1963.58.FA Paul Gaugin, Under the Pandanus (I Raro te Oviri)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In his mid-thirties, Paul Gauguin abandoned his life as a stockbroker to become an artist.
1963.80.FA Odilon Redon, Initiation to Study—Two Young Ladies
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Symbolist painter Odilon Redon was a contemporary of Claude Monet and other Impressionists; however, his artistic aim
1963.101.FA Auguste Rodin, The Sculptor and His Muse
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The lithe form of the woman bends seductively over the hunched body of the man, draping her long
1963.159.6.FA Jacques Callot, Devastation of a Monastery
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This etching is part of The Miseries and Misfortunes of War series, a collection of etchings created by Jacques Callot during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), a religious conflict that involved the major powers in Europe and led to mass carnage and the destruction of several European towns
1964.23 Hans Sebald Beham, Trajan's Justice
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This small engraving presents a legendary episode in the life of the ancient Roman emperor Trajan.
1967.20 Jacques Lipchitz, The Bather
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This sculpture is an assemblage of distinct and reductive elements, an interplay of concave and convex forms.
1975.72 Bacchiacca, Madonna and Child with St. John
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This devotional panel by Bacchiacca, a leading artist at the court of the Medici in Florence, has the quintessential elements of Mannerism, an artistic style that originated in early 16th century Italy which valued artistic invention and elegance over the imitation of nature. Here, the proportions of the Virgin have been gracefully elongated and the colors of her clothes are especially vivid.
1940.1 William Blake, When the Almighty was yet with me, When my Children were about me
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In his series
1985.R.894.1.A-B, Salt cellar, porcelain, 18th century
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the late 17th century, aristocratic European taste moved away from imported blue and white porcelains, and people were willing to pay more for the polychrome enamels exported to Jingdezhen.
1993.86.25.1.FA Vase (one of a pair)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Kawade Shibataro was the chief artist at the Ando Jubei company. A versatile man, he perfected the "moriage" technique in which enamel is built up in relief on the surface to give the decoration a sense of depth, as seen here.