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Still Life with Old Shoe, is an oil painting done by Joan Miró in 1937 and now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The work entered the museum as a gift by James Thrall Soby in 1970. When started the Spanish Civil War Miró was going to his house of Mont-roig del...

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Long regarded one of the Rijksmuseum’s masterpieces, the Mary Magdalen shows the saint half-length, seated before a broad, luminous landscape. She sits on a narrow plateau which is defined on the right by a curving tree trunk with a broken stump near the base. The saint’s portrait-like appearance, w...

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In this small panel by Gerrit Dou, an old woman and a young boy, gesturing to a shallow tub of fish, stand framed in an arched stone opening. They appear to be discussing the herring she holds in her right hand. The old woman’s stern glance allies her to the stereotype of fishwives as raw, coarse wo...

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Castiglione voraciously absorbed a range of precedents—Van Dyck, Rubens, and Rembrandt, among others—to establish unique, radical techniques of both drawing and painting. Short repeated diagonal brushstrokes build up the clothing, and rich impasto gives a tactile physicality to the still life of sku...

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The nineteenth-century French critic Théophile Thoré remarked with astonishment when he saw Adriaen van Ostade’s Travellers at Rest in the Rijksmuseum: ‘The painter was already 61 years old but one can hardly see it’.6 His admiration was shared by Hofstede de Groot, who considered the 1671 work ‘one...

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The work freezes a fragment of middle-class life, with the figures portrayed set in a space that is real, yet also minimal and abstract, just as the expressions of the individuals appear neutral, as if present but emotively distant from the happy event, waiting for the ritual photograph like immobil...

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This painting is one of Modigliani’s earlier works, and as such has much more of a traditional look. This painting is also indicative of the artist’s later style in the figure’s elongated neck and the still, somber emotion on her face. There is also much more detail in her clothing and her face than...

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