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Ligaya Mishan, a food and travel writer for the New York Times, reflects on an image of a surreal restaurant setting.
bellies in, this field Iconography / tells me stands for sadness / because the wind
Eakins’s Starting Out after Rail [fig6] and Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up (A Fair Wind
(Inlets that are deep and sheltered from wind and rough seas.)
Jan van Goyen was one of the great proponents of the innovative “tonal� style of Dutch landscape painting that celebrated local scenes and subjects in hues of brown, gray, and ochre. The tonal landscapes of the 1630s and 1640s ushered in the golden age of Dutch landscape painting, and Van Goyen’s body of work spans the beginnings of this style through its transition into more colorful and atmospheric depictions.
Slatter Gallery, London, 1949, no. 4, repro., as Skating Scene. 2018 Water, Wind
In this winter landscape, aristocrats, burghers, countrymen, and orphans take to the ice of the frozen Amstel River. From a young boy propelling himself with sticks on a prikslee (small push-sled) to the group of three stately men with no skates conversing by the riverbank, each of Van Breen’s figures colorfully brings to life the possible actions and interactions of a winter’s day on the ice.
Associated Names John Mitchell Fine Paintings Exhibition History 2018 Water, Wind
Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Winslow Homer American, 1836–1910 Breezing Up (A Fair Wind
Vroom (1566–1640). [6] Whether painting shipwrecks or vessels sailing in a brisk wind
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
The skirt flickers around the stick as if in a strong wind.
Rich and poor mingle on the frozen waters of a river. From the lower left corner, a man quietly observes the many skaters.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 1997, unnumbered brochure. 2018 Water, Wind
A humanist and polymath, Alberti in his treatises laid theoretical foundations for Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. This relief is a milestone in the history of portraiture, and it is the earliest independent self-portrait.
London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 56. 1958 Wind, Edgar.
