This tour offers vivid descriptions of specific works on view in the East Building. Though designed for people with vision loss, this tour is a useful tool for guided looking for all visitors.
An angel kneels on the bed behind the man.
Artists throughout the centuries, particularly the Dutch, have delighted in creating works that deceive a viewer into mistaking a painted image for reality itself. Illusionistic paintings are quite varied in character, but some of the most successful are images of relatively flat, inanimate objects, such as this extraordinary example of a print attached to a wooden plank with a red-wax seal.
piece of paper printed in black and gray, showing a portrait of an older, bearded man
Discover works by Pietro Perugino and learn about the artist
Pietro Perugino, a) The Baptism of Christ; b) Draped Figure Holding a Book and Man
Discover works by Maurice Kann and learn about the artist
bowl with border of dolphins and "delphigriffs"; in the center, head of a young man
Vincent van Gogh, born in 1853, grew up in the southern Netherlands, where his father was a minister. After seven years at a commercial art firm, Van Gogh’s desire to help humanity led him to become a teacher, preacher, and missionary—yet without success.
Gachet (Man with a Pipe), 1890, etching on Japanese paper, Rosenwald Collection,
Few artists could match Moroni’s skill in depicting the appearance of his sitters, far less his ability to conjure the inner workings of their minds. The identity of the gentleman in this penetrating portrait is a mystery.
Out Recenter Visual Description Shown from the knees up, a light-skinned man
Gerrit van Honthorst (1592–1656) has long been considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. After training in Utrecht, he traveled to Italy around 1615, where he embraced the radical stylistic and thematic ideas of Caravaggio.
One man, wearing crimson red and black, sits with his back to us to our left on the
During the mid-19th century, George Catlin created two large collections of paintings featuring portraits of Native Americans, genre scenes, and western landscapes. The first collection, which he called his „Indian Gallery,“ included more than 500 works completed during the 1830s.
To our right, the man closest to the woman sits with his legs crossed, and the other
Discover works by Filippino Lippi and learn about the artist
paper · Accession ID 1991.190.1.f Artwork Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Man
Discover works by Jacopo Palma il Giovane and learn about the artist
1991.19.1 Artwork Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Studies of Christ Healing the Blind Man
