Reflection by Hughie Lee-Smith https://www.nga.gov/artworks/195510-reflection
Visual Description A brown-skinned man stands on a beach among poles driven into
Visual Description A brown-skinned man stands on a beach among poles driven into
Visual Description A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal
Louis Vallée took his subject from Giovanni Battista Guarini’s late sixteenth-century tragicomedy Il Pastor Fido, a pastoral play that glorified arcadian life and had far-ranging effects on the art and literature of France, Flanders, and the Netherlands. Its extremely intricate plot focuses on the love between the faithful shepherd Mirtillo and the nymph Amarillis, who is betrothed to Silvio by paternal arrangement.
with a short slash across her chest reclines into the arms of an older, bearded man
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The skeleton represents Death and the man is the Miser.
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This sailor was one of the first Black figures at the center of a history painting. What can a close look tell us about Black life during colonial times?
Shark Black Bodies in the Middle Passage and Havana Harbor Just as the Black man
The engravings of Andrea Mantegna were the most influential prints produced in 15th-century Italy. Motifs from his creations appear in works by every major early Italian printmaker, and it was through Mantegna’s prints that Albrecht Dürer made his first acquaintance with the southern Renaissance.
The man on our left faces us and rides a scale-covered creature.
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American, born 1951 Explore Selected Works Artwork Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Fast Man