The 938 Artworks of topic Composition and ...

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Mangold’s exploration of the possibilities of geometric abstraction reaches back to the 1960s, when the artist emerged as a significant Minimalist painter. Much of his work has interrogated the relationship of the part to the whole and perceptions of incomplete design, often with architectural refer...

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Murray belonged to a generation of postmodern artists that challenged the austerity and impersonality of Minimalism and post-painterly abstraction by working in different techniques and styles simultaneously, blurring perceived boundaries between traditional media. Composed of multiple irregularly s...

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Depiction of a rider trying to control his runaway horse. This powerful composition occupies the central block of the west frieze, which is possibly the work of Pheidias. It has been suggested that the rider is one of the two Athenian Cavalry commanders. Marble from the mount Penteli.

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Clashing swords; a tangle of bodies; confusion reigns on this battlefield. In the midst of the melee, a knight in armor, holding a sword and a scepter bearing the fleur-de-lis, receives the crown handed to him by a child. Here, the Venetian painter Francesco Bassano depicts the conquest of Naples by...

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Holbein prepared this cartoon for a large-scale work to commemorate the grant of a royal charter to the Company of Barbers and the Guild of Surgeons on their merger in 1540. Presumably at the request of his clients, Holbein based the design on that of the miniatures painted on Tudor charters of priv...

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The vendel of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz Blauw at the beer brewery de Haan on the corner of the Lastage (hoek Geldersekade and Boomsloot) in Amsterdam, 1639. Be portrayed: Pieter Hulft (Vandrig), Dirck de Lange (Sergeant), Jochem Rendorp (Sergeant), Hendrick Gerritsz Velthoen...

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As part of a daily cycle of prayers in honor of the Virgin, Matins is habitually illustrated by an Annunciation, with the angel Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear the infant Jesus. Inhabitual, however, are details of this composition by Jean Bourdichon of Tours, the foremost illuminator t...

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The unfinished picture, formerly attributed to Sacchi, depicts the pope with an immediacy and expressive force that is manifested in the rapid brushstrokes. The composition, datable to 1632, is directly related to Bernini's drawing for the engraved portrait of the pope on the frontispiece of Urban V...

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Noli me Tangere (Unknown date, perhaps 1526 to 1528) is a artwork (Oil and tempera on oak) by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger. Noli me tangere, meaning 'don't touch me' / 'touch me not', is the Latin version of words spoken, according to John 20:17, by Jesus to Mary Magdal...

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Domenichino, who is renowned for his large-scale frescoes, history paintings, and altarpieces, became Italy’s leading classical painter in the first half of the seventeenth century. Trained at the Carracci Academy in his native city of Bologna, he came to Rome in 1602 to work under Annibale Carracci...

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Portrait of Sir Brian Tuke (1533–35) is artwork (Oil and tempera on oak) by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger. The painting (49.1 × 38.5 cm) is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C..

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Portrait of Dr John Chambers (1543) is a artwork (oil and tempera on oak) by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger. The painting (51 × 44 cm) is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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