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Renaissance bronze sculpture often served practical functions. This doorknocker is one of the finest examples of a specialty of the city of Venice, where Jacopo Sansovino dominated sculptural and architectural projects for some forty years.
The male’s outstretched left arm unites them, and each figure’s outer arm winds up
Imaginary River Landscape , monogrammed and dated 1670, is one of Herman Saftleven’s most charming and delicately rendered depictions of this meandering river valley. Here he has harkened back to the worldview landscapes of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, positioning the viewer in an elevated position so that the expansive vista extends to the distant horizon.
More people work on and around boats in the arctic-blue river that winds into the
trees by the waterway, which splits near the lower right corner of the painting and winds
Most of the other people look or gesture toward the river, which winds in deep S-curves
Polke chose to reproduce only parts of his source, omitting the god of winds who
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Departure , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset . The lord of a great castle and his company leave for a quest in the bright light of an early spring morning.
Tall or craggy trees grow along the side of the path as it winds into the distance
Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Return , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset. Cole drew on several sources, including Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott’s popular verses about warfare between the English and the Scots.
Beyond the moss-green, grassy area around the path and church, a river winds under
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
ride horses toward and through a herd of buffalo, which spreads along a river that winds
water’s edge of an inland waterway, eight cows quietly chew their cud in the gentle winds
A narrow, vivid cobalt-blue cloth winds and flutters around his body from behind
