Gustave Caillebotte plays with perspective in his 1880 work Interior, A Woman Reading. Private Collection/Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art If you're planning to become an artist, here's one nice way to do it: be independently ...
Peder Monsted (1859-1941) The Danish landscape painter Peder Mork Monsted was famous for the clarity of light general to the painters of the 'golden age' of Danish painting, his pictures of beautiful naturalistic scenery made him the leading Danish landscapist of his age. Monsted was born in eastern Denmark but later moved to Copenhagen, where he studied at the Academy in 1875-76. ...
Nicholas Herrera sits in his studio, with a work in progress sitting just over his shoulder.(Photos are courtesy of David Michael Kennedy, another El Rito native, who was featured on NPR in 2011.) ...
Museumgoers play in the 10,000-square-foot exhibition called "The Beach" at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The nation's capital is sweaty and sweltering right now, but Washington locals and visitors can find a seaside getaway in the most unlikely of places. In the middle of downtown D.C., the National Building ...
Wtewael revisited the adultery of Mars and Venus several times. In this version of Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan (1604-1608), Apollo raises the curtain on the bed as Vulcan, Venus' husband, approaches with his net, hoping to ensnare the couple. Cupid — Venus' son — takes aim at Apollo, as Mercury, Diana and Saturn look on and laugh. The J. Paul Getty Museum/National ...
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