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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Using vigorous lines Rembrandt has drawn a corpulent man leaning across a table-top with his arms crossed. The man's floppy hat tilts forward slightly, casting a shadow onto his podgy face. Rembrandt used brown gallnut ink...
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is the senior United States senator from Delaware, and the presumptive Democratic Party vice presidential nominee in the 2008 presidential election. Biden was announced as the running mate of presumptive...
Pen and brown ink with grey wash, 127x95mm Born to a family of millers in Leiden, Rembrandt left university at 14 to pursue a career as an artist. The decision turned out to be a good one since after serving his apprenticeship in Amsterdam he was singled...
Title Pierrot (Oudezijds Achterburgwal) Year 1889 Artist James Abott McNeill Whistler Technique Ink on paper/Dry-point and etching Dimensions 22,9 x 16,1 cm The back of a house reflected in the water of an Amsterdam canal. There are two people in the...
Montmajour, Vincent Van Gogh Year 1888 Technique Ink and chalk on paper/Black chalk, brown and black ink A southern landscape rendered in brown ink, and accentuated here and there with black chalk. The Montmajour cloister at Arles, from which the title...
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso At the age of 18 he entered the Superior School of Fine Arts of Lisbon, and two years later he leaves to Paris, where he intends to continue his studies but soon he quits the architecture course and starts to study painting. In...
A Master of the erotic thème, as he was of many thèmes and styles, Pablo Picasso did his most erotic series of drawings in 1968 at the age of 87. This period includes the finest of the Master's erotic works, yet he exhibited another erotic series painted...
Paroquia do Monte I greja da Nossa Senhora do Monte; Church of our Lady of Monte The place I Grew up in I remember very well, a long time ago i used to play as a child in this wonderful surroundings.It was here, were I was baptized, took first communion...
I have changed my plans to return to Amsterdam tomorrow.My Father is not well, I will remain here until Monday. I remember leaving this island 18 years ago, one of the main reasons to leave was to get away from my parents.Now that I am older that reason...
A young woman taking a bath, assisted by two servants. This is Bathsheba, a legendary beauty. Cornelis van Haarlem painted her in 1594. The story of the fair Bathsheba is told in the biblical Book of Samuel. One evening she was bathing in the garden....
A young woman leans over weakly in her chair, her head resting on a cushion on the table. The doctor is taking her pulse. What is the young lady suffering from? Probably she is not ill, just hopelessly in love. She is 'lovesick', her heart is broken....
Title The Peace Negotiations between Claudius Civilis and Cerealis Year c. 1660-70 Standing on opposite sides of a demolished bridge are two warriors. They are negotiating across the divide. The man on the right is Cerealis, recognisable as a Roman from...
This is not a picture of a man smoking a pipe, but a picture of a painting of a man smoking a pipe. In front of the painting-within-a-painting hangs a green curtain on a copper rail. It is so realistic you might even mistake it for a real curtain - in...
The Spendthrift Title The Spendthrift', Act III, Scene V, from the play of the same name by Thomas Asselijn Year 1741 Artist Cornelis Troost Technique Oil on panel Dimensions 68,5 x 86 cm This tableau shows a scene from the farce 'The Spendthrift or the...
Title The Bodies of the De Witt Brothers, Hanged at Groene Zoodje on Vijverberg in The Hague Artist Jan de Baen The 'Groene zoodje' on Vijverberg in The Hague, was, for a few days in August 1672, silent witness to this gruesome scene. Two naked bodies...
Year 1623 Artist Gerard van Honthorst A man is leaning out of a window, laughing. In one hand he has a violin and a bow; in the other a glass of wine. He is pushing the curtain - a Persian carpet - to the side. The man is wearing a fantasy costume: an...
An elegantly dressed man and woman are in a vague, dark room. The man has lovingly placed his arm around the woman's shoulder and a hand on her breast. Very carefully she touches his hand with her fingertips. Both are staring straight ahead, they seem...
Artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Year 1633 Rembrandt painted this portrait of Saskia Uylenburgh in 1633. She was twenty years old at the time and had just become engaged to Rembrandt. They were married a year later. Saskia was the niece of the art...
Title Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan, Year 1623 On the floor in a smithy lies Prometheus. The gods' smith, Vulcan, is fastening handcuffs on him. Filled with pity, the messenger of the gods, Mercury watches this happening. Van Baburen has presented...
The story at the heart of the painting came to Paula Rego ready-made in the form of Jean Genet's play The Maids (1947), itself based on the real-life case of the Papin sisters, Christine and Lea, who worked as maids for a rich Parisian family. One day,...
The Deposition, 1611 central piece in triptych Painting that would emulate Titian attempts to catch to catch the sensational aspects of things. What painting, as an art, shares with objects of sensation is visibility ; and vision is in the first instance...
Sunflower II, 1909 Wien museum, Vienna Vincent Van Gogh has always been well known for his sunflower paintings, examples of wich were exhibeted at the Vienna Secession in 1903 and again at the GalerieMiethkein1906. Many Viennese artists, including not...
b. 1871, Turin; d. 1958, Rome Giacomo Balla was born in Turin on July 18, 1871. In 1891 he studied briefly at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti and the Liceo Artistico in Turin and exhibited for the first time under the aegis of the Società Promotrice...
The painter Max Oppenheimer, three-quarter Length, 1910 by Egon Schiele Max Oppenheimer, a native of Vienna, began to study art at the Academy at the age of fifteen, continuing from 1903 at the Prague Art Academy. In 1906 Max Oppenheimer joined the Prague...
Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait This is a portrait of the Netherlands' most famous nineteenth-century artist, Vincent van Gogh. His piercing eyes seek out the viewer; the portrait is personal and direct. It is painted in short, firm lines using many colours;...
