Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most expressive artists of the 17th century. His great contribution to genre painting was to give a face to the peasant, to infuse his images of these lower-class individuals with recognizable and vividly expressed human emotions—anger, joy, pain, and pleasure.
University Park, 2020: ii color repro., iv, 141, 142 color fig. 82.
The Minnesota painter merged abstract expressionism with traditional Ojibwe values.Â
George Morrison / Briand Morrison Morrison in New York City’s Washington Square Park
Elizabeth Linley was a successful singer in London before marrying playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Their union was not happy:
of Arts, London, 1886, no. 103. 1936 Gainsborough, Sir Philip Sassoon’s, 45 Park
Isabella Brant was the first wife of the Antwerp master Peter Paul Rubens, whom she married shortly after his return from Italy in 1609. Just before Anthony van Dyck, one-time protégé and frequent collaborator of Rubens, left Antwerp in October 1621 for his own extended stay in Italy, he apparently presented this portrait to his mentor.
University Park, 2020: 14, color fig. 8, 174, nt. 46.
How do visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance explore black identity and political empowerment? How does visual art of the Harlem Renaissance relate to current-day events and issues? How do migration and displacement influence cultural production?
, Humanities Texas Jim Crow Laws, Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historical Park
Welcome! Visiting the National Gallery of Art for the first time? Only have an hour to spend? That’s enough time to connect with intimate portraits, discover „action painting,“ and meet a 14-foot-tall rooster.
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic
Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work is one of three known paintings from a cycle by Jacopo Tintoretto depicting the personifications of the four Seasons.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1993.
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This panel is part of a triptych painted by two artists:
private collection.[2] Joseph Russell Bailey [1840-1906], 1st Baron Glanusk, Glanusk Park
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This panel is part of a triptych painted by two artists:
private collection.[2] Joseph Russell Bailey [1840-1906], 1st Baron Glanusk, Glanusk Park
Commissioned from the celebrated American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the early 1880s and dedicated as a monument in 1897, The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial has been acclaimed as the greatest American sculpture of the 19th century. The memorial commemorates the valiant efforts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Civil War regiments of African Americans enlisted in the North.
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic
