Ploughman in the Fields near Arles by Vincent van Gogh http://www.nga.gov/artworks/76291-ploughman-fields-near-arles
ink on tan paper, fields stretch away from us toward three farm buildings and a man
ink on tan paper, fields stretch away from us toward three farm buildings and a 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.
Dog Sled Race, Spruce Run, Pennsylvania Close Modal Portrait of a Man
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Févret de Saint-Mémin, Unidentified Man, 1798-1803, mezzotint and engraving in black
when his master was fifty years old—depicted Van Ostade as a considerably younger man
Rembrandt Peale’s Washington before Yorktown –one of the few life-size portraits of George Washington on horseback and only the second such depiction by an American artist—is a heroic portrayal of the father of the United States. The three-week siege of Yorktown occurred in early autumn 1781, near the end of the Revolutionary War.
Modal Zoom Controls Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A man
The Saint Luke and Saint Mark panels were part of a commission from Pope Pius V in 1569 to decorate the newly built Torre Pio (Pius Tower) in the Vatican. The project, for which Vasari was knighted by the pope, was finished in two years.
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Between 1812 and 1814, while Napoleon’s armies waged war across Europe, Théodore Gericault began a series of small canvases depicting Napoleonic cavalry officers. These paintings provided Gericault with the opportunity to explore two of the subjects that he loved best:
Each man wears a red sash across his chest, cream-white gloves that reach back to
Around 1616 Peter Paul Rubens engaged in a large tapestries series project about the heroic Roman consul Decius Mus. This panel, which is a small sketch or modello for the larger composition, depicted the first episode of that story, which normally consisted of seven or eight scenes.
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Visual Description A man, woman, a small table, chair, and two fragments of walls
painting is actor George Fitzgerald, who also served as the model for Walt Kuhn’s The Man