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An important figure in what became known as the Chicago Black Renaissance, White taught art classes at the Southside Community Art Center. [6] Following his first show at Paragon Studios in Cincinnati in 1938, White's work was exhibited widely throughout the United States, including, among many others, exhibitions at the Roko Gallery, the ...
In 2008, a curator at the Louvre discovered several faint sketches believed to have been made by Leonardo on the back of the painting. [2] [3] [4] Infrared reflectography was used to reveal a "7–by–4 inch drawing of a horse's head", which had a resemblance to sketches of horses that Leonardo had made previously before drawing The Battle of ...
The painting is covered with a thick layer of yellowed varnish Self-portrait with Plumed Beret: 1629: Oil on panel: 89.7 x 73.5: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston: 29: Self-portrait with a Gorget: c. 1629: Oil on panel: 38.2 x 31: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg: 30: The painting is covered by a layer of yellowed varnish and shows ...
During the Second World War the painting was stolen by the Nazis from Poland. Many historians regard it as the most important painting missing since World War II. [1] [2] The portrait is in oil on panel, probably from 1513 to 1514, and is by the Italian High Renaissance painter and architect Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino better known simply as ...
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ ˈ r ɛ m b r æ n t, ˈ r ɛ m b r ɑː n t /; [2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)ˌsoːɱ vɑn ˈrɛin] ⓘ; 15 July 1606 [1] – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
Black boy with slave collar, Dutch 17th-century painting. Representations of slavery in European art date back to ancient times. They show slaves of varied ethnicity, white as well as black. In Europe, slavery became increasingly associated with blackness from the 17th century onwards. [1] However, slaves before this period were predominantly ...
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo 's Last Judgement of the 1530s.