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.
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
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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drypoint on laid paper · Accession ID 1990.11.1 Artwork Ferdinand Bol, An Old Man
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Explore Selected Works Artwork German 16th century (Augsburg), Portrait of a Man
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The skeleton represents Death and the man is the Miser.
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illustrations · Accession ID 2006.155.13 Artwork Albert Marquet, Portrait of a Bearded Man
panel · Accession ID 1952.5.8.combined Artwork Hans Memling, Portrait of a Man
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American, born 1951 Explore Selected Works Artwork Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Fast Man
