EditorialVirgin and Child, ca. 1490, Oil on wood, Overall 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (27.3 x 21 cm); painted surface 9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.9 x 16.8 cm), Paintings, Workshop of Hans Memling (Netherlandish, Seligenstadt, active by 1465?died 1494 Bruges), This picture was mos...
EditorialPanorama of the times, [1821?], a man, the celebrated juggler, standing on a stage greeting the audience, sitting at his sides are two hurdy-gurdy players, one on a box labeled Money Box and the other on a box labeled Quack Medicine. The stage projects...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Henriot Family (La Famille Henriot), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1875, Oil on canvas, Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late nineteenth century. Renoir alludes to this kind of acti...
EditorialClaude Monet: Madame Monet Embroidering (Camille au m?tier), Claude Monet, 1875, Oil on canvas, Though Monet preferred painting in the open air, surrounded by shifting light and atmosphere, here he brings his easel indoors to capture his first wife, Ca...
EditorialNicolas Lancret: Open Cage - Girl in Landscape, Nicolas Lancret, First half of 18th century, Oil on canvas, A young woman, possibly a sherpherdess, searches the sky for a bird released from a small birdcage. Painted by the French artist Nicolas Lancret...
EditorialMaurice Brazil Prendergast: Idyl, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, c. 1912?1915, Oil on canvas, Maurice Prendergast was an American artist who applied the lessons of French post-impressionism to his own work. The bold brushwork you see here, for example, wh...
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.
EditorialPlotus novae hollandiae, Print, Darter, The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is ra...
EditorialPlotus levaillantii, Print, Darter, The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is rarer ...
EditorialPlotus levaillantii, Print, Darter, The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is rarer ...
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.