The Entombment of Christ by Fra Angelico https://www.nga.gov/artworks/401-entombment-christ
Description Nine people are gathered in a landscape around the gaunt body of a young man
Description Nine people are gathered in a landscape around the gaunt body of a young man
Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
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Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The man to our left rides a chestnut-brown horse and wears a red jacket and a black
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Between 1600 and 1608, Peter Paul Rubens lived and worked in Italy, where he immersed himself in the study of ancient sculpture. He admired the idealized beauty of its classical forms and recognized its importance as a pictorial source for Greek and Roman history.
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One man stands at the back of the boat and pushes it along with a long pole.
should face toward her, as in, for example, Frans Hals’s Portrait of a Young Man
Visual Description We look down onto a shadowy stage with a ballerina and a man
During the 1830s, traveling with fur company representatives, cavalry officers, and later alone on multiple western journeys, George Catlin gathered drawings, sketches, and notes that would allow him to create an “Indian Gallery�—a collection of more than 500 paintings of American Indians. By the end of the decade, he would be widely recognized as the most celebrated painter of America’s native people.
This vertical portrait shows the head, shoulders, and chest of an indiginous Iowan man
This painting of the Crucifixion by Andrea di Vanni (Sienese, c. 1330 – 1413) reflects a growing concern among 14th-century artists to historicize the Biblical narrative.
A halo encircles the bent head of the man on the middle cross, Jesus, who wears a