Giovanni della Casa, who is in all likelihood the subject of this portrait, belonged to a wealthy Tuscan family and rose to prominence in the service of the church. As poet, humanist, and political theorist, he circulated at the highest levels of Italian intellectual life.
Della Casa also wrote a book on manners, and in this portrait of the early 1540s
This is no “family� in the usual sense. A harlequin, a jester, a young man in a leotard, a boy in a blue costume, a girl in a tutu with a basket, and a woman in a flowered hat are arranged in this rose-hued landscape.
There’s no coherent, unified manner in the painting, which is one of the things
Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works came from the best–known episodes from ancient literature, but his conception of the stories was varied and original.
used by Tiepolo elsewhere but never in such a dramatic and emotionally intense manner
recently arrived immigrant slum dwellers and their dirty environments with all manner
appreciated the artist’s mastery at rendering fabrics with his smooth and modulated manner
Nevertheless, Both’s manner of painting differed from that of his colleagues in
Simone Martini depicts Saint Matthew holding a book, quill pen, and inkpot in the process of writing his Gospel. This panel, along with nine others of apostles, including three in the National Gallery of Art’s collection depicting Simon , James Major , and Thaddeus , were once part of the same altarpiece.
marriage that evolved to become the international style, a refined and courtly manner
Roses was painted shortly before Van Gogh’s release from the asylum at Saint–Rémy. He felt he was coming to terms with his illness—and himself.
The Sphere (13 July 1929): 105, repro. 1931 Mannes, Marya.
Saint Judas Thaddeus once decorated the predella of an altarpiece along with nine other small portraits of apostles, three of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art: Matthew , Simon , and James Major .
softness of the modeling displays most clearly Simone Martini’s refined pictorial manner
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.
Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural
