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Beckmann 1921 Lithograph Accession ID 1945.5.38 Not on view Artwork Woman, Man
In the 19th century, families often welcomed clergy into their homes, particularly when churches could not afford to offer housing. Here, Richard Norris Brooke depicts a traditional pastoral visit.
A bespectacled, white-haired man sits to our left, wearing a black coat and suit.
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 81-87, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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Fascination with the life and times of William Shakespeare abounded in the Victorian world, especially in London, where American artist Edwin Austin Abbey settled permanently in 1883. The Bard’s writings provided lifelong inspiration for Abbey:
The man closest to us on the left is cut off by the edge of the painting.
Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A nearly nude, muscular man
Controls Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A light-skinned man
The Saint Luke and Saint Mark panels were part of a commission from Pope Pius V in 1569 to decorate the newly built Torre Pio (Pius Tower) in the Vatican. The project, for which Vasari was knighted by the pope, was finished in two years.
Controls Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A pale-skinned man
paper · Accession ID 1991.190.1.h Artwork Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Man
(“Lord, what is man, that you take knowledge of him?
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Artwork Charles-Paul-Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys, Head of a Man
