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silver print · Accession ID 2023.176.3 Artwork Addison Scurlock, Portrait of a Man
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silver print · Accession ID 2023.176.3 Artwork Addison Scurlock, Portrait of a Man
Visual Description Shown from the knees up, an older man sits next to a black, curly-haired
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date 1823 · Accession ID 1980.62.66 Artwork Micah Williams, Portrait of a Man
This three-part altarpiece by the painter Andrea di Vanni reflects a growing concern among 14th-century artists to historicize the Biblical narrative. To accomplish this, Andrea endeavored to recreate, with the greatest possible accuracy, the events surrounding Christ’s Passion.
A halo encircles the bent head of the man on the middle cross, Jesus, who wears a
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.
On a dirt path across the front of the picture, an armored man is carried on a red
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oil on panel · Accession ID 1937.1.41 Artwork Hans Memling, Portrait of a Man
John Beale Bordley, a close friend of Charles Willson Peale, raised the funds in 1766 to send the young artist to London, where Peale trained under Benjamin West’s tutelage. In the stormy years before the American Revolution, Bordley was a Maryland planter, judge, and member of the Governor’s Council.
The man looks out with dark blue eyes under curved black brows.
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canvas · Accession ID 1989.3.1 Artwork Federico Barocci, Head of a Bearded Man
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The skeleton represents Death and the man is the Miser.
Visual Description A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal