"You can see the kind of effort that it costs her to do very simple things in her life. It immortalizes, in a way, the human condition."
Paintings conservator George Bisacca contemplates the little details that create a feeling of familiarity in a work of art.
Connections: Intimacy
Paintings conservator George Bisacca contemplates the little details that create a feeling of familiarity in a work of art.
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Auguste Rodin
1891
Antonio Rossellino
ca. 1455–60
Roman
14–68 CE
Roman
late 1st century BCE
Etruscan
ca. 500 BCE
Kallimachos
1st–2nd century CE
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1656–57
2nd century A.D.