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Genre Painting in Northern Europe

April 1, 2008

By Jennifer Meagher

A large facet of a genre scene’s appeal was the opportunity it afforded to gaze into a private interior and to identify with the values expressed by the subject.

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Islamic Carpets in European Paintings

October 1, 2011

By Walter B. Denny

From biblical times onward, the concept of having an expensive textile underfoot has been associated with wealth, power, and sanctity.

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Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe

August 1, 2007

By Jean Sorabella

A portrait does not merely record someone’s features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person’s presence.

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Titian (ca. 1485/90?–1576)

October 1, 2003

By Department of European Paintings

Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art, painting altarpieces, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral landscapes with figures.

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Velázquez (1599–1660)

October 1, 2003, revised September 1, 2009

By Everett Fahy

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, the most admired—perhaps the greatest—European painter who ever lived, possessed a miraculous gift for conveying a sense of truth.

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Landscape Painting in the Netherlands

December 1, 2014

By Walter A. Liedtke

Dutch and Flemish landscape paintings were rarely symbolic but were usually rich in associations, ranging from God and all of nature to national, regional, or local pride, agriculture and commerce, leisure time, and the sheer pleasure of physical sensation.

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Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)

October 1, 2008

By Johanna Hecht

The Enlightenment virtues of truth to nature, simplicity, and grace all found sublime expression through his ability to translate into marble both a subject’s personality and the vibrant essence of living flesh, their inner as well as outer life.

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Frans Hals (1582/83–1666)

August 1, 2011

By Walter A. Liedtke

Hals’ portraits suggest friendliness, preoccupation, or reserve, without giving away much about the person.

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Back on View: A Velázquez Fully Restored

December 21, 2010

By Thomas P. Campbell

Velázquez's portrait of Philip IV, king of Spain, went back on view in the European Paintings galleries today after an absence of more than a year, following the completion of a particularly complex restoration.