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B. Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach; The Bagpipe Lesson; The Banjo Lesson; The Bar (painting) Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme) Berlin Street Scene; Between Rounds
The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form.
The art historian Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich, writing for Encyclopædia Britannica, states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo ('cosmography of the microcosm'). He believed the workings of the human body to be an ...
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1]Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2]
Katy Hessel's new book 'The Story of Art Without Men' unearths centuries of 'firsts' — women creating art and fighting against historical invisibility.
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, Alte Nationalgalerie, c. 1824. 34 x 44 cm Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1825–1830. 34.9 x 43.8 cm. Two Men Contemplating the Moon (German: Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes) and Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon are a series of similar paintings by Caspar David ...
The Battle of the Nudes or Battle of the Naked Men, [1] probably dating from 1465–1475, is an engraving by the Florentine goldsmith and sculptor Antonio del Pollaiuolo which is one of the most significant old master prints of the Italian Renaissance. The engraving is large at 42.4 × 60.9 cm, and depicts five men wearing headbands and five ...