With one arm akimbo and a penetrating, forthright stare, this dashing young man with his wide-brimmed hat exudes confidence and strength. His erect stance as well as the crisp, angular folds of his black satin cloak heighten the impression that he was a man of purpose.
Notably, his manner of accenting the eyes in his drawings of children resembles that
Nevertheless, Both’s manner of painting differed from that of his colleagues in Rome
recently arrived immigrant slum dwellers and their dirty environments with all manner
Simone Martini depicts Saint Matthew holding a book, quill pen, and inkpot in the process of writing his Gospel. This panel, along with nine others of apostles, including three in the National Gallery of Art’s collection depicting Simon , James Major , and Thaddeus , were once part of the same altarpiece.
marriage that evolved to become the international style, a refined and courtly manner
colored glasses of Childe Hassam or Colin Campbell Cooper, or the matter-of-fact manner
Vienna) [fig2], a female nude seen from the rear is articulated in exactly the same manner
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, born in Leiden on July 15, 1606, was the son of a miller, Harmen Gerritsz van Rijn, and his wife, Neeltgen van Zuytbrouck. The youngest son of at least ten children, Rembrandt was not expected to carry on his father’s business.
1650s and early 1660s, stylistic trends had veered away from his deeply personal manner
One of Domenico Veneziano’s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445 for the Church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli, in Florence. The incident illustrated in this small panel from the base of the altarpiece is John’s act of exchanging his rich, worldly clothes for a rough, camel–hair coat.
Rather than showing the saint in the usual manner, as a mature, bearded hermit, Domenico
Saint Judas Thaddeus once decorated the predella of an altarpiece along with nine other small portraits of apostles, three of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art: Matthew , Simon , and James Major .
softness of the modeling displays most clearly Simone Martini’s refined pictorial manner
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural
