Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Return , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset. Cole drew on several sources, including Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott’s popular verses about warfare between the English and the Scots.
of Design, New York, 1838, no. 65, as The Return, Scenes Illustrative of Feudal Manners
varnish obscures the folds of the cloak and the definition of forms, and it hides the manner
; Pompadour apparently had no compunction about seeing herself depicted in this manner
This transcendent view down the Rhine River from the hillside vineyards near Oberwesel, Germany, is a masterpiece by one of the great icons of British art, J. M.W.
right to improve the composition, framing the sun-glazed view down the river in a manner
The artist would give the maximum amount of information in the clearest manner possible
Although his name occurs in documents for the first time in the years between 1346 and 1348, when he enrolled in the Arte dei Medici e Speziali (the Florentine guild to which painters also belonged),[1] Nardo, brother of the painters Andrea and Jacopo , was already considered one of the leading painters of his city by midcentury.[2] An artist whose paintings have been described as fragile, delicate, dreamy, or remote , characterized by a peculiar, “lyrical mood,�[3] Nardo must have been trained under the influence of such painters as Maso and Stefano. Of the few works by his hand cited in the documents, only the fragments of a cycle of frescoes in the Oratorio del Bigallo in Florence, commissioned in 1363, have survived, but it has been argued, probably correctly, that an image of the Madonna formerly in the Ufficio della Gabella dei Contratti, once signed and dated 1356, can be identified with the panel of the Madonna and Child with four saints now in the Brooklyn Museum in New York.[4] It is also certain that the painter made his will in May 1365 and that by the following year he was already reported dead.
structure reveal Nardo’s gradual assimilation of the more essential and severe manner
inspiration, he also began rendering distant landscapes in a broadly suggestive manner
have viewed this change primarily as a consequence of Lippo’s adjustment to the manner
the Dutch concern for orderliness and cleanliness, as well as their sympathetic manner
Reynolds sought to elevate British painting, including portraiture, to the lofty realms of classical expression. After traveling to Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Venice, Reynolds became the first president of the Royal Academy, which had been founded in 1768.
The pyramidal composition of the sitters, Lady Delmé’s encircling arms and quiet manner
