Joseph, Mary, and her newborn son, Jesus, have fled Bethlehem and are on the road to Egypt. They are escaping from King Herod, who wanted the child killed.
(Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence and Rome).[1] (Arthur J.
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108 works by French artist Paul Gauguin were shown in this exhibition, which brought together self-portraits, still lifes, and landscapes from every period of the artist’s career to explore Gauguin’s use of religious and mythological symbols. Oil paintings, pastels, prints, drawings, and sculptures from the collection of the National Gallery of Art and loans from public and private collections in Europe and the United States were included. The exhibition was organized by theme: Artist as Creator; Quest for Spirituality; Earthly Paradise/Paradise Lost; Re-creating the Past; Archetypal Females; and Religious Commonalities.
June Hargrove, professor of nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture, University
and shell gold over charcoal and graphite on paper; mounted to canvas, Gift of Professor
Safra Visiting Professor) discusses works in the National Gallery’s collection
Discover works by Benjamin West and learn about the artist
pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper, Gift of Professor
This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that raised him. A history of struggle may suggest the minor key, but Marsalis ultimately chose upbeat music to celebrate those who fought and made it work.Â
Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art Lisa Gail Collins is professor
Safra Visiting Professor) discusses works in the National Gallery’s collection
The first pictures of marshlands by Martin Johnson Heade featured the environs of Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, near the mouth of the Merrimack River. Perhaps attracted by John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetry that celebrated the local landscape or more likely drawn there by his acquaintance with Bishop Thomas March Clark of Newburyport, Heade discovered the area sometime around 1859.
Associated Names Wilmerding, John, Professor Exhibition History 2004 American
Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
states that the bust was bought in Italy during the 1840s by Lord Taunton from Professor
