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Mona Lisa’s metropolis moment:
navigating the urban pulse.

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Flirtation at The Well
Eugene De Blaas

Eugene De Blaas’ “Flirtation at The Well” transports viewers to a sunlit Venetian courtyard, capturing a moment of playful romance with exquisite precision. Painted in the late 19th century, this masterpiece showcases De Blaas’ mastery in depicting lively scenes and intricate details. The well, a central element, becomes the stage for a charming rendezvous, where a young couple engages in a flirtatious exchange amid vibrant architecture and cascading sunlight.

The artist’s meticulous rendering of textures, fabrics, and expressions breathes life into the canvas, emphasizing the allure of courtship in a bygone era. “Flirtation at The Well” not only serves as a celebration of love and charm but also stands as a testament to De Blaas’ ability to encapsulate the elegance and vivacity of Venetian life in this captivating visual narrative.

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Slave Market In Rome
Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “Slave Market in Rome” is a powerful portrayal of the harsh realities of ancient Roman society. Painted in the 19th century, Gérôme skillfully captures the tension and suffering within the confines of a slave market. The composition is both haunting and poignant, revealing the vulnerability of those subjected to the dehumanizing trade.

The meticulous attention to detail in the depiction of enslaved individuals and the market’s surroundings reflects Gérôme’s academic precision. The contrast between the opulent surroundings and the plight of the slaves serves as a stark commentary on the moral complexities of the era.

“Slave Market in Rome” not only serves as a visual historical document but also prompts contemplation on the human condition, prompting viewers to reflect on the injustices of the past and the enduring quest for empathy and justice.

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A Young Girl in Jutland Writing her Beloved’s Name on a Misty Window
Christen Dalsgaard

Christen Dalsgaard’s “A Young Girl in Jutland Writing her Beloved’s Name on a Misty Window” captures the delicate essence of love in a rural setting. Painted in the 19th century, this masterpiece reflects the artist’s ability to infuse everyday scenes with profound emotion. The misty window becomes a canvas for the young girl’s expression of affection, echoing the timeless theme of love’s sweet simplicity.

Dalsgaard, known for his depictions of Danish village life, brings the rustic charm of Jutland to life with meticulous detail. The mist creates an ethereal backdrop, subtly enhancing the romantic atmosphere. The viewer is invited to witness a moment of intimacy, as the girl etches her beloved’s name with a tender touch.

In this work, Dalsgaard not only showcases his technical prowess but also immortalizes the universal language of love, transcending temporal and cultural boundaries.

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La bibliothèque (The Bookcase)
Félix Vallotton

This painting of a woman choosing a book from a shelf is a far cry from Félix Vallotton’s Nabi interiors featuring the everyday triumphs and tragedies of bourgeois households. It is also very different from the views of rows of rooms opening onto one another in his own apartment in the early years of the century, such as the Femme en bleu fouillant dans une armoire (Woman in blue rifling through a wardrobe, 1903, Paris, Musée d’Orsay), in which the model was also shown from behind, but full-length and from a greater distance.

Here, the tighter framing defines a small space with a strict geometrical grid of perpendicular vertical lines. The painter foregrounds the lines of the bookcase. The vertical bands of the door posts and the folds of the curtain protecting the books from the light further heighten the sense of verticality. Within this tight-knit frame, Vallotton sets the warm hues of the bookcase itself and the woman’s skirt and brown hair against the chillier tones of her blue blouse. The choice of books plays into the palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in an ironic nod to the supposed female preference for thrilling novels.

Though Vallotton considered this an important work, it was rejected by the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, held in Pittsburgh in 1920. It had been shown by Vallotton’s Paris art dealer Eugène Druet the previous year, when nothing about it was deemed shocking, “neither the ex*****on nor the subject, of the utmost decency”, as Vallotton wrote in the Bulletin de la vie artistique. He was accepted for all the Institute’s exhibitions after 1922, when this work was acquired by the Mulhouse-based industrialist Gaston Frey.

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Marble bust of a Man
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162

Although the surface of this piece has been strongly cleaned and even recut in places, evidence of a heavy dark incrustation, formed during centuries of burial, is
still visible, especially at the back. The expanse of chest and the full, fleshy appearance of the face and neck are characteristics suggesting that the work was carved in the mid-first century A.D., either as a copy of a portrait created in the Republican period or as a new work cast in that realistic style.



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The Bather
William Edward Frost

William Edward Frost was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female n**e. Frost was educated in the schools of the Royal Academy. At the beginning of 1829, he established a reputation as a portrait painter before branching into historical and mythological subjects, including the subgenre of fairy painting that was characteristic of Victorian art. In 1839, he won the Royal Academy’s gold medal for his Prometheus Bound, and in 1843, he won a prize in the Westminster Hall competition for his Una Alarmed by Fauns (a subject from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene). He was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1846 and a full member in 1870. Frost is widely recognized as a follower of William Etty, who preceded him as the primary British painter of n**es in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Despite the prudishness of the Victorian era, Frost’s relatively chaste n**es were popular and his career was financially successful. At their best, Frost’s works have a distinctive jewel-like charm, his attractive young women models possessing a pert, self-conscious quality, which makes them more titillating than Etty’s powerful studies.

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Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck

In Van Dyck’s portrait, the pregnant queen of England cradles her arms over her abdomen while standing next to a crown that advertises her rank. Henrietta Maria commissioned this painting as a gift for Cardinal Francesco Barberini, who viewed the devout French-born queen as a critical collaborator in his dream of regaining England for the Catholic Church. Destined for a leading patron of the arts in Baroque Rome, Van Dyck’s portrait was one of many diplomatic gifts that spread the artist’s fame and influence throughout Europe.

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Gentle Spring
Frederick Sandys

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865 accompanied in the catalogue by a sonnet by the artist’s friend, Charles Algernon Swinburne. The figure was painted in the garden of the poet and novelist, George Meredith. She represents Proserpina returning from the land of the dead. Sandys joined Rossetti’s circle in 1857 and lived with him in Cheyne Walk for most of 1866.

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Portrait of a Young Woman
Pollaiuolo

The work is one of the most celebrated and best preserved Renaissance portraits of a woman in profile of those attributed to one of the two Pollaiuolo brothers. It is often compared to Portrait of a Woman at the Uffizi, as well as to similar portraits held in the Staatliche Museen, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Similar facial features can also be seen in Portrait of a Girl by Andrea della Robbia. These works have traditionally been attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo, but recent critics, such as Aldo Galli, have proposed attributions to Antonio.

The identity of the subject of the portrait in Milan is unclear. Various names have been proposed, including the wife of the banker Giovanni de' Bardi (based on the probably false inscription on the work's verso "UXOR JOHANNIS DE BARDI"), Marietta Strozzi, or a woman of the Belgioioso family.

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Portrait of Count Grigory Orlov
Vigillius Eriksen

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The Hippolytus Triptych
Dieric Bouts the Elder

The center panel presents a medieval-style drawing and quartering of the saint, a slight departure from the account in the Golden Legend.

In the Legend the saint is stripped naked at the command of the Emperor Decius. Here the artist has left him a bit of covering; the rest of his clothes lie on the ground in the lower part of the image, between the two horses. Hippolytus' response to the stripping was to tell Decius, "you haven't stripped me, rather you've clothed me."

The kneeling figure in the right panel could be Justin, the priest who was to bury the saint's body. The standing figures in red are Decius and his prefect Valerian. The kneeling figures in the left panel are the donors: Hippolyte de Berthoz, Charles the Bold's treasurer, and his wife Elisabeth Hugheins.

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Witches Going to their Sabbath

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Witches going to their Sabbath

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The Creation of Adam is a fresco painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512 on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City. It depicts the passage from the Book of Genesis which describes God creating Adam and giving life to the first man. It is one of the most iconic works of the Renaissance and one of the most reproduced religious works.

Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel when he was in Rome working on the tomb of Pope Julius II. The original commission included paintings of the Twelve Apostles on the pendentives of the Sistine Chapel, however, Michelangelo persuaded the Pope to allow him to rethink the design. The final result is one of his most magnificent and complex works which covers over 500 square meters of ceiling, depicting over 300 figures.



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Guilty

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Lorenzo Costa, detto il Vecchio
Ferrara



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Adam & Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder

The panel shows Adam and Eve in Paradise, at the moment when Eve is showing the forbidden fruit to him. The tree trunk acts as a symmetrical axis for the composition. The background shows an open space with great foliage, giving evidence of Cranach's skills. In Eve we can observe the characteristic type of female n**e present in Cranach's work.



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The Dying Cleopatra
Jan van Scorel

Jan van Scorel was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Romanist style who had spent a number of years in Italy, where he thoroughly absorbed the Italian style of painting. His trip to Italy coincided with the brief reign of the only Dutch pope in history, Adrian VI in 1522–23. The pope made him a court painter and superintendent of his collection of antiquities. His stay in Italy lasted from 1518 to 1524 and he also visited Nuremberg, Venice and Jerusalem. Venetian art had an important impact on the development of his style.

He differed from most Romanists in that he was a native of the northern Netherlands and not of Flanders and that he remained most of his life in the northern Netherlands. He settled permanently in Utrecht in 1530 and established a large workshop on the Italian model. The workshop mainly produced altarpieces, many of which were destroyed in the Reformation iconoclasm in the years just after his death. He also held clerical appointments. This did not stop him from having a long-time relationship with a mistress who may have modelled for some of his female figures.

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Anna, Archduches of Austria & Queen of Spain
Sofinisba Anguissola

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Study of Flesh and Gold
William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), one of New York’s most prominent artists in the 1880s, surpassed all others in the use of pastel. In his adept hands, pastel’s chalky matter rivaled the authority of oil paint, though with greater receptivity to light and an unmatched velvety texture. Chase produced more than one hundred pastels in the 1880s, increasing the visibility of the medium in exhibitions and promoting the technique with forward-looking artists of the day.

The pastel has borne more than one title since its making. The Gallery has reinstated Study of Flesh Color and Gold, which was used when the pastel was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1897 and is reminiscent of titles favored by James McNeill Whistler. Consider, for example, Whistler’s Nocturne in Black and Gold or his Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black. Chase was an exuberant admirer of Whistler’s work and sought out his acquaintance while on a trip to London in 1885. By all accounts the two men got along famously, but Chase eventually tired of the older artist’s quarrelsome behavior. Nonetheless, he maintained respect for Whistler’s work and continued to laud his accomplishments.

In Study of Flesh Color and Gold, Chase applied the pastel relatively densely and with exceptional vigor, maneuvering the colored crayon as one would a brush loaded with oil paint. In keeping with the contemporary vogue for Japonisme, Chase (like Whistler) adopted Japanese props. He tilted the picture plane and cropped the composition, devices common to Japanese prints. Like Kitagawa Utamaro, whose eighteenth-century prints were coveted by avant-garde artists at the time, Chase focused on the figure’s bare back. But he heightened the effect—to the point of its being somewhat startling—by placing the model in the extreme forefront of the composition, adding a modern sensibility to a traditional Japanese subject.

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Maika
Christian Schad

German painter Christian Schad is best known for his enigmatic portraits of the modern men and women of Weimar Germany. He captured the decadence and erotic freedoms of the volatile 1920s in his portraits of bohemians, intellectuals, and aristocrats. Schad employed a realistic painting technique honed at the traditional art academy in Naples to create what critic Wieland Schmied called the “coldest, sharpest, most precise” paintings of the nascent “Neue Sachlichkeit” movement of which he was a member. As an early affiliate of the anti-art Dada movement, whose members he met when living in Zurich during World War I, Schad also experimented with abstract photograms which he dubbed “Schadographs.”

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Double portrait of count Preben Bille-Brahe and his second wife, Johanne Caroline, nee Falbe
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg



When you absolutely don’t feel like it

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The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins
Workshop or close circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder



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Jenny Lind
Johan Gustaf Sandberg

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How they want you to look at art in 2023.

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The Triumph of Venice
Pompeo Batoni

Detail from the painting at the North Carolina Museum

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Virgin of Consolation
Adolphe-William Bouguereau



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Adam and Eve
Lucas the Elder Cranach



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American Gothic
Grant Wood