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Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God is an oil painting by the Polish artist Jan Matejko, finished in 1873, depicting Nicolaus Copernicus observing the heavens from a balcony by a tower near the cathedral in Frombork (seen in the back). Currently the painting is in the collection of the ...
Carl Spitzweg repeated this image, and had different titles for different versions. The Astronomer and The Astrologer are traditional titles but in literature we also find The Stargazer or The Starreader (Der Sterndeuter). Two men are in a room in a tower with a large telescope and a globe to the ri...
The Geographer is a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1668-1669, and is now in the collection of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut museum in Frankfurt am Main. This is one of only three paintings Vermeer signed and dated (the other two are The Astronomer and The Procuress). The geogra...
'Frescoes in the oratories of brotherhoods are found throughout Italy. In 1516 to 1518 the Sienese brotherhood of Mary and Bernardino commissioned Girolamo del Pacchia, Sodoma, and Domenico Beccafumi to fresco the walls of their oratory with a cycle on the life of Mary, The artists painted two stori...
This chalk study by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts the medieval Scottish magician and astronomer Michael Scott placing a ring on the finger of a young girl. It was a study for an oil painting commissioned in 1871 but never executed. The feature of the seated central woman is Jane Morris, William Mor...
The significance of the sciences increased by leaps and bounds in the seventeenth century, particularly in Holland. This circumstance is reflected in the fact that scientists and scholars were now much in demand as pictorial motifs. Here is an example. Johannes Vermeer, the famous “fine painter” of ...
After receiving a camera as a gift from her daughter, Julia Margaret Cameron began her career in photography at the age of forty-eight. She produced most of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Many of her models were family members, (including her husband and grandson), her do...
Portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (1527) is a artwork (Oil and tempera on oak) by the German painter and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger. The painting (82 × 67 cm) is in the Louvre, Paris.
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