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Devotion
Detail, Taj Mahal, built between 1631 and 1654, India Shah Jahan the emperor of the Mughal Empire built this monument to his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. This detail of a marble decorative frieze. Taj…
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Popular Subject
Susanna Fourment and her Daughter, 1621 by Anthony van Dyck, The National Gallery of Art. A popular subject – Susanna appears again in another 17th century court painting by Anthony van Dyck.
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Thicc
Portrait of Susanna Lunden or Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat), 1622-25 by Peter Paul Rubens, National Gallery, London. A portrait of Rubens’ sister-in-law, who was widowed by the time this was painted.…
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The scene so nice, it’s painted twice.
The Trappers Return, 1851 by George Caleb Bingham, Detroit Institute of Arts. Bingham made a living painting portraits early in his career as an artist, but eventually switched to genre paintings like this. In…
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Tethered
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845 by George Caleb Bingham, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bingham studied art in the US and in Europe, he lived in Missouri where his family had moved when…
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Scratching the Surface
The Prison, plate VII, c. 1760 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Piranesi was always very interested in architecture as his etchings prove. He set about recording the many great monuments and the architecture of Rome.
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Stacked
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery at Brussels, c. 1651 by David Teniers. We are so used to seeing large expanses of wall surrounding works of art, but that is really only a 20th…
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A Painting of Painting
Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife, 1889 by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York. Rather than the more formal portraits for which he is better known, in this piece we see a…
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Perspective
The Lamentation by Giotto di Bondone, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. The emotion and naturalism found in Giotto’s 14th century frescos are among the reasons he is considered one of the founders of modern painting and…
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