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Image for Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano (ca. 1510–1592)
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Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano (ca. 1510–1592)

March 1, 2009

By Keith Christiansen

Today, Bassano is recognized as the author of some of the most astonishing as well as original pictures of the sixteenth century: works that combine an acute attention to naturalistic detail with elegantly choreographed figures and an interest in everyday activities.
Image for How Bassano's age and death change our understanding of his unfinished painting
"I think his age liberated him and that he was working on it for himself."
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The Inescapable Gaze of a Tintoretto Portrait

January 18, 2019

By Alison Manges Nogueira

With less than a week left to visit Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings, one of the exhibition's curators muses on the vibrant modernity and astonishing immediacy of Jacopo Tintoretto's small-scale portraits.
Image for *Spotlight*: “Writers are reaching for our thorns; the thorns which define our entire being.”
Novelist Min Jin Lee reflects on Antico’s _Spinario_ in relation to her creative pursuits.
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A Virtual Tour of The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570

July 1, 2021

By Keith Christiansen and Carlo Falciani

This stunning exhibition features over 90 works portraying Medicean Florence’s elite painted by the period’s most celebrated artists, from Raphael to Agnolo Bronzino.
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Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries

October 1, 2003

By Ross Finocchio

While the formal vocabulary of Mannerism takes much from the later works of Michelangelo and Raphael, its adherents generally favored compositional tension and instability.
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A Raffle Ticket to Win a "Michelangelo"?

January 19, 2018

By Femke Speelberg

Associate Curator Femke Speelberg recounts the interesting tale of a painting based on a cartoon by Michelangelo that was almost given away by raffle in 1735.
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Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)

Date: 1729–39
Accession Number: 1975.1.263

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Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)

Date: 1730s
Accession Number: 1985.5

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possibly after Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)

Date: ca. 1765–1770
Accession Number: 17.190.1066

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Plate

After a print by Joseph Wagner (Italian, Thalendorf 1706–1780 Venice)

Date: 1750–70
Accession Number: 19.156

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Joseph Wagner (Italian, Thalendorf 1706–1780 Venice)

Date: 1739
Accession Number: 53.522.32

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main decorative scenes based on prints published by Joseph Wagner (Italian, Thalendorf 1706–1780 Venice)

Date: ca. 1780–90
Accession Number: 64.101.849a, b

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Reichsdruckerei (German, active 1879–1951)

Date: 1880–1900
Accession Number: 18.48.4-578

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Georg Leopold Hertel (German, active 1780)

Date: ca. 1780
Accession Number: 43.59.1