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Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice: Lives of the Bolognese Painters, Volume 9 | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/carlo-cesare-malvasias-felsina-pittrice-lives-bolognese-painters-volume-9

Celebrated by Malvasia as the creator and promoter of the new maniera moderna, Guido Reni (1575–1642) introduces the fourth age of painting: a period marked by an original and sometimes bold elaboration of the notion of artistic perfection developed by the Carracci and embodied more specifically by Ludovico’s “synthesis of styles.�
On the one hand, he cannot resist his infatuation with Guido’s work.

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The Fall of Man by Hendrick Goltzius

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/95659-fall-man

In about 1600, Hendrick Goltzius, who was famous across Europe for his extraordinary abilities as a draftsman and printmaker, turned his talents to painting. In 1616 he painted this magnificent image of Adam and Eve reclining in the Garden of Eden like mythological lovers.
elbow, which rests on a low, mossy rock, and he holds a small green fruit in that hand

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Portrait of a Woman Aged Sixty by Frans Hals

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The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than in the work of Frans Hals, who was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. This unidentified sitter—one of Hals’ most impressive portraits—was sixty years old when the painting was made, according to the artist’s inscription.
She holds a small brown leather book tooled with gold ornament in her right hand,

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