Portrait of an Elderly Man or Portrait of an Old Nobleman (Spanish - Retrato de caballero anciano) is a 1597-1600 oil on canvas portrait by El Greco, now...
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some stage. It is probably thus related to the Portrait of an Elderly Man now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. That reasoning for the two paintings...
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in the Albertina may be such a record drawing of The Portrait of an Elderly Man. The early compositions of Madonna by Bonsignori are Virgin and Child (c...
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Quentin Matsys (category Pupils and followers of Leonardo da Vinci)
became a master in the guild of painters at Antwerp. His most well known satirical works include A Portrait of an Elderly Man (1513), and The Money Changer...
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Saturn Devouring His Son (redirect from Saturn Devouring One of His Sons)
1819, Goya purchased a house on the banks of Manzanares near Madrid called Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man). It was a two-story house which was named...
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Las Meninas (redirect from The Maids of Honor)
others such as Las Meninas. An almost immediate influence can be seen in the two portraits by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo of subjects depicted in Las...
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Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man is a novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published posthumously in 2000. It is his seventh novel. His final work...
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expression a mix of wistfulness and resignation. Belting proposed that the tree-man's face is a self-portrait, citing the figure's "expression of irony and the...
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The Haywain Triptych (category Paintings of Jesus)
wayfarer. Around him is a series of miniatures including the robbery of another wayfarer and a hanged man. The man uses a stick to repel a dog. According...
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Velázquez's coronation of the Virgin is well-known for being a rare religious work by an artist better known for his portraits, and for the air of naturalness and...
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El Greco (category Greek portrait painters)
"astigmatism could never give quality to a canvas, nor talent to a dunce". Portrait of an Old Man, ca. 1595–1600, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) Greek Campoy...
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It has been suggested that the Opening of the Fifth Seal served as an inspiration for the early Cubist works of Pablo Picasso, especially Les Demoiselles...
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Quinta del Sordo ("the House of the Deaf Man"), after the nearest farmhouse had coincidentally also belonged to a deaf man. From his surviving art-works...
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La maja desnuda (category Nude paintings of women)
comparison to the comparatively "timid" nude portrait. The painting carries many of the traditions of depictions of the nude in Spanish art, but marks a clear...
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term for the supporters—collaborators in the view of many—of Joseph Bonaparte. Goya's 1798 portrait of the French ambassador-turned-commandant Ferdinand...
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Picasso of Guernica than with his contemporaries. An example of the play with the illusion of space can be seen in the young man at the top of the ladder...
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painting. The Burial of the Count of Orgaz has been admired not only for its art, but also because it is a gallery of portraits of some of the most important...
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painting of its time. View of Toledo is a landscape portrait. The painting is vibrant with blues, black, white, and vivid greens. It is made up of all earth...
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The Dog (Goya) (category Paintings of dogs)
1819, Goya purchased a house named Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man) on the banks of the Manzanares near Madrid. It was a small two-story house...
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a man in yellow bends over the cross and drills a hole to facilitate the insertion of a nail to be driven through Christ's feet. The radiant face of the...
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hurdy-gurdy, while the wheels of his cart crush a man as if his life is of no importance. A woman has fallen in the path of the death cart. She has a slender...
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Museo del Prado (redirect from Museum of Prado)
Bacchanal of the Andrians, c. 1523–1526 Titian, Equestrian Portrait of Charles V, c. 1548 Titian, La Gloria (Titian), c. 1554 Titian, The Fall of Man, c. 1570...
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known as Two Monks or An Old Man and a Monk (Spanish: Dos viejos, Dos frailes, or Un viejo y un fraile), are names given to one of the 14 Black Paintings...
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Mona Lisa (Prado) (redirect from Mona Lisa of the Prado)
Mediodia of the Alcazar in Madrid as Mujer de mano de Leonardo Abince (Woman by Leonardo da Vinci's hand). However, it is still unknown when the portrait entered...
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The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (category Paintings of Jesus)
them. Sloth (acedia): A lazy man dozes in front of the fireplace while Faith appears to him in a dream, in the guise of a nun, to remind him to say his...
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in the center of the composition, standing out slightly from the rest of the characters. To his left, holding his hand, is an elderly man, Francisco Fernández...
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Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, New York) (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
human nature of this portrait. The storm clouds also have breaks of light, allowing the viewer to understand Christ's acceptance of his sacrifice as he...
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Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by El Greco, likely dating to between 1595 and 1600. The work's distinction as a self-portrait...
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Kenneth Clark considered The Second of May 1808 an "artistic failure ... perhaps he could not shake off the memory of similar compositions by Rubens". Whether...
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represented. One of Velázquez's contemporaries, Peter Paul Rubens, has been cited to be an inspiration for the work connected to The Surrender of Breda. Despite...
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