The merchant class emerging in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1550 was keen to express its status and prosperity through art. And the rise of oil painting offered them affordable options. Artists made paintings and sculptures to appeal to these new consumers, many intended as intimate works for their homes.
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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
War art often memorializes battles and turning points. It also commemorates military leaders, from classical era generals like Zenobia, to medieval heroes like Joan of Arc, to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the American Civil War. Today, war artists document the human cost of conflict, with photography serving as a powerful tool.
Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Volume 2) Close Modal Man
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
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Discover works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and learn about the artist
paper · Accession ID 2000.15.1 Artwork Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Bust of an Old Man
Hendrick Goltzius, who was born in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, came from a long line of artists: his great-grandfather and grandfather were both painters in Venlo, and his father, Jan Goltz II (1534–after 1609), was a glass painter in Duisburg.
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Steen’s painting has traditionally been called The Music Lesson, and the young man
This panel is part of a small triptych by one of the most sought-after artists in Florence: Nardo di Cione .
In a three-lobed shape in the apex above the woman and child, a nude man crosses
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Edward Hopper painted Cape Cod Evening in 1939 in Truro, a small fishing village on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The artist stated:
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