Who painted 'Man in a Golden Helmet', in 1550 and 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' in 1653?
"view at the Metropolitan. The piece was bought or commissioned by Antonio Ruffo, a Sicilian nobleman and art collector, who later also owned ""Aristotle with a Bust of Homer"" by Rembrandt, which he commissioned in 1653. In recent years, using the technique of radiography based on neutron emission, it has been discovered that for this particular painting, van Dyck re-used a canvas which had previously borne a sketch for a self-portrait. The saint's remains (she died around 1160) were said to have been found on Mount Pellegrino on 15 July 1624, the same year as the painting was executed. Saint"
"The Apotheosis of Homer (Ingres) The Apotheosis of Homer is a grand 1827 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now exhibited at the Louvre as INV 5417. The symmetrical composition depicts Homer being crowned by a winged figure personifying Victory or the Universe. Forty-four additional figures pay homage to the poet in a kind of classical confession of faith. A state commission to decorate a ceiling of the musée Charles X at the Louvre (now the ancient Egyptian galleries), it formed part of a renovation project commissioned by Charles X to have himself remembered in the grand tradition of Bourbon building works"
"stored art treasures were shown, such as the bust of Nefertiti or the painting The Man with the Golden Helmet, which was attributed to Rembrandt at the time. After their return, a collection was rebuilt from the 1950s onwards with very few resources. Clemens Weiler played a major role in the construction of the Alexej von Jawlensky-Collection, which is today the most important collection of the house. The Natural Science Museum was largely rebuilt by Friedrich Heineck, who was impeached of office during the war. It was the aim of the museum to show in particular info on the biomes"
"come to London to be with Hunt. Hunt wrote an outraged letter to Dickens, who claimed to be unaware that the story was based on real events. Brian Aldiss used the painting as a leitmotif in his novel ""Report on Probability A"". The Hireling Shepherd The Hireling Shepherd (1851) is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. It represents a shepherd neglecting his flock in favour of an attractive country girl to whom he shows a death's-head hawkmoth. The meaning of the image has been much debated. Hunt painted the picture when he was living and working in"
"A Basket of Clams (Winslow Homer) A Basket of Clams is a mid-19th century watercolor painting by American artist Winslow Homer in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. The work, which was one of several Homer painted in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, depicts two children carrying a basket of clams as they walk along the beach. It is typical of the vigorous layout and light of Homer's early watercolors, reminiscent of his earlier career as an illustrator. It was notably the earliest watercolor by Homer to be acquired by the Metropolitan Museum and"
"The Scapegoat (painting) The Scapegoat (1854–56) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the ""scapegoat"" described in the Book of Leviticus. On the Day of Atonement, a goat would have its horns wrapped with a red cloth – representing the sins of the community – and be driven off. Hunt started painting on the shore of the Dead Sea, and continued it in his studio in London. The work exists in two versions, a small version in brighter colours with a dark-haired goat and a rainbow, in Manchester Art Gallery, and a larger version in more muted tones"
"of the National Gallery of Art in 1939 and was involved in identifying works of art looted by the Nazis following World War II. In 1956 he was named director of the National Gallery, succeeding David E. Finley Jr., and remained in the position until his retirement in 1969. During his tenure at the gallery, Walker cultivated donor relationships with collectors such as the Mellon family, Joseph Widener, Armand Hammer, and Chester Dale; his significant acquisitions included Rembrandt's ""Aristotle with the Bust of Homer"", Fragonard's ""La Liseuse"", El Greco's ""Laocoon"", and the ""Ginevra de' Benci"" by Leonardo da Vinci. Walker"
"painting (it is strongly inspired by the Italian artist's ""Parnassus"") and Raphael is to be seen top left (in black and white Renaissance dress), being led by Apelles (in a blue cloak). Other figures shown include Dante who is shown being led by Virgil as in the former's ""Divine Comedy"" (extreme left, behind Poussin) and Molière (right, by the feet of the personification of the ""Odyssey""). The art historian Robert Rosenblum said ""The Apotheosis of Homer"" represents ""Ingres' most doctrinaire statement of his belief in a hierarchy of timeless values that are based on classical precedent."" It is highly successful"
"speculated that the portrait may be of Edmund Butts, the brother of the William Butts whom Bettes painted. Both were sons of William Butts, a court physician whose portrait Holbein painted in 1543. John Bettes the Elder John Bettes the Elder (active ""c."" 1531–1570) was an English artist whose few known paintings date from between about 1543 and 1550. His most famous work is his ""Portrait of a Man in a Black Cap"". His son John Bettes the Younger, with whom he is sometimes confused, was a pupil of Nicholas Hilliard who painted portraits during the reign of Elizabeth I"
"was the gift of Arthur G. Altschul in 1995. It is currently (2018) not on view. A Basket of Clams (Winslow Homer) A Basket of Clams is a mid-19th century watercolor painting by American artist Winslow Homer in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. The work, which was one of several Homer painted in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, depicts two children carrying a basket of clams as they walk along the beach. It is typical of the vigorous layout and light of Homer's early watercolors, reminiscent of his earlier career as an illustrator."
"John Bettes the Elder John Bettes the Elder (active ""c."" 1531–1570) was an English artist whose few known paintings date from between about 1543 and 1550. His most famous work is his ""Portrait of a Man in a Black Cap"". His son John Bettes the Younger, with whom he is sometimes confused, was a pupil of Nicholas Hilliard who painted portraits during the reign of Elizabeth I and James I. Nothing is known of John Bettes's life, except that he was living in Westminster in 1556, according to a documented court case. He is first recorded as working for Henry"
"Project scholar Ernst van de Wetering (Melbourne Symposium, 1997) both arguing for attribution to the master. Those few scholars who still question Rembrandt's authorship feel that the execution is uneven, and favour different attributions for different parts of the work. A similar issue was raised by Simon Schama in his book ""Rembrandt's Eyes"" concerning the verification of titles associated with the subject matter depicted in Rembrandt's works. For example, the exact subject being portrayed in ""Aristotle with a Bust of Homer"" (recently retitled by curators at the Metropolitan Museum) has been directly challenged by Schama applying the scholarship of Paul"
"Head of Christ (Rembrandt, New York) Head of Christ is a 1650s painting by Rembrandt's workshop. It shows Christ with a beard and long dark hair. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt created several similar heads in varying poses, possibly as devotional objects. Today about a dozen are known. This one came into the collection via the Isaac D. Fletcher bequest. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1914, who wrote; ""160. HEAD OF CHRIST. Bode 295 ; Dut. 78 ; Wb. 301 ; B.-HdG. 414. Long dark curls, a short full"
"21, 2011 – February 12, 2012, no. 46. Head of Christ (Rembrandt, New York) Head of Christ is a 1650s painting by Rembrandt's workshop. It shows Christ with a beard and long dark hair. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt created several similar heads in varying poses, possibly as devotional objects. Today about a dozen are known. This one came into the collection via the Isaac D. Fletcher bequest. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1914, who wrote; ""160. HEAD OF CHRIST. Bode 295 ; Dut. 78 ; Wb. 301 ;"
"The Apotheosis of Homer The Apotheosis of Homer is a common scene in classical and neo-classical art, showing the poet Homer's apotheosis or elevation to divine status. Homer was the subject of a number of formal hero cults in classical antiquity. The earliest notable portrayal of the scene is a 3rd-century BC marble relief by Archelaus of Priene, now in the British Museum. It was found in Italy, probably in 1658, but is thought to have been sculpted in Egypt. It shows Ptolemy and his wife or sister Arsinoe III standing beside a seated poet, flanked by figures from the"
"the 18th century as showing this scene), Ingres and Salvador Dalí survive. A literary treatment of this subject was given by the German poet Leopold Schefer, 1858: ""Homer’s Apotheose"", his very last publication, itself a hexametric epos. The Apotheosis of Homer The Apotheosis of Homer is a common scene in classical and neo-classical art, showing the poet Homer's apotheosis or elevation to divine status. Homer was the subject of a number of formal hero cults in classical antiquity. The earliest notable portrayal of the scene is a 3rd-century BC marble relief by Archelaus of Priene, now in the British Museum."
"who gave it to the Metropolitan Museum. Northeaster (painting) Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer. Like ""The Fog Warning"" and ""Breezing Up"", he created it during his time in Maine. It is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Viewers are presented a struggle of elements between the sea and the rocky shore. Winslow Homer excelled in painting landscape paintings that depicted seascapes and mountain scenery. After extensive travel, Homer settled in Prouts Neck, Maine. He had a studio built for him, which was completed in"
"Chairman of the Art History Department from 1966 until 1981 and again from 1986 until 1993. He retired from the department in January 2000 and holds a professor Emiritus position with the university. Homer authored numerous books and articles, including ""Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde"", ""Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams"", ""Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art"", and ""The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins"". He has also served as a consultant for various exhibitions and film projects. Homer died on July 8, 2012. William Innes Homer William Innes Homer (November 8, 1929 - July 8, 2012) was an American"
"early fifties, Bloom produced a second, very different, series of cadaver images. Paintings such as ""The Hull"" (1952), ""The Anatomist"" (1953), and ""Butchered Animal"" (1953) depict dissected corpses and amputated limbs. Some critics have suggested that these images arose from Bloom's exposure to pogroms in his home country, and later, reports of the Holocaust. According to Bloom, his concern ""was the complexity and color beauty of the internal works, the curiosity, the wonder, and the feeling of transgressing boundaries, which such curiosity evokes."" Whatever else may have motivated him, Bloom had an artist's appreciation for color and surface texture, and"
"of Art, New York City ""Saint Jerome in Penitence -"" National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ""Christ Carrying the Cross"" (c. 1503, oil/wood); ""The Incident in the Story of the Vestal Claudia"" (tempera/wood), ""The Marriage of Antiochus and Stratonice"" (c. 1490-1495, tempera/wood), ""The Virgin and Child"" (c. 1480-1489, tempera/wood) ""-"" Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - University of Oxford, Oxford ""Ecce Homo"" (c. 1500, oil/wood); ""Three Children Playing Musical Instruments -"" Louvre, Paris ""Adoration of the Child Jesus -"" Strasbourg ""Landscape with Castle"" (c. 1495-1505, oil/wood) ""-"" National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo ""Jesus between Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian"";"
"costume, holding a skull with a draped cloak over the chest, is similar to at least four other known paintings: Young Man with a Skull Young Man with a Skull is a c.1626 painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, now in the National Gallery, London. The painting was previously thought to be a depiction of Shakespeare's Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, but is now considered to be a vanitas, a reminder of the precarious nature of life and the inevitability of death. The painting shows a young man wearing a feathered red bonnet and swathed with"
"The Fog Warning The Fog Warning is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Together with ""The Herring Net"" and ""Breezing Up"", painted the same year and also depicting the hard lives of fishermen in Maine, it is considered among his best works on such topics. After initially making his reputation with paintings on themes related to the Civil War, in the late 1860s and through the 1870s Winslow Homer turned instead to painting people relaxing and at play: children, young women, genre paintings of farm and sea scenes. In 1881–82 he"
"Head of a Woman (Leonardo) The Head of a Womanalso known as La Scapigliata is a painting in oil on wood by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, dating from perhaps around 1500 and housed in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma, Italy. The work is a finished painting, mentioned for the first time in the House of Gonzaga collection in 1627. It was created in the art period high renaissance. It is perhaps the same work that Ippolito Calandra, in 1531, suggested to hang in the bedroom of Margaret Paleologa, wife of Federico II Gonzaga. In 1501, the marquesses"
"the slave trade and afterwards. The painting is referenced in Derek Walcott's ""Omeros"", where the poem's narrator encounters the work on a visit to an unnamed museum and identifies the man in the painting with his character, Achille, referring to the painter as 'another Homer'. The painting is also referenced in the film Good Will Hunting when the protagonist, Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), identifies a painting in his therapist's office as a ""Winslow Homer rip-off, except you got whitey rowing the boat there."" The Gulf Stream (painting) The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by Winslow Homer."
"Office released a commemorative stamp honoring Winslow Homer. Homer's famous oil painting ""Breezing Up"", now hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC, was chosen as the image for the design of this issue. On August 12, 2010, The Postal Service issued a 44-cent commemorative stamp featuring Homer's ""Boys in a Pasture"" at the APS Stamp Show in Richmond, Virginia. This stamp was the ninth to be issued in a series entitled ""American Treasures"". The original painting is part of the Hayden Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It depicts two boys from Belmont, Massachusetts—John Carney and"
"largest painting, and it was immediately purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, his first painting in a major American museum collection. In ""Huntsman and Dogs"" (1891), a lone, impassive hunter, with his yelping dogs at his side, heads home after a hunt with deer skins slung over his right shoulder. Another late work, ""The Gulf Stream"" (1899), shows a black sailor adrift in a damaged boat, surrounded by sharks and an impending maelstrom. By 1900, Homer finally reached financial stability, as his paintings fetched good prices from museums and he began to receive rents from real estate"
"1882 in the village of Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, his paintings depicting shores and coastal landscapes changed. Many of the paintings from the English coast have as subjects working men and women from the area. Winslow Homer Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized"
"William Innes Homer William Innes Homer (November 8, 1929 - July 8, 2012) was an American academic, art historian, and author. Homer was an expert in the life and works of painter Thomas Eakins. Homer received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1951. From Harvard University, Homer received his M.A. in 1954 and his Ph.D. in 1961. In 1961, Homer was hired as an assistant professor in the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton. In 1964, he became an associate professor of Art History at Cornell University. In 1966, Homer came to the University of Delaware where he served as"
"of other winter scenes is not remarkable. The famous winter landscape paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, such as ""The Hunters in the Snow"", are all thought to have been painted in 1565. His son Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638) also painted many snowy landscapes, but according to Burroughs, he ""slavishly copied his father's designs. The derivative nature of so much of this work makes it difficult to draw any definite conclusions about the influence of the winters between 1570 and 1600..."". Burroughs says that snowy subjects return to Dutch Golden Age painting with works by Hendrick Avercamp from 1609"
"portraits, such as the portrait of Paulus de Nigro (), ""Man weighing gold"" (1515–1520) () and ""Young Man with a Rosary"" (). These portraits, even if they are stereotypical and lifeless, are executed with a soft touch and sfumato effect in the contours. The influence of the Italian Renaissance can be seen in the detailed addition of fashionable scenery elements such as volutes, antique pillars and ram's heads, such as in his painting of the ""Mass of Saint Gregory the Great"" (). and ""Mary and Child"" (1520–1530) (). Through these elements he may be regarded as a precursor of the"
"They consist of six frescoes, representing ""The Tower of Babel"", ""Homer and the Greeks"", ""The Destruction of Jerusalem"", ""The Battle of the Huns"" ( – a painting that inspired the 1857 symphonic poem ""Hunnenschlacht"" by Liszt), ""The Crusaders at the gates of Jerusalem"", and ""The Age of the Reformation"". "" The Destruction of Jerusalem"" was a copy of an earlier oil painting, much admired by Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, which was by then already in the collection of Ludwig I of Bavaria. These major tableaux, severally 30 feet long, and each comprising over one hundred figures above life-size, were"
"Northeaster (painting) Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer. Like ""The Fog Warning"" and ""Breezing Up"", he created it during his time in Maine. It is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Viewers are presented a struggle of elements between the sea and the rocky shore. Winslow Homer excelled in painting landscape paintings that depicted seascapes and mountain scenery. After extensive travel, Homer settled in Prouts Neck, Maine. He had a studio built for him, which was completed in 1884, and painted marine subjects, including the"
"the hounds // here is the single fox I have killed will you wear it around your shoulders are you ashamed."" American Author Don Delillo references Bruegel's painting ""The Triumph of Death"" in his novel ""Underworld"" and his short story ""Pafko at the Wall"". It is believed that the painting ""The Hunters in the Snow"" influenced the classic short story with the same title written by Tobias Wolff and featured in ""In the Garden of the North American Martyrs"". Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel) the Elder (; c. 1525-1530 – 9 September 1569) was the most significant"