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canvas · Accession ID 1975.98.1 Artwork Kenneth Noland, Poster Variation, hand-colored
Discover works by Kenneth Noland and learn about the artist
canvas · Accession ID 1975.98.1 Artwork Kenneth Noland, Poster Variation, hand-colored
In contrast to the man with whom she shares this outdoor scene, the female figure is incongruously naked. Her features seem generalized.
The man rests one hand on her shoulder and holds up a mirror with the other.
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,
The Beast holds up a flaming sword with the right hand, to our left, and a flaming
Adriaen de Vries won international fame for active bronze figures that reflect both his study of nature and his training in Florence with Giovanni Bologna, the greatest 16th-century sculptor after Michelangelo. De Vries’s complicated poses continued the style known as mannerism, but he also saw ancient bronze sculpture as a model to surpass.
Empire, her head is encircled with a ring of laurel leaves, and she lifts her left hand
She holds his left hand with her left hand, both to our right, and her other arm
child stands with a delicate scepter tucked into one elbow as he holds up his other hand
In the tradition of his Flemish predecessors, Memling’s painting contains a wealth of religious meaning; it is filled with symbols which explain the importance of Christ’s mission on earth.
She holds an open book with her left hand, on our right, and supports the sitting
In Kalf’s own hand the rind has a three-dimensional presence as it twists and turns
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