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The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts the harvest time set in a landscape, in the months of July and August or late summer. [ 1 ] Nicolaes Jonghelinck , a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting as part of a cycle of six paintings depicting various ...
The rurality of his native region was his main source of inspiration. Nicknamed the “painter of harvesters”, his works bears witness to the working and peasant social life of his time through scenes of rural or urban work. It was the painting The Harvesters' Pay (1882) that brought him notoriety and recognition from his peers.
Harvesters (Danish: Høstarbejdere) is a 1905 oil painting on canvas by the Danish artist Anna Ancher, a member of the artists' community known as the Skagen Painters which flourished in Skagen in the north of Jutland in Denmark in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus , celebrated at Christmas , are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke , and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition.
Painting displayed in Moscow. Alexander Ivanov was born on 28 July 1806 to a family of artists. He was only eleven years old when he entered as a student in the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under the guidance of his father, Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, a professor of painting. Ivanov was awarded two silver medals and in 1824 received ...
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The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
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