopo Tintoretto, A Kneeling Man
Middleman 1969 Lithograph Accession ID 1974.11.6 Not on view Artwork A Hard Man
1972.9.5 On View: NGA, East Building, EM-217-B Download artwork Artwork Man
Dogs appear in art as everything from faithful companions and symbols of loyalty and protection to working animals and sporting partners. No painter of canines was more famous than Edwin Landseer. His works were so celebrated that a mastiff breed was named after him.
about Husky Dog Sled Race, Spruce Run, Pennsylvania Close Modal Portrait of a Man
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Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A nearly nude, muscular man
Artists throughout the centuries, particularly the Dutch, have delighted in creating works that deceive a viewer into mistaking a painted image for reality itself. Illusionistic paintings are quite varied in character, but some of the most successful are images of relatively flat, inanimate objects, such as this extraordinary example of a print attached to a wooden plank with a red-wax seal.
piece of paper printed in black and gray, showing a portrait of an older, bearded man
