Homer developed a penchant for forceful realism early in his career. Following an apprenticeship in a Boston lithography shop, he supported himself as a freelance illustrator, creating a wide variety of popular images that subsequently were published as wood engravings in national periodicals like Harper’s Weekly .
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1990: 1:viii, 106-118,
When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
Curry, David Park. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art.
illuminates the façade of a handsome Palladian villa situated on a small rise in a park
Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
until at least 1850.[4] Henry Labouchere, 1st baron Taunton [1798-1869], Stoke Park
Although Nicolas Poussin’s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected his style in Rome, incorporating the lessons of Renaissance and contemporary Italian painters into his own idiom. Poussin’s Baptism of Christ is one of a series of canvases illustrating the Seven Sacraments executed from 1638-1642 for his friend and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo.
University Park, Pa., 1993: 191, 197, 199, 252.
This painting is regarded as one of the finest of all Titian’s portraits. Doge Andrea Gritti’s ferocious expression and imposing figure convey an awe-inspiring authority.
University Park, PA, 2010: 93-95. Overdick, Michael.
Here is Dutch artist Judith Leyster at her easel, taking a break from painting to engage with us. In what might be considered an early selfie, she leans her forearm on the chair and suspends her paintbrush in midair, as if she’ll turn back to the canvas in a moment.
University Park, Pennsylvia, 1988: 220; 236, fig. 9-19; 237, fig. 9-20, X-ray; 238
Gordon Parks wants us to know he’s a photographer.
Gallery Nights Matisse Advanced Artwork Search Self-Portrait 1941 Gordon Parks
New York, 1895), 334–335; quoted in Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park
The composition of this Virgin and Child is loosely based on the Hodegetria , one of the more powerful and enduring icon types of the Orthodox Christian church. The Virgin gestures toward the child to show him as the “way� ( hodos in Greek), the source of salvation.
University Park, PA, 1997: 77, fig. 5. Cracraft, James.
