Looking up in amazement as Christ ascends into heaven are the twelve apostles. Kneeling with them is the Virgin, the only one to have a halo.
kneel on the ground to either side of a moss-green rock and gesture or gaze up at a man
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
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
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Much like Edith Johnson’s 1929 classic song “Good Chib Blues,� Romare Bearden’s intricate collage tells a story through repetition and rhythm. Here, clippings in shades of green, blue, tan, and brown create a powerful composition based on the artist’s childhood memories of rural North Carolina.
patterned paper in shades of asparagus and moss green, sky blue, tan, and ash brown, a man
fine black lines printed on cream-white paper, this vertical engraving shows a man
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, on September 25, 1903. His parents were Jacob and Anna Goldin Rothkowitz, and Rothko was raised in a well-educated family with Zionist leanings.
He was given his first one-man exhibition in 1933 at the Museum of Art in Portland
Jan van Goyen was one of the great proponents of the innovative “tonal� style of Dutch landscape painting that celebrated local scenes and subjects in hues of brown, gray, and ochre. The tonal landscapes of the 1630s and 1640s ushered in the golden age of Dutch landscape painting, and Van Goyen’s body of work spans the beginnings of this style through its transition into more colorful and atmospheric depictions.
Nearby, a man on his hands and knees scrambles for his fallen hat.
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
Schad Fund, 2023.91.3 More details about Genie Close Modal I Am A Man, Sanitation
the mid-1650s, Rembrandt began to focus on the frailty and the strength of the man
In this tempestuous scene, El Greco depicted an angry Christ driving the moneychangers from the Temple. An uncommon theme, it became increasingly popular in the latter half of the sixteenth century, promoted by the Council of Trent as a symbol of the Catholic church’s attempt to purify itself after the Protestant Reformation.
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