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Accession ID 2023.145.3 Not on view Artwork Plus Tax: Shopping Bag Society, Rag 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.
Jacopo Tintoretto was, along with Titian and Paolo Veronese , one of the three giants of 16th-century Venetian painting. No one else came close to matching the sheer number of pictures he provided for Venice’s churches, confraternities, government buildings, and private palaces.
oil on canvas · Accession ID 1952.5.79 Artwork Jacopo Tintoretto, A Kneeling Man
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was the first to permanently record an image using light in 1837. His daguerreotype changed the way we consume images. Many innovations like stereographic photographs and tintypes would follow but it was George Eastman’s invention of the Kodak film camera in 1888 that made cameras widely available.
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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.
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Rembrandt Peale’s Washington before Yorktown –one of the few life-size portraits of George Washington on horseback and only the second such depiction by an American artist—is a heroic portrayal of the father of the United States. The three-week siege of Yorktown occurred in early autumn 1781, near the end of the Revolutionary War.
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paper · Accession ID 1991.190.1.h Artwork Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Man
