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The Broken Column is a self-portrait executed in 1944 painted in a surrealist style by the artist Frida Kahlo, who was born in Mexico in 1906. It is in private ownership. It is a small work that measures 16.9 inches by 13 inches, and is an oil painting on canvas. - Background Kahlo’s best-known work...

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The position a little bend forward, the wrinkles that furrow his face and the semi toothless mouth that this human figure depicts, clearly indicate that it is the representation of an elder in an unmistakable Mexica style. It is dressed simply with a loincloth or máxtlatl tied up with a decorative k...

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In its early phases, large-scale Greek sculpture in stone appeared primarily in three contexts: in sanctuaries, as votive offerings; at graves; and in architectural programs. This last is the most likely for the two women depicted here in relief (one of whom is preserved only down to the neck) in vi...

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Four generations of the Princes of Orange. From left to right: Willem I (sitting), Maurits, Willem II, Frederik Hendrik and Willem III. On the left a pillar and a broken column. All in armor, except Willem III.

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A woman wearing a breastplate and helmet over a toga stands to our left on a platform, gesturing with one arm extended to a group of about a dozen soldiers gathered around her in this horizontal painting. The woman has pale white skin and most of the soldiers have ruddy complexions. The woman stands...

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Blankert was the first to point out that this picture by Jan Both must be the companion piece to the Landscape with a Ruined Temple and Card Players in Munich (fig. a).7 Not only are the dimensions almost the same but the compositions and the placement of the figures are each other’s mirror image. B...

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Cylindrical, C-shaped, and triangular forms are painted with flat areas of vivid pink, purple, navy, royal, and light blue, turquoise, white, black, and gray in this abstract, horizontal painting. A rectangular form, jutting into the picture from the lower left corner, suggests a table, on which the...

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A Surrealist artist of world-wide renown, Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907. At the age of 18 she was injured in a bus accident, suffering a broken spinal column, collarbone, pelvis, several ribs, as well as 11 fractures in her right leg, and a dislocated foot. Through nearly 30 surgeries ...

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The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevi...

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A red jockey’s cap, a riding crop, a horseshoe, a spur, and bits of posters and papers are tacked and pasted against a wooden forest-green door, which fills this vertical painting. At the midline about a third of the way down the composition, the crimson-red cap hangs from a loop on a nail so we loo...

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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard is a colored painting created by Pablo Picasso in 1910. Ambroise Vollard is a French dealer, who is credited to provide exposure and emotional support to unknown artists including Pablo Picasso. The works reflect Analytical Cubism artwork completed by use of oil techniqu...

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The sculpture represents a man sitting on a small seat decorated with chalchihuites or jade beads and conches, richly dressed with a paper fan on the back of his head and fine stone jewelry like earflaps, bracelets and a green stone necklace, bangles with turquoise and gold, and an anthropomorphous ...

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When this interior of a cave, executed on copper, entered the Rijksmuseum it was already in a very damaged state due to corrosion.5 The signature ‘petrus.van. hattich / 16[..]’ is well preserved, however, with the exception of the last two digits of the year. It was read as ‘1646’ when the picture w...

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Discover the beauty and historical significance of William Turner's master...

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The rounded part of the panel is a later addition (perhaps by the artist), as shown by copies such as in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. Ridolfi mentions the painting as being in the church of S. Maria Nuova, Venice, from which it was taken in 1808 to the Brera.A clearing in the woods is immersed i...

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The rounded part of the panel is a later addition (perhaps by the artist), as shown by copies such as in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. Ridolfi mentions the painting as being in the church of S. Maria Nuova, Venice, from which it was taken in 1808 to the Brera.A clearing in the woods is immersed i...

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