Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
worship the Babylonian king, has thrown him into a lions’ den, expecting the wild
in June 1913 during Henri’s first visit to Achill Island, County Mayo, off the west
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Head of a Woman (English) Transcript NARRATOR: Many early twentieth century Western
Use your smartphone to explore a wide range of works through the voices of National Gallery of Art curators. Set your own pace by listening to as many stops as you like in the order you choose. Don’t forget to bring your headphones! To listen to information about a work of art, enter the stop number in the box below, select „go“, and press the play button when the stop appears. This tour is available in Español, Français, PуÑ�Ñ�кий, ä¸æ–‡, 日本語, and í•œêµì–´. Â
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The exhibition of Home, Sweet Home in the spring of 1863 auspiciously marked Winslow Homer’s debut as a painter. The painting was enthusiastically admired.
National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation, 2000) On View West
The door has crushed a wild-haired demon with red-colored skin against the pebble-strewn
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.
On View West Building Main Floor, Gallery 36 Artwork overview Medium oil on
the enormous locust in the hand of the child reminds us of the diet—locusts and wild
œBeckâ€�) Salsbury (1891–1968) The daughter of the manager of Buffalo Bill’s Wild
