Light shading and faintly sketched lines on cream colored paper depict a woman in profile. She appears to be dancing, arching her back and casting a look above and behind her as she steps forward. Her ...
This hazy landscape painting verges on abstraction, as sketches of figures and objects are formed with quick brushstrokes and minimal detail, approximating limited night vision. A group of small café ...
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We see the head and shoulders of a woman in the extreme foreground at lower center left, standing among some large rocks. She has long straight dark hair and pronounced dark circles around her eyes as ...
After a ten-year sojourn in Spain, Starnina returned to his native Florence in 1401. Depicting the death (Tl41319) and assumption (1920.1) of the Virgin Mary, this image was the central portion of a ...
The clash between men and Amazons, a mythical tribe of female warriors from the exoticized “East,” was a common motif in Greek monumental and Roman funerary art. This version has no dominating hero or ...
At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...
Rodin deemed a head and arms to be superfluous to this sculpture; stripped of these, the torso and legs alone express the essential concept of movement. Rodin created many such fragments (that is, ...
The man looks directly and intensely at us, his face has strong rugged features, a closed mouth, and broad nose, his ears appear slightly uneven on his head. Van Gogh’s ink strokes are similar to his ...
This subject’s furrowed brow and close-cropped hair, rendered with simple chisel marks, place this portrait in the third century, a time of prolonged political upheaval, when Roman emperors were ...
The painting is constructed of loose, suggestive brushstrokes. Depicted from above, a small cottage is in the foreground to the right atop a grassy bluff overlooking the ocean. The pitched roof of the ...
Trained by his father, Cornelis de Heem belonged to three generations of artists who specialized in paintings of assembled fruits, flowers, and luxury objects. Here, De Heem depicts fruits and nuts ...