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The Artist: Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique, beautifully exemplified in The Met’s painting of Saint Andrew by the description of the hands, the tilted book, and the dangling tassel and the refined tooling of the halo
University Park, Pa., 2001, p. 128 n. 39, attributes all five panels to Simone’s
The Artist: For a biography of Petrus Christus, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Painting: This mesmerizing image of Christ derives from the Gospels of Mark (15: 17–18) and John (19: 1–5) wherein Jesus was beaten, crowned with thorns, and dressed in a purple robe, subsequently to be presented by Pilate to the jeering crowd of Jews with the words „Ecce Homo“ (Behold the man)
University Park, Pa., 1990, p. 1 n. 4, pp. 56–59, 64–65, 70, fig. 58, dates it
The Artist: Dieric Bouts was initially mentioned by Lodovico Guicciardini as “Dirick d’Haarlem� in his Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore.[1] According to Karel van Mander, whose Schilder-boeck of 1604 described the life and works of 250 European painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Dieric Bouts was one of the founders of the Haarlem School of painting
University Park, Pa., 1990, pp. 53–54, fig. 51, dates it about 1460.
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Watteau, the son of a roofer, left Valenciennes for Paris about 1702 to work there as a copyist and assistant to Claude Gillot (1673–1722) and Claude III Audrun (1658–1734). He became interested in theater and fell under the spell of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
University Park, Pa., 2012, pp. 200, 317 n. 123.
Jean, Duke of Berry d. 1416 (1408/09–d. 1416; item no. 960 in 1413 inventory) ; Yolande, Queen of Sicily and Duchess of Anjou (1417–d.1443) ; Pierre-Gabriel Bourlier, baron d’Ailly (before 1879–sold by 1884) ; Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, Paris (by 1884–d
The Cloisters: The Building and the Collection of Medieval Art in Fort Tryon Park
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Art Elizabeth Melanie Gifford PhD, Art History, University of Maryland, College Park
One of Correggio’s most significant early works, this altarpiece was painted for a church in the artist’s hometown (from whence his name derives) to the east of Parma. It was commissioned by a local patron, Melchior Fassi, and hung in his chapel in the hospital church of Santa Maria Verberator, usually known as Santa Maria della Misericordia, until 1690
University Park, Pa., 2015, pp. 89–91, fig. 38 (color). David Ekserdjian.
