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Frescoes in the Cartuja de Aula Dei [SEP] collection | Frescoes in the Cartuja de Aula Dei
The Frescoes in the Cartuja de Aula Dei (1774) are a cycle of frescoes or mural paintings on the Life of the Virgin by Francisco de Goya, realised in "secco" (i.e., painted in oils directly onto the wall surface), in the church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei () near Peñaflor de Gáll... | de Zaragoza "InfoGoya": Goya en la Cartuja de Aula Dei
- GoyaRestauracion.com: Website of the restoration of the frescoes 1978-79 | 7,600 | zeroshot-train |
Fuglevad [SEP] collection | Fuglevad
Fuglevad is a locality on the Mølleåen river in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Fuglevad Watermill, located approximately one kilometer downstream from Lyndby Nordre Mølle, has a history that dates back to the 15th century but the current buildings are from the 1870s... | documents the growth of industry along the river and has a large collection of historic clothing. Located at the mouth of the river, Strandmøllen (the Beach Mill) from 1599 is a historic paper mill. With a history dating back to at least the 15th century, Lyngby Mill with its large water wheel has been restored and is ... | 7,601 | zeroshot-train |
Fuller Brooch [SEP] collection | Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon silver and niello brooch dated to the late 9th century, which is now in the British Museum, where it is normally on display in Room 41. The elegance of the engraved decoration depicting the Five Senses, highlighted by being filled with niello, makes it one of the most h... | eighth century, evolve into the strip brooch. Miscellaneous brooches during this time period include the bird, the ottonian, the recntangle and the cross motif. The best-known examples of Anglo-Saxon brooches are the Sutton brooch, the Sarre brooch, the Fuller Brooch, the Strickland Brooch, the Kingston Brooch and the ... | 7,602 | zeroshot-train |
Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth [SEP] collection | Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth
Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth (1890) is an oil on canvas still life by Martin Johnson Heade acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1982. Heade made significant contributions to floral still-life painting during the course of his career, the NGA points out, with "Giant... | , American : "Ship "Arkansas" Leaving Havana", oil on canvas, ID: 1956.13.4
- Childe Hassam (1859–1935), American : "Nude Seated", oil on canvas, ID: 1963.10.156
- George A. Hayes (active c. 1870/1885), American : "Bare Knuckles", oil on paperboard on wood panel, ID: 1980.62.9
- Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), Americ... | 7,603 | zeroshot-train |
Girl in White [SEP] collection | Girl in White
Girl in White (also known as Young Girl Standing Against a Background of Wheat and Woman in a Cornfield) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, during the last months of his life. "Girl in White" has been part of the Chester Dale Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Wash... | Currie as Saloon Girl
Production notes.
Production Dates: mid-Sep--mid-Dec 1970
According to Filmfacts, portions of the picture were shot on location at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Studio publicity adds that the ranch used in the film was the Oliver M. Lee Ranch near Alamogordo, NM, and that Alamog... | 7,604 | zeroshot-train |
Girl in a Blue Dress [SEP] collection | Girl in a Blue Dress
Girl in a Blue Dress, also called Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue () or simply Portrait of a Girl (), is an oil painting by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. It was acquired by the museum in 1928 as a gift from the .
Provenance.
In 1912 the wealthy merchant and ... | others. The character of Sonali debuted a new face mold to represent her Indian heritage.
The Chrissa doll has light skin, blue eyes and dark brown/near black hair. She comes in a pink wrap-around long sleeved dress with a floral print.
Her face mold is the Josefina Montoya mold.
Girl of the Year dolls Lanie Holland.
L... | 7,605 | zeroshot-train |
Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian [SEP] collection | Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian
The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian was a weekly English-language local newspaper that circulated in Breconshire, Glamorganshire, and Monmouthshire.
Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 493 issues of the Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon... | The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian
The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian was a weekly English language newspaper, supportive of conservative politics, which circulated throughout Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire and Breconshire. The newspaper's main content included local news. The paper began life as the Glamorgan, Monmouth and... | 7,606 | zeroshot-train |
Godescalc Evangelistary [SEP] collection | Godescalc Evangelistary
The Godescalc Evangelistary, Godescalc Sacramentary, Godescalc Gospels, or Godescalc Gospel Lectionary (Paris, BNF. lat.1203) is an illuminated manuscript in Latin made by the Frankish scribe Godescalc and today kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was commissioned by the Carolingian... | of replacing the Merovingian script was lasting. The Carolingian minuscule was so successful that after the year 800, most of France had adopted the new way of writing. Although the Evangelistary is named after Godescalc, the production involved a team of writers, editors, Godescalc himself (who was a poet and scribe),... | 7,607 | zeroshot-train |
Golden Hat of Schifferstadt [SEP] collection | Golden Hat of Schifferstadt
The Golden Hat of Schifferstadt () was discovered in a field near the town of Schifferstadt in Southwest Germany in 1835. It is a Bronze Age artefact made of thin sheet gold and served as the external decoration of a head-dress, probably of an organic material, with a brim and a chin-strap. ... | Golden hat
Golden hats (or Gold hats) (, singular: ) are a very specific and rare type of archaeological artifact from Bronze Age Europe. So far, four such objects ("cone-shaped gold hats of the Schifferstadt type") are known. The objects are made of thin sheet gold and were attached externally to long conical and brim... | 7,608 | zeroshot-train |
Gorleston Psalter [SEP] collection | Gorleston Psalter
The Gorleston Psalter (British Library Manuscript Additional 49622) is a 14th-century manuscript notable for containing early music instruction and for its humorous marginalia.
It is named for the town of Gorleston in Norfolk.
Description.
The Gorleston Psalter is richly illustrated, with frequent il... | Douai Psalter
The Douai Psalter is an East Anglian illuminated manuscript, severely damaged during World War I. The psalter, or Book of Psalms, was produced in the 1330s. The artwork was produced by the same scribe who illuminated the Macclesfield and Gorleston Psalters. Like the Gorleston Psalter, the Douai Psalter wa... | 7,609 | zeroshot-train |
Green Caesar [SEP] collection | Green Caesar
The Green Caesar is a portrait of Gaius Julius Caesar made of green slate kept in the Antikensammlung Berlin with the inventory number Sk 342, which was probably made in the first century AD.
Description.
The portrait is 41 centimetres high and therefore a little over life size. It is made of green slate r... | Core Collection" calling it "a good value purchase."
Track listing.
1. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Razaf–Waller) – 3:50
2. "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Jones–Cochran–Salvador) – 3:57
3. "Crazy Rhythm" (Caesar–Meyer–Kahn) – 3:23
4. "Blue Star" (Carter) – 5:19
5. "Cotton Tail" (Ellington) – 4:24
6. "Body and Soul" (Green | 7,610 | zeroshot-train |
Group portrait of an unknown family or company [SEP] collection | Group portrait of an unknown family or company
Group portrait of an unknown family or company (1658–1660) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
This painting by Hooch was document... | it hung close to the More family portrait.
- "Henry Ireton" by Walker. Bought by the National Portrait Gallery in 1858. It has an inscription saying General Ireton, but is now described as an unknown man by an unknown artist.
- "Elizabeth Tanfield, Countess Falkland" by Paul van Somer; this (or perhaps a copy) was subs... | 7,611 | zeroshot-train |
Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm 1523 [SEP] collection | Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm 1523
Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm 1523 (or Gustav Vasa enters Stockholm 1523) is a painting painted for the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson. It was completed in 1908. The painting depicts Gustav Vasa of Sweden as he is about to enter Stockholm in 1523 to ... | were not kept prisoner at Blue Tower but in Kalundborg, where she is confirmed to have been at least when the Swedish king later negotiated for her release.
After about two years imprisonment, the political situation changed. In January 1523 Christian II was deposed by Frederick I of Denmark and Christina's nephew Gust... | 7,612 | zeroshot-train |
Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph [SEP] collection | Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph
Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph was a weekly English-language newspaper which circulated Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire. The paper featured news coverage and editorials on the arts.
Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 713 issues of the Haverfordwest & Milford Haven... | Western Telegraph
The Western Telegraph is a Welsh regional newspaper covering Pembrokeshire and bordering Carmarthenshire. Founded in 1854 as the "Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph", it is published weekly in print with an online edition. The newspaper is published by Newsquest.
The newspaper was the highest sel... | 7,613 | zeroshot-train |
Healing of Abiku Children [SEP] collection | Healing of Abiku Children
Healing of Abiku Children is a piece created by the Nigerian artist Twins Seven-Seven in 1973, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. It consists of a large wooden plaque intricately carved and dyed with pigment to depict an impo... | sculptural quality due to the combination of carving and coloring the wood.
Description Acquisition.
"Healing of Abiku Children" was commissioned in 1972 by Dr. Hanus Grosz of Indianapolis, who requested a work on "healing".
In 1993, "Healing of Abiku Children" was given to the IMA by Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Eiteljorg. I... | 7,614 | zeroshot-train |
Hengwrt Chaucer [SEP] collection | Hengwrt Chaucer
The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early-15th-century manuscript of the "Canterbury Tales", held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. It is an important source for Chaucer's text, and was possibly written by someone with access to original authorial holograph, now lost.
The "Hengwrt Chauc... | the Brut y Tywysogion. The collection includes an important early copy of Chaucer also known as the ""Hengwrt Chaucer"" or, misleadingly, the "Hengwrt Manuscript".
These manuscripts remained safe in the Hengwrt library for 300 years, although several others in the collection (including the Hendregadredd Manuscript and ... | 7,615 | zeroshot-train |
Hoa Hakananai'a [SEP] collection | Hoa Hakananai'a
Hoa Hakananai'a is a "moai" (Easter Island statue) housed in the British Museum in London. It was taken from Orongo, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in November 1868 by the crew of the British ship , and arrived in England in August 1869. Though relatively small, it is considered to be typical of the island’s ... | island of Rarotonga. Only one other similar figure, from the George Ortiz collection, is known.
See also.
- Hoa Hakananai'a
- Statue of A'a from Rurutu
- Mangareva Statue
Further reading.
- Catalogue: The George Ortiz Collection (Benteli Publishers Ltd., Bern, 1993, ), catalogue entry n°274
- D. Idiens, 'A recently dis... | 7,616 | zeroshot-train |
Hotel Lobby [SEP] collection | Hotel Lobby
Hotel Lobby is an oil painting on canvas by American realist painter Edward Hopper; it is held in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
Description.
The painting depicts two women and a man in the lobby of a hotel. On the right is a woman with blond... | News announced that the Gran Hotel in Costa Rica became a member of the Choice International and Reals Hotels & Resorts chain resulting in renaming the hotel. The hotel name was changed to The Gran Hotel Costa Rica Ascend Collection and announced on December 14 through a press release.
Effective Sep 10 2018 it will be ... | 7,617 | zeroshot-train |
Hours of Saint-Omer [SEP] collection | Hours of Saint-Omer
The Hours of Saint-Omer (London, British Library Additional Manuscript 36684) is an illuminated book of hours produced in Northern France for the use of Marguerite de Beaujeu around 1320-1330. It follows the Arras liturgy. The manuscript gains its name from the fact that its calendar gives special a... | a Catholic school that operated from about 1594 to 1793
- Battle of Saint-Omer, Hundred Years War, 1340
- Hours of Saint-Omer, illuminated manuscript of
- Siege of Saint-Omer, Thirty Years War, 1638 | 7,618 | zeroshot-train |
Hylck Boner [SEP] collection | Hylck Boner
Portrait of Hylck Boner is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1635 and now in the Frick Collection. It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Hylck's husband Johannes Saeckma.
Life.
Hylck Boner became engaged to Johannes 28 August 1603. He was a lawyer involved with the Ho... | 1940–2005), American football player and coach
- Hylck Boner, wife of 17th century Dutch magistrate Johannes Saeckma, notably the subject of a painting by Frans Hals
- Jan Boner (before 1463–1523), also known as Hans Boner, German-born Polish merchant and banker
- John Henry Boner (1845–1903), North Carolina poet
- Ser... | 7,619 | zeroshot-train |
In the Conservatory [SEP] collection | In the Conservatory
In the Conservatory (French: "Dans la serre") is an 1879 oil painting by Édouard Manet in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, depicting Manet's friends, a couple, in a conservatory. There is an ambiguity in the painting that has led art critics to characterize the couple's relationship in divergent wa... | the institution, including that of Victor Herbert and Antonín Dvořák, director of the conservatory from Sep. 27, 1892 to 1895. (It was at the conservatory that Dvořák composed his famous E minor Symphony and subtitled it, at Thurber's suggestion, "From the New World".)
Active years.
The idea of federally funded nationa... | 7,620 | zeroshot-train |
Interior with a Mother close to a Cradle [SEP] collection | Interior with a Mother close to a Cradle
Interior with a Mother close to a Cradle (c. 1663) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot i... | which was part of the Wellcome Collection Grant in 2012.
Work "What Cultural Fabric?" (2010).
Kyambi says that the images were close-ups of a shirt that belonged to her mother. The shirt becomes a fabric and could be mistaken for hessian cloth. This shirt symbolises growth, agriculture, construction and interior decora... | 7,621 | zeroshot-train |
Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin [SEP] collection | Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin
Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin (1659-1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de... | concealment device. If a hollow coin is suspected, it sometimes can be easily confirmed by weighing against a normal coin on a simple balance. However, more sophisticated hollow coins have had their weight adjusted to match an unaltered coin by including a ring of a dense metal such as lead inside the coin. Typically c... | 7,622 | zeroshot-train |
Jolly Toper [SEP] collection | Jolly Toper
The Jolly Toper is a 1629 oil painting by Judith Leyster in the collection of the Rijksmuseum that is on long term loan to the Frans Hals Museum since 1959. It was acquired by the museum as a painting by Frans Hals and was attributed to Leyster by the researcher Juliane Harms in 1927.
Provenance.
The painti... | viewer. A medallion dangles from his neck chain, which Hofstede de Groot claimed was a likeness of Prince Maurice of Orange. Various experts have claimed the painting represents the sense of taste. In old Dutch inventories, the theme of a "merry drinker" or "jolly toper" occurs often, and this was probably not a portra... | 7,623 | zeroshot-train |
Joseph's Tunic [SEP] collection | Joseph's Tunic
Joseph's Tunic is a 1630 painting by Diego Velázquez, now held in the museum of the Sacristía Mayor del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain). It was painted in the house of the Spanish ambassador in Rome and brought back to Spain with the painting "Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan".
See ... | Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (), sometimes referred to as Vulcan's Forge, is an oil painting by Diego de Velázquez completed after his first visit to Italy in 1629. Critics agree that the work should be dated to 1630, the same year as his companion painting "Joseph's Tunic". It appears th... | 7,624 | zeroshot-train |
Joshua Roll [SEP] collection | Joshua Roll
The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance, believed to have been created by artists of the Imperial workshops in Constantinople, and now in the Vatican Library.
Form and content.
The Roll is in the form of a continuous... | of Camouflage" Prooftexts 10, 1990 pp. 469–491
- Adam Kirsch:Opening Up the Great Human Emotions:A New Collection of Poetry from an Israeli Master of Metaphor:Forwards,5 May 2000
- Jonathan Wilson: The God of Small Things, New York Times Book Review,12.10.2000
- Joshua Cohen; "The Poet Who Invented Himself", Forward.co... | 7,625 | zeroshot-train |
Kells Crozier [SEP] collection | Kells Crozier
The Kells Crozier or "British Museum Crozier" is a mediaeval Irish bishop's staff that has been part of the British Museum's collection since 1859. This rare object, one of only four extant complete examples known from Ireland, mysteriously appeared in London in 1850, before being acquired by the museum.
... | and the old Irish language: "ordo conduilis ocius do mel finnen", which, roughly translated, asks supplicants to pray for Cúduilig and Maelfinnén who were involved in its refurbishment. Scholars have identified these names with individuals who were connected with the important Irish monastic settlement at Kells, County... | 7,626 | zeroshot-train |
L'Atelier Rouge [SEP] collection | L'Atelier Rouge
L'Atelier Rouge, also known as The Red Studio, is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1911, in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
In 2004, "L'Atelier Rouge" came in at No. 5 in a poll of 500 art experts voting for the most influential of all works of modern art, along with works by ... | novel", Edilivre, 2012
- Les Hurleuses, "short-story", Je Suis Un Vieux Peau-Rouge Qui Ne Marchera Jamais Dans Une File Indienne, L'Atelier d'Écriture, 2012
- Sous Terre, "short-story", Collection Maurice, Immedia, 2012
- Fantômes, "short-story collection",(preface by Ananda Devi), L'Atelier d'Écriture, 2013
- Orgasmes... | 7,627 | zeroshot-train |
La Gare de Perpignan [SEP] collection | La Gare de Perpignan
La Gare de Perpignan ("Perpignan Train Station") is a 1965 large-scale oil on canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, on display in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
The Perpignan railway station held special significance for Dalí, who had proclaimed it to be the "Center of the Univers... | Gare de Perpignan
Perpignan is the railway station serving the city of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, for whom the place held special significance, having proclaimed it to be the "Centre of the Universe" after exper... | 7,628 | zeroshot-train |
La Hermana del Hombre Bóveda [SEP] collection | La Hermana del Hombre Bóveda
La Hermana del Hombre Bóveda is a public artwork by Spanish artist Pablo Serrano, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The artwork is an abstract bronze piece which tops a granite fountain.
Description.
"La Hermana del Hombre Bóveda"... | of the fountain. The bronze element itself weighs approximately 450 lbs.
Description Identifying marks.
The artwork is signed at the bottom proper left edge “Serrano”.
Historical information.
"La Hermana del Hombre Bóveda" was hollow cast in a multi-part mold in Madrid in 1963.
Historical information Location history.
... | 7,629 | zeroshot-train |
Lady Seated at a Virginal [SEP] collection | Lady Seated at a Virginal
Lady Seated at a Virginal, also known as Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, is a genre painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670–72 and now in the National Gallery, London.
"Lady Seated at a Virginal".
Another painting, probably also by Johannes Vermeer known as "A Young W... | or unidentified.
Art collection Jan Vermeer Identified works.
- "A Girl Asleep"
- "Officer and Laughing Girl"
- "The Little Street"
- "Woman Holding a Balance"
- "The Milkmaid"
- "View of Delft"
- "The Lacemaker"
- "Woman with a Pearl Necklace"
- "A Lady Writing a Letter"
- "Lady Standing at a Virginal" or "Lady Seated... | 7,630 | zeroshot-train |
Lady Standing at a Virginal [SEP] collection | Lady Standing at a Virginal
Lady Standing at a Virginal is a genre painting created by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670–1672, now in the National Gallery, London.
Description.
The oil painting depicts a richly dressed woman playing a virginal in a home with a tiled floor, paintings on the wall and some o... | or unidentified.
Art collection Jan Vermeer Identified works.
- "A Girl Asleep"
- "Officer and Laughing Girl"
- "The Little Street"
- "Woman Holding a Balance"
- "The Milkmaid"
- "View of Delft"
- "The Lacemaker"
- "Woman with a Pearl Necklace"
- "A Lady Writing a Letter"
- "Lady Standing at a Virginal" or "Lady Seated... | 7,631 | zeroshot-train |
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid [SEP] collection | Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed in 1670–1671 and held in the National Gallery of Ireland. The work shows a middle-class woman attended by a housemaid who is presumably acting as messenger and go-between for the lady an... | Martin Cahill's associate Martin Foley. Two paintings, Gainsborough's "Madame Bacelli" and Vermeer's "Lady writing a Letter with her Maid", the latter probably the most valuable painting of the collection, were stolen twice across the thefts, although each was subsequently recovered (the latter in 1993, the same year a... | 7,632 | zeroshot-train |
Lady and her Cook [SEP] collection | Lady and her Cook
Lady and her Cook (1660) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Hermitage Museum.
This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "41. LADY AND HER COOK. Sm. Su... | World War II. A was added in 1885 for the very important family art collection. The house was damaged by bombing in the Second World War and the 4th baronet moved to Jersey with 30 paintings from the collection.
The first Lady Cook, the American suffragist Tennessee Claflin, was mistress of Doughty House from 1885 unti... | 7,633 | zeroshot-train |
Lady of Ibiza [SEP] collection | Lady of Ibiza
The Lady of Ibiza is a ceramic figure, 47 cm tall, that dates from the third century BC. It is on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid.
The figure was found in the necropolis of Puig des Molins on the island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean. It was made using a mold and has a cavi... | consequence, it was closed and Palau was arrested and transported to the island of Ibiza.
Discalced Carmelite friar Return to Spain Ibiza.
Palau remained banished to that island for six years. He found an islet, a towering rock, El Vedra, near Ibiza and, needing solitude, he used to retire and pray there, seeking God's... | 7,634 | zeroshot-train |
Landscape near Arles [SEP] collection | Landscape near Arles
Landscape near Arles is an 1888 oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. It depicts a rural scene in Provence.
Description.
"Landscape near Arles" depicts a very typical scene from that area: the farmhouse is a traditi... | almost in a sacred manner. Early the following year he painted another smaller group of orchards, including "View of Arles, Flowering Orchards". Van Gogh was enthralled by the landscape and vegetation of the south of France, and often visited the farm gardens near Arles. In the vivid light of the Mediterranean climate ... | 7,635 | zeroshot-train |
Landscape with Philemon and Baucis [SEP] collection | Landscape with Philemon and Baucis
Landscape with Philemon and Baucis is a 1620 painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. The painting is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is centred on the myth of Baucis and Philemon.
Bibliography.
- Hermann Bauer: "El Barroco en los Países Bajos, en Los ma... | "Philemon and Baucis" in The Man with Night Sweats.
- Barbey D'Aurevilly describes a couple as Philemon and Baucis in his short story "Happiness in Crime" from the collection Les Diaboliques.
- The narrator in Max Frisch's 1964 novel Gantenbein refers to the main characters as Baucis and Philemon for a whole chapter.
-... | 7,636 | zeroshot-train |
Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid [SEP] collection | Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid
Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid, or The Enchanted Castle, 1664, is a painting, oil on canvas, by Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery, London. It was commissioned by Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, a Roman aristocrat. Its subject is taken from "The Golden A... | "Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid", and other works by modern artists as well as old masters, was largely dispersed and sold after her death.
Notable paintings in her collection were:
References.
- "Catalogue of porcelain, furniture and other works of art in the collection of Lady Wantage &c." W.H. Fa... | 7,637 | zeroshot-train |
Landscape, Branchville [SEP] collection | Cincinnati Art Museum), have been further distilled, and may have been painted after the oil.
Provenance.
Ownership of the painting went from Twachtman to Weir, who once told an art collector "I would sooner lose my right arm than sell one of Johnnie Twachtman's paintings!" By 1957 it was in the possession of Twachtman... | Landscape, Branchville
Landscape, Branchville (also Branchville Lane or Branchville) is an oil on canvas painting by John Henry Twachtman. Painted c. 1888, it is Twachtman's largest known work, and was painted in front of the home of his friend J. Alden Weir.
Background.
Close friends, Twachtman and Weir were members ... | 7,638 | zeroshot-train |
Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius [SEP] collection | Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius is an 1844 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. A preliminary sketch of the painting that was given to Delacroix's student Louis de Planet is also kept in the museum.
Description an... | Palais, Paris)
- "The Hammock"
- Honoré Daumier – "Les bas bleus" ("Bluestockings", series of lithographs)
- Eugène Delacroix – "Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius"
- Théodore de Gudin – ""
- Joseph Patrick Haverty – ""
- Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
- Eleuterio Pagliano – "İ... | 7,639 | zeroshot-train |
Le Bateau [SEP] collection | Le Bateau
Le Bateau ("The Boat") is a paper-cut from 1953 by Henri Matisse. The picture is composed from pieces of paper cut out of sheets painted with gouache, and was created during the last years of Matisse's life.
History.
"Le Bateau" caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hun... | en robe bleue rêvant". Private collection
- "Chemin au bord du lac de Nantua", Galerie Gary-Roche
- "Deux lavanderies sous les bouleaux", Van Ham Fine Art Auctions (Van Ham Kunstauktionen)
- "La Gardienne de Troupeau", Frances Aronson Fine Art, LLC
- "Le Loir et la Flêche", Stoppenbach & Delestre
- "Le Pêcheur et le Ba... | 7,640 | zeroshot-train |
Le Fumeur [SEP] collection | Au Salon des Indépendants, Les chefs-d'œuvre modernes"), 13 March 1914, for the occasion of the exhibition. In July 1914 the painting was exhibited in Berlin at Herwarth Walden’s Galerie Der Sturm, with works by Albert Gleizes, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon.
"Le Fumeur", titled "Man with Pipe" and dated c. ... | Le Fumeur
Le Fumeur (en. "The Smoker"), or Man with Pipe, is a Cubist painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. It has been suggested that the sitter depicted in the painting represents either Guillaume Apollinaire or Max Jacob. The work was exhibited in the spring of 1914 at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, Cham... | 7,641 | zeroshot-train |
Le Rifain assis [SEP] collection | Le Rifain assis
Le Rifain assis (Seated Riffian), December 1912, oil on canvas, is a painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of the Barnes Foundation, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | - "L'Atelier Rouge" (1911)
- "The Conversation" (1908–1912)
- "Zorah on the Terrace" (1912)
- "Le Rifain assis" (1912)
- "Window at Tangier" (1912)
- "Le rideau jaune (the yellow curtain)" (1915)
- "The Window" (1916), Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
- "The Painter and His Model" (1916–17)
- "The Windshield, On the... | 7,642 | zeroshot-train |
Liber Censuum [SEP] collection | preceded it, and it includes empty spaces for anticipated updating. The intent was to allow future "camerarii" to add future entries "until the end of the world". The original version of the "Liber Censuum" was identified by Paul Fabre in the Vatican Library ("ms Vat. Lat." 8486), with its blank spaces having been exha... | 14-18).
The dating of the "Liber Censuum" to 1192 comports with the date given in the work's prologue, although this date may only be accurate for the record of taxes owed to the Holy See. For example, the "Vita Gregorii IX" was inserted into the codex of the "Liber Censuum" between 1254 and 1265, likely during the ten... | 7,643 | zeroshot-train |
Life Underground [SEP] collection | Life Underground
Life Underground (2001) is a permanent public artwork created by American sculptor Tom Otterness for the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue station () of the New York City Subway. It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Arts for Transit program for US$200,000 — one percent of the st... | Tehran. The authorities ban her theater work and, like so many young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living withou... | 7,644 | zeroshot-train |
Lindisfarne Gospels [SEP] collection | Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715-720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. The manuscript is one of the fine... | Echternach Gospels
The Echternach Gospels (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 9389) were produced, presumably, at Lindisfarne Abbey in Northumbria around the year 690. This location was very significant for the production of Insular manuscripts, such as the Durham Gospels (ms. A.II.17) and the Lindisfarne Gospels (ms. Cotton Ner... | 7,645 | zeroshot-train |
Llais Y Wlad [SEP] collection | Llais Y Wlad
Llais Y Wlad (established in 1874) was a weekly Welsh and English newspaper with a conservative editorial point-of-view. It contained local and national news and information.
Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 219 issues of the Llais Y Wlad (1874-1884) from the newspaper holdings of the National Library... | - "Y Gwladgarwr"
- "Y Gwyliedydd"
- "Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph"
- "Holyhead and Anglesey Mail"
- "Illustrated Usk Observer"
- "The Leader"
- "Llais Y Wlad"
- "Y Llan"
- "Llanelli Herald"
- "Llanelli Star"
- "Llangollen Advertiser"
- "Llien Gwyn"
- "Merthyr Express"
- "Merthyr Pioneer"
- "The Merthyr Teleg... | 7,646 | zeroshot-train |
Llanbeblig Book of Hours [SEP] collection | Llanbeblig Book of Hours
The Llanbeblig Book of Hours is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 17520A) that dates from the close of the fourteenth century. Entries in the Calendar link the Llanbeblig Hours to Wales and more specifically the dedication of the church of Saint Peblig, which is... | in 1916. The most notable among them is the 17th century collection of Welsh poetry, "Llyuyr Hir Llywarch Reynolds".
- The Book of Llandaff (NLW MS 17110E), also known as "Liber Landavensis", is an ecclesiastical manuscript written between 1120 and 1140.
- The Llanbeblig Book of Hours (NLW MS 17520A) is a small manuscr... | 7,647 | zeroshot-train |
Llangollen Advertiser [SEP] collection | Llangollen Advertiser
The Llangollen Advertiser, Denbighshire, Merionethshire and North Wales Journal was a weekly English-language newspaper that circulated in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and North Wales. It was first published on November 2, 1860.
Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 2,311 issues of the Llangollen... | industry, both spinning and weaving, was important in the area for centuries. Several factories were later built along the banks of the River Dee, where both wool and cotton were processed. The water mill opposite Llangollen railway station is over 600 years old, and was originally used to grind flour for local farmers... | 7,648 | zeroshot-train |
Luttrell Psalter [SEP] collection | Luttrell Psalter
The Luttrell Psalter (British Library, Additional Manuscript 42130) is an illuminated psalter commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276–1345), lord of the manor of Irnham in Lincolnshire, written and illustrated on parchment "circa" 1320–1340 in England by anonymous scribes and artists.
Along with th... | the colophon of the psalter. The purpose of the manuscript was to help with the provisions for his will, in which Luttrell requested twenty chaplains to recite masses for a five-year period after his death (believed to speed the soul's passage through Purgatory) and clerks to recite the Psalms, and other activities for... | 7,649 | zeroshot-train |
Madame Moitessier [SEP] collection | Portrait of Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier is a portrait of Marie-Clotilde-Inès Moitessier (née de Foucauld) begun in 1844 and completed in 1856 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The portrait, which depicts Madame Moitessier seated, is now in the National Gallery in London. "Madame Moitessier" is also the title of... | ("modesty") in the Vatican collection. Another trick that Ingres used was to paint the fabrics and details in the portraits with extreme precision and accuracy, but to idealize the face. The eye of the viewer would perceive the fabrics as realistic and would assume the face was equally true. His portraits of women rang... | 7,650 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna Litta [SEP] collection | Madonna Litta
The Madonna Litta is a late 15th-century painting, traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. It depicts the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ child, a devotional subject known as the "Madonna lactans". The figures are set in a dark interior with two arche... | the Pavilion Hall in the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage in 1851–1858.
Until the 1920s, the museum's entrance was under the portico supported by five-metre high atlantes of grey Serdobol granite from Finland in the middle of the southern facade of the New Hermitage building.
In 1861, the Hermitage purchased fr... | 7,651 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna del Bordone [SEP] collection | Madonna del Bordone
The Madonna del Bordone (‘The Madonna of the pilgrim's staff’) is a panel painting by the Italian painter Coppo di Marcovaldo, in the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Siena, Italy.
Signed and dated 1261, the work is the only certain attribution to the Florentine painter. It was painted after he h... | The composition and style employed in the rendering of clothing, as seen in bulky and stiffly pleated cloth in Madonna del Bordone, is reminiscent of Romanesque figure sculptures.
Attributed works.
Although the Madonna del Bordone is Coppo’s only surviving work today, there are many other works attributed to the artist... | 7,652 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna della seggiola [SEP] collection | Madonna della seggiola
The Madonna della seggiola or Madonna della sedia is a Madonna painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael, dating to c. 1513-1514 and housed in the Palazzo Pitti collection in Florence. It depicts Mary embracing the child Christ, while the young John the Baptist devoutly watches.
Painted ... | ) by Raphael
- Madonna of the Rose Bower by Stefan Lochner
- Madonna of the Small Trees by Giovanni Bellini
- Madonna of the Stairs a relief sculpture by Michelangelo
- Madonna of Veveri
- Madonna del Bordone by Coppo di Marcovaldo
- Madonna del Padiglione (Botticelli) also known as Madonna and Child with Three Angels ... | 7,653 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna of the Candelabra [SEP] collection | Madonna of the Candelabra
The Madonna of the Candelabra is a Madonna painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael, dating to about 1513 and is in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Painted during his Roman period, this tondo Madonna of the Virgin and Child employs a rare motif of flanking can... | .
Henry Walters envisaged a museum that would fulfill an educational role within the community, but initially made modest additions to his father's collection. In 1897 his purchase of a 15th-century Koran, originally thought to be Persian, but now regarded as Indian, may have initiated the manuscript collection.
In 190... | 7,654 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna of the Stairs [SEP] collection | Madonna of the Stairs
The Madonna of the Stairs (or Madonna of the Steps) is a relief sculpture by Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence. It was sculpted around 1490, when Michelangelo was about fifteen. This and the "Battle of the Centaurs" were Michelangelo's first two sculptures. The first reference to the "... | Madonna of the Stairs (Correggio)
The Madonna of the Stairs ("Madonna della Scala") is a fresco fragment (196 by 141 cm) by Correggio, dating to around 1522-1523 and now in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma.
History.
It was originally part of a fresco on the internal facade of the east gate of Parma, known as the San Mic... | 7,655 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna with Child Enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian [SEP] collection | Madonna with Child Enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian
Madonna with Child Enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino, executed in 1493, and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
History.
The work was commissioned by Corne... | - Madonna and Child Kissing by Quentin Matsys
- Madonna and Child Playing with the Veil by Jan Gossaert
- Madonna and Child with an Angel (Botticelli) by Sandro Botticelli
- Madonna and Child with the Book by Raphael
- Madonna with Child Enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian by Pietro Perugino
- The M... | 7,656 | zeroshot-train |
Madonna with Writing Child and St. Jerome [SEP] collection | Madonna and Child with St Jerome
The Madonna and Child with St Jerome is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio, painted around 1481 and housed in the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, Germany.
Description.
The painting shows an infrequent composition, with the Virgin holding the Child who writes on a book, ... | the works in the Borghese collection. Three paintings by Caravaggio ("Madonna and Child with St. Anne - Dei Palafrenieri", "David with the Head of Goliath", "Saint Jerome Writing") appear and disappear behind the surfaces of large mirrors framed in black Murano glass. The figures are animated to appear as though posing... | 7,657 | zeroshot-train |
Malle Babbe [SEP] collection | Malle Babbe
Malle Babbe is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted between 1633 and 1635 and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The painting has also been titled as "Hille Bobbe" or the "Witch of Haarlem". It was traditionally interpreted as a tronie, or genre painting in a portrait format, depic... | , Coclers returned to Liège where he died in 1817.
Works.
Works Paintings.
- Portrait of Jan Bernd Bicker, 1776 (Amsterdam Museum)
- Mother and child, 1794 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
- Two portraits of men in harnesses (Bonnefantenmuseum)
- Two portraits of Jacob Hendrik van Suchtelen (Private Collection)
Works Engravings... | 7,658 | zeroshot-train |
Man in a Hammock [SEP] collection | Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Description.
"Man in a Hammock" is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 130 by 155.5 cm (51.2 x 61.2 inches) signed and dated "Alb Gleizes 13", lower left. Painted in 1913, the work "presents an interesting synthesis of back and forth motion," writes art historian Daniel Robbin... | . p. 405); and Albert Gleizes, "L'Épopée", Le Rouge et le Noir, October 1929, p. 81. Stylistically Gleizes' painting exemplifies the principle of mobile perspective laid out in "Du "Cubisme"", written by himself and French painter Jean Metzinger. Evidence suggests that the man reclining in the hammock is indeed Jean Me... | 7,659 | zeroshot-train |
Man on a Balcony [SEP] collection | occasion of the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, wrote disparagingly of 'pallid' cubes with reference to the paintings of Metzinger, Gleizes, Le Fauconnier, Léger and Delaunay.
On 3 December 1912 the polemic reached the Chambre des députés and was debated at the Assemblée Nationale in Paris.
- Albert Gleizes, exhibited "l'... | Metzinger a major treatise titled "Du "Cubisme"" (the first and only manifesto on Cubism). "Man on a Balcony" was purchased at the 1913 Armory show by the lawyer, author, art critic, private art collector, and American proponent of Cubism Arthur Jerome Eddy for $540. Gleizes' "Man on a Balcony" was the frontispiece of ... | 7,660 | zeroshot-train |
Manchester Madonna [SEP] collection | Manchester Madonna
The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (c. 1497), also known as The Manchester Madonna, is an unfinished painting attributed to Michelangelo in the National Gallery, London. It is one of three surviving panel paintings attributed to the artist and is dated to his first period in Rome. The pain... | 2016 – 29 May, "Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Curated by Martin Parr," Manchester Art Gallery (GB)
- 2017: 20 May – 20 Aug, "Spring Tide: Van Zoetendaal & The Collection", Netherlands Photo Museum (NL)
- 2017: 20 May – 3 Sep, "Spring Tide: Van Zoetendaal & The Collection", Ne... | 7,661 | zeroshot-train |
Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen [SEP] collection | Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen
Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1622 and now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The couple has been identified as Isaac Massa and his bride Beatrix van der Laen.
Painting.... | 1622 in art
Events from the year 1622 in art.
Events.
- April – Diego Velázquez moves from Seville to Madrid.
Paintings.
- Artemisia Gentileschi – "Portrait of a Condottiero"
- Guercino – "Et in Arcadia ego"
- Frans Hals – "Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen"
- Gerard van Honthorst – ""
- Pieter ... | 7,662 | zeroshot-train |
Mars and Rhea Silvia [SEP] collection | Mars and Rhea Silvia
Mars and Rhea Silvia is a 1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna. It shows Mars's rape of Rhea Silvia, which resulted in the birth of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome. | .
Despite Livy's euhemerist and realist deflation of this myth, it is clear that the story of her seduction by Mars continued to be widely accepted. This is demonstrated by the recurring theme of Mars discovering Rhea Silvia in Roman arts: in bas-relief on the Casali Altar (Vatican Museums), in engraved couched glass o... | 7,663 | zeroshot-train |
Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand [SEP] collection | Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1508 and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria. It is signed on a cartouche which hangs from the artist's self-portrait in the center, saying "Iste fatiebat Ano Domini 1508 Albertus Dürer Ale... | - Charles Victor Tillot (1825–1895), 1 painting : "Still-Life with Flowers", Private collection (url)
- Simone del Tintore (1630–1708), 3 paintings : "Still-Life of Vegetables", Private collection (url)
- Tintoretto (1518–1594), 278 paintings : "The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (fragment)", Gallerie dell'Accademia, Ve... | 7,664 | zeroshot-train |
Meagre Company [SEP] collection | Meagre Company
The Meagre Company, or The company of Captain Reinier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, refers to the only militia group portrait, or "schutterstuk", painted by Frans Hals outside of Haarlem, and today is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum, where it is con... | clippings and office files, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Collection 1959 (accessed Aug 29, 2008).
- "Mr. Philadelphia," "Time Magazine", Sep 19, 1949 (accessed Aug 29, 2008).
- CSS Industries, Inc. company history (accessed Aug 29, 2008)
- New York Stock Exchange profile (ac... | 7,665 | zeroshot-train |
Mega-Gem [SEP] collection | was presented at the Chicago International Art Exposition where it was displayed on Navy Pier along Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, until 1994.
In October 1994 "Mega-Gem" was loaned to the Indianapolis Museum of Art for two years. It arrived on October 10, 1994, and was put on display in the southwest corner of Kra... | the rosettes were returned to the artist for repainting.
See also.
- "The Herron Arch 1"
- "Torso Fragment"
External links.
- "Mega-Gem" in the IMA Collection—Image is "Mega-Gem"'s former location on Navy Pier, Chicago
- John Torreano's NYU-Steinhardt Faculty Bio
- Flickr:IUPUI Collections Care and Management
- Image o... | 7,666 | zeroshot-train |
Melisende Psalter [SEP] collection | Melisende Psalter
The Melisende Psalter (London, British Library, Egerton MS 1139) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende. It is a notable example of Crusader art, which resulted from a merging of the artistic styles... | Melisende Psalter is an extraordinarily beautiful little book that survives today in the British Museum" - a gloriously decorated gift carefully and thoughtfully chosen. While only 21.6 centimeters tall and 14 centimeters wide, the Melisende Psalter was ornately and expensively adorned - originally having the entire fr... | 7,667 | zeroshot-train |
Memories of Prague [SEP] collection | Memories of Prague
Memories of Prague is a public artwork by American artist David Louis Rodgers, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.
Description.
This artwork is composed of two limestone elements, each being hand-carved by the artist. The upper element is a t... | Brazil, Sep 16 in London, England, Sep 18 in Paris, France, Sep 23 in Munich, Germany, Sep 25 in Madrid, Spain, Oct 18 in Bangalore, India, Oct 21 in Milan, Italy, Oct 24 in Prague, Czech, Oct 28 in Moscow, Russia, Nov 2 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Google Developer Day 2009: Jun 5 in Beijing, China, Jun 9 in Yokohama, Japan... | 7,668 | zeroshot-train |
Merahi metua no Tehamana [SEP] collection | Merahi metua no Tehamana
Merahi metua no Tehamana (English Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana) is an 1893 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting is a portrait of Paul Gauguin's native wife Teha'amana during his first visi... | certificate showing that Teha'amana died on 9 December 1918 in Mataiea from the Spanish flu epidemic that carried off a quarter of Tahiti's native population. She is buried in Mataiea, although her tombstone bears no indication of her relationship with Gauguin. A "circa" 1888 photograph of a young Tahitian girl by Char... | 7,669 | zeroshot-train |
Midvinterblot [SEP] collection | Midvinterblot
Midvinterblot (Swedish for "Midwinter sacrifice") is a painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson, created in 1915 for the hall of the central staircase in Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. It has been called Sweden's most controversial painting.
The painting depicts a legend from Norse mythology in which t... | Midvinterblot (disambiguation)
Midvinterblot is the 1915 painting by Carl Larsson
Midvinterblot may also refer to:
- Midvinterblots, ancient ceremony associated with Swedish "Jul" (Yule) tradition
- "Midvinterblot" (album), a 2006 album by Swedish band Unleashed | 7,670 | zeroshot-train |
Miraflores Altarpiece [SEP] collection | Miraflores Altarpiece
The Miraflores Altarpiece (or Triptych of the Virgin, or The Altar of Our Lady or the Mary Altarpiece) is a c. 1442-5 oil-on-oak wood panel altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin since 1850. The three panels are each 71 x 43 cm and show, ... | the period while director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The collection included a large selection of Flemish paintings, including Jan van Eyck's "Madonna in the Church", Rogier van der Weyden's "Miraflores Altarpiece" and "Altar of Saint John", and Hugo van der Goes' "Adoration of th... | 7,671 | zeroshot-train |
Mirth & Girth [SEP] collection | Mirth & Girth
Mirth & Girth is a portrait painting by School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) student David K. Nelson, Jr., depicting the recently deceased, popular African-American mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington wearing only a bra, G-string, garter belt and stockings. After a brief showing at a May 11, ... | Girth & Mirth
Girth & Mirth (G&M) is an organized network of social groups for a gay subculture based on positive attitudes towards larger bodies and fat fetishism. First formed in San Francisco in 1976, early chapters were established in Boston and New York. Girth & Mirth gatherings were predecessors of the Conver... | 7,672 | zeroshot-train |
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando [SEP] collection | Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is a painting by Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist artist, now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, England. It shows the acrobat Miss La La hanging on a rope by her teeth at the Cirque Fernando in Montmartre, Paris.
The painting wa... | from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on "Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando" (see index)
Bibliography.
- "Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando". Exh. cat. ed. by Linda Wolk-Simon, with Nancy Ireson and Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, The Morgan Library & Museum, Ne... | 7,673 | zeroshot-train |
Mistress and Maid [SEP] collection | Mistress and Maid
Mistress and Maid (c.1667) is a painting produced by Johannes Vermeer, now in the Frick Collection in New York City. The work of Johannes Vermeer, also known as Jan, is well known for many characteristics that are present in this painting. The use of yellow and blue, female models, and domestic scenes... | Hutchinson as a part of "The Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals" collection. The title was translated as "The Fire-Fairy". In the 1950s another translation of "The Malachite Casket" was made by Eve Manning The story was published as "The Dancing Fire Maid". It was included in James Riordan's collection of stories "... | 7,674 | zeroshot-train |
Monteleone chariot [SEP] collection | Monteleone chariot
The Monteleone chariot is an Etruscan chariot dated to c. 530 BC, considered one of the world's great archaeological finds. It was originally uncovered at Monteleone di Spoleto and is currently a star attraction in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Though about 300 a... | The Greek and Roman collection dates back to the founding of the museum—in fact, the museum's first accessioned object was a Roman sarcophagus, still currently on display. Though the collection naturally concentrates on items from ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, these historical regions represent a wide range of c... | 7,675 | zeroshot-train |
Monument with Standing Beast [SEP] collection | Monument with Standing Beast
Monument with Standing Beast is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn designed James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from Chicago City Hall to the South and diagonal across the street from the Daley Cen... | 2019: "Barbarian in Europe", MUCEM, Marseille, France, 24 April-2 September 2019
Notable works.
- "La Chiffonnière"
- "Monument with Standing Beast" (1984)
- "Monument au Fantôme"
Selected bibliography.
Selected bibliography Catalogue Raisonné.
- "Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet," Fascicule I-XXXVIII, Pauvert: P... | 7,676 | zeroshot-train |
Mother and Children [SEP] collection | Mother and Children
Mother and Children (also known as La Promenade) is an Impressionist painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that is housed in the Frick Collection. Although the painting is most commonly known as "Mother and Children", Renoir presented it with the title "La Promenade" in 1876. The painting is displayed i... | Manchurian Dream and Echoes in Chen Qi's Ink Paintings", Solo Exhibition, Museum of Mukden Palace, Shenyang, China
- 2011 July, "90 Years of Glory – Ink paintings and Calligraphies from Great Masters of Art", Group Exhibition, Yulin, China
- 2011 Sep, "Plein Air Oil Paintings and Portrait Ink Paintings of Master Chen Q... | 7,677 | zeroshot-train |
Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid [SEP] collection | Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid
Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid (1665-1668) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.
This painting was the second painting by Hooch documented by Hof... | The Lemon Table
The Lemon Table is the second collection of short stories written by Julian Barnes, and has the general theme of old age. It was first published in 2004 by Jonathan Cape.
Stories.
First publication in brackets
- "A Short History of Hairdressing" ("The New Yorker", 27 Sep 1997) - The story tells of three... | 7,678 | zeroshot-train |
Mountains and Clouds [SEP] collection | Mountains and Clouds
Mountains and Clouds is a sculpture by Alexander Calder located in the Hart Senate Office Building.
Background.
The Hart Senate Office Building, first occupied in 1982 and named for Michigan Senator Philip A. Hart, broke with tradition. Unlike its predecessors, the Hart Building boasted a contempor... | due to the larger collection of volcanoes in the Tharsis region.
One unique repeated weather phenomenon involving mountains is a spiral dust cloud that forms over Arsia Mons. The spiral dust cloud over Arsia Mons can tower above the volcano. Clouds are present around Arsia Mons throughout the Martian year, peaking in l... | 7,679 | zeroshot-train |
Mr and Mrs Andrews [SEP] collection | Mr and Mrs Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of the sitters until 1960 and was very little known before it appeared in an exhibition in Ipswich in 1927... | - Bert Wheeler as Albert 'Al' Bennett
- Dorothy Lee as Alice Cook
- Roscoe Ates as Mr. Wilson
- Robert McWade as Uncle George Bennett
- Sharon Lynn as Ella Mayer
- Hallam Cooley as Frank Andrews
- Florence Roberts as Mrs. Cook
- George Chandler as Cousin Ned
- Clifford Dempsey as Mr. Michael J. Cook
- Ruth Weston as Mi... | 7,680 | zeroshot-train |
Nativity at Night [SEP] collection | Nativity at Night
The Nativity at Night or Night Nativity is an Early Netherlandish painting of about 1490 by Geertgen tot Sint Jans in the National Gallery, London (NG 4081). It is a panel painting in oil on oak, measuring 34 × 25.3 cm., though it has been cut down in size on all four sides. The painting shows the Nat... | September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 11 - Eastern Orthodox Church Calendar - Sep. 13
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 30.
Feasts.
- Apodosis of t... | 7,681 | zeroshot-train |
Negro Life at the South [SEP] collection | Negro Life at the South
Negro Life at the South (1859) is a painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the private life of African-American slaves in Washington, DC. It was painted in Washington, D.C. and is now owned by the New York Public Library, on permanent loan to the New-York Historical Society. Jo... | Sep., 1974), pp. 309–322
- Alrutheus A. Taylor, "Negro in Tennessee 1865-1880" (Reprint Co, June 1, 1974)
- Alrutheus A. Taylor, "Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction" (Ams Press: June 1924)
- Alrutheus A. Taylor, "The Negro In The Reconstruction Of Virginia" (Washington, DC: The Association for the Study ... | 7,682 | zeroshot-train |
Nimrud lens [SEP] collection | lens is on display in the British Museum.
Interpretation.
The function of the lens is not clear, with some authors suggesting that it was used as an optical lens and others suggesting a decorative function.
Assyrian craftsmen made intricate engravings and could have used a magnifying lens in their work. The discoverer ... | Nimrud lens
The Nimrud lens, also called Layard lens, is a 3000-year-old piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed in 1850 by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq. It may have been used as a magnifying glass, or as a burning-glass to start fires by concentrating sunlight, or it may ... | 7,683 | zeroshot-train |
Noleby Runestone [SEP] collection | in Scandinavia that uses the star rune form for [j] rather than for /a/ or /h/. The name Hakoþuz in the last line of the inscription is believed to mean "crooked one," although other interpretations have been suggested.
The Noleby Runestone is now located in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.
See ... | Noleby Runestone
The Noleby Runestone, which is also known as the Fyrunga Runestone or Vg 63 for its Rundata catalog listing, is a runestone in Proto-Norse which is engraved with the Elder Futhark. It was discovered in 1894 at the farm of Stora Noleby in Västergötland, Sweden.
Description.
The Noleby Runestone was date... | 7,684 | zeroshot-train |
Numbers 1-0 [SEP] collection | Numbers 1-0
Numbers 1-0 is a public artwork by the American artist Robert Indiana, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. This series of sculptures is composed of 10 brightly painted numerical digits, each made of aluminum and set on its own base. Their constructi... | , the closed intervals [0, 1] and [1, 2] are almost disjoint, because their intersection is the finite set {1}. However, the unit interval [0, 1] and the set of rational numbers Q are not almost disjoint, because their intersection is infinite.
This definition extends to any collection of sets. A collection of sets is ... | 7,685 | zeroshot-train |
Ognissanti Madonna [SEP] collection | Ognissanti Madonna
Madonna Enthroned, also known as the Ognissanti Madonna, is a painting by the Italian late medieval artist Giotto di Bondone, housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.
The painting has a traditional Christian subject, representing the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child seated on her lap, with sa... | mostly gothic interior do not allow headroom for the virgin. Pächt describes the interior as a "throne room", which envelops her as if a "carrying case". Her monumental stature reflects a tradition reaching back to an Italo-Byzantine type – perhaps best known through Giotto's "Ognissanti Madonna" (c. 1310) – and emphas... | 7,686 | zeroshot-train |
Oi Yoi Yoi [SEP] collection | or Matisse, but admitted they were "probably subconsciously" important.
The painting was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1964. It was also exhibited in a retrospective exhibition of Hilton's work at the Serpentine Gallery in 1974, along with a second version of the same subject, "Dancing Wom... | Oi Yoi Yoi
Oi Yoi Yoi is a 1963 oil painting by British painter Roger Hilton. Perhaps Hilton's best-known work, it is a free composition depicting a naked white woman. The central figure is abstracted, with simple black outlines drawn in charcoal of a featureless face, breasts and pubic triangle, and upraised arms. All... | 7,687 | zeroshot-train |
Old Man with a Gold Chain [SEP] collection | Old Man with a Gold Chain
Old Man with a Gold Chain is a portrait by Rembrandt, painted around 1631 and now in the Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote; "675. HARMEN GERRITSZ VAN RIJN. Half-length, without hands ; almost life size. He is inclined to the left, bu... | June 17, 1913, No. 60 (516,000 francs, S. de Ricci). In the possession of Julius Böhler, Munich. In the possession of Reinhardt, New York. In a private collection, Chicago."
References.
- Halffiguur van een man met halsberg en gevederde baret, ca. 1631 in the RKD
External links.
- Artic.edu: "Old Man with a Gold Chain"... | 7,688 | zeroshot-train |
Paintings from Santa Maria in Taüll [SEP] collection | Paintings from Santa Maria in Taüll
The Paintings from Santa Maria in Taüll are a set of frescos conserved at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona.
The Maria de Taüll ensemble is one of the most complete series of Romanesque pictures kept in the Museum. Originally, the church interior was totally decorat... | paintings in the church is later, more rustic and has less technical resources. He has been called the Master of the Last Judgement and is connected with the paintings of the apsidiole of Sant Climent
in Taüll.
See also.
- Altar frontal from Santa Maria in Taüll | 7,689 | zeroshot-train |
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini [SEP] collection | Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini is a watercolour by British artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted in 1855 and now in Tate Britain.
History.
Rossetti's real name was Charles Gabriel Dante Rossetti, but his admiration for the great Florentine poet led him to change it to Dante Gabrie... | (1819;Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France)
- Ary Scheffer, "Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil", oil on canvas (1835; Wallace Collection, London; an 1855 version is in the Louvre, Paris), and there are other versions.
- Gustave Doré, "Francesca da Rimini", several illustrations to Da... | 7,690 | zeroshot-train |
Peasant with a Wheelbarrow [SEP] collection | Peasant with a Wheelbarrow
Peasant with a Wheelbarrow is an oil painting by French artist Jean-François Millet, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. Begun in 1848 but not finished until Millet found a buyer in 1852, it depicts a peasant man pushing a wheelbarrow.
Description.
In... | classically trained Millet was making a powerful political statement with this image, which raised a humble rural scene to the same level as a history painting. This intimate portrait reveals Millet's poetic side. Soon, he would transition to epic canvases for the Salon.
Historical information Acquisition.
"Peasant wit... | 7,691 | zeroshot-train |
Peniarth 164 [SEP] collection | Chirk (Peniarth 29), and remained so until after 1869. Manuscript H includes the transcript of the Black Book of Chirk that was partially copied by John Jones in Llanstephan 121. Llanstephan 121 also includes sections of the Ancient Laws from Peniarth 278, which is transcription of the Black Book of Chirk in the hand o... | c.1225–75) of parts of the Four Branches of the "Mabinogi".
- Peniarth 20
- History of the Kings (Peniarth 23C)
- Peniarth 28
- Peniarth 32
- Peniarth 49
- Peniarth 51
- Peniarth 53
- Peniarth 109
- Peniarth 164
- Peniarth 259B
- Peniarth 481
- Vaux Passional (Peniarth 482D)
See also.
A list of Welsh Law manuscripts
Bi... | 7,692 | zeroshot-train |
Peniarth 481 [SEP] collection | Peniarth 481
Peniarth 481D is a late 15th-century illuminated manuscript in its original binding that is held at the National Library of Wales. It is also known as "The Battles of Alexander the Great", a reference to the twenty-six miniatures that accompany the Latin text . The volume also contains "Disticha Catonis", ... | c.1225–75) of parts of the Four Branches of the "Mabinogi".
- Peniarth 20
- History of the Kings (Peniarth 23C)
- Peniarth 28
- Peniarth 32
- Peniarth 49
- Peniarth 51
- Peniarth 53
- Peniarth 109
- Peniarth 164
- Peniarth 259B
- Peniarth 481
- Vaux Passional (Peniarth 482D)
See also.
A list of Welsh Law manuscripts
Bi... | 7,693 | zeroshot-train |
Peniarth 6 [SEP] collection | Peniarth 6
Peniarth 6 is a medieval Welsh manuscript. It is part of the collection of Peniarth Manuscripts, named for Peniarth Mansion in Meirionnydd, south Gwynedd, where they were kept for many years.
Among the texts are parts of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the oldest text existing. It dates to the period circ... | collections of the National Library, with the majority being in the Peniarth Collection (see the list of Welsh Law manuscripts).
- "Llyfr Du'r Waun" (mid-13th century), also known as the Black Book of Chirk, the earliest Welsh text of the laws of Hywel Dda (Peniarth MS 29).
- Peniarth 32 is a 15th-century volume of the... | 7,694 | zeroshot-train |
Pericopes of Henry II [SEP] collection | Pericopes of Henry II
The Pericopes of Henry II (; Munich, Bavarian State Library, Clm 4452) is a luxurious medieval illuminated manuscript made for Henry II, the last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor, made 1002 – 1012 AD. The manuscript, which is lavishly illuminated, is a product of the Liuthar circle of illuminators, who... | Salzburg Pericopes
The Salzburg Pericopes (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 15713) is a medieval Ottonian illuminated gospel pericopes made "c." 1020 at St. Peter's Monastery, Salzburg, during the reign of Henry II, the last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor. It was made for Hartwig von Ortenburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg.
... | 7,695 | zeroshot-train |
Perseus Freeing Andromeda [SEP] collection | Perseus Freeing Andromeda
Perseus Freeing Andromeda or Liberation of Andromeda is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, c. executed in 1510 or 1513. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.
The painting is mentioned in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari, who states that it was commissioned by... | Perseus Freeing Andromeda (Rubens)
Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, executed in 1622. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, Germany.
The painting belonged the M. Pasquier collection in Rouen, which was auctioned in 1755 in Paris. In the 18th century it entered the... | 7,696 | zeroshot-train |
Perugia Altarpiece [SEP] collection | Perugia Altarpiece
The Perugia Altarpiece (Italian: "Pala di Perugia") is a painting by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, housed in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria of Perugia, Italy.
History.
The painting was executed for the St. Nicholas Chapel in the Basilica of San Domenico, Perugia. In the ear... | 1967 - Perugia, altarpiece of panels containing 16 figures
- 1968 - "Girl with a Snail", cement
- 1969 - Our Standard, bronze
- 1970 - Figure in cement (Cojazzi private collection). Deposition from the Cross, terracotta. Copy of "George Washington" by Antonio Canova for North Carolina State Capitol. Annunciation, terra... | 7,697 | zeroshot-train |
Pieter Tjarck [SEP] collection | Pieter Tjarck
Pieter Tjarck is a portrait painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1638 and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Painting.
The painting shows a fashionably dressed gentleman leaning over the back of a chair holding a rose. This painting was documented by Ernst... | , wife of Pieter Tjarck. M. 78. Half-length, in a painted oval. She faces three- quarters left and looks at the spectator. Her left hand is at her bosom ; the right hand is not shown. She wears a white cap, a ruff, a black dress embroidered with white at the bosom, and lace wristbands. The colour of the face is very li... | 7,698 | zeroshot-train |
Pietà for Vittoria Colonna [SEP] collection | Pietà for Vittoria Colonna
The Pietà for Vittoria Colonna is a black chalk drawing on cardboard (28.9×18.9 cm) by Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated to about 1538–44 and kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
History.
Michelangelo became acquainted with Vittoria Colonna around 1538. Their lively friendship ... | attribution, but several sketches and copies by students and admirers of Michelangelo have been preserved.
Apart from a famous "Crucifixion", Michelangelo's most notable work for Vittoria Colonna is a "Pietà", of which a remarkable drawing is exhibited at Boston. It is not certain that this work was painted by Michelan... | 7,699 | zeroshot-train |
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