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Empire Triumphant over Avarice by Adriaen de Vries

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1287-empire-triumphant-over-avarice

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

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Portrait of a Woman Aged Sixty by Frans Hals

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/74-portrait-woman-aged-sixty

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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Twelve Events in a Dual Universe by Alfred Jensen

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/138468-twelve-events-dual-universe

During the 1960s and 1970s the fate and future of painting was a hotly contested subject on the New York art scene. It is especially telling, then, that Alfred Jensen’s paintings were acclaimed during this period by two of the very artists—Donald Judd and Allan Kaprow—who were otherwise leading the assault on painting in favor of new art forms such as minimal sculpture and assemblage.
On the one hand, the painting demonstrates Jensen’s longstanding exploration of color

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