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- Title
- Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
- Artist
- Taddeo Zuccaro
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1529 - 1566)
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1564
- Accession Number
- 1966/1.93
- Medium and Support
- pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper
- relevance
- rank 6.18780
- Secondary Keywords
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- drawing and drawing techniques
- drawings
- drawings by function
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- image-making processes and techniques
- italy (nation)
- lazio (region)
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- roma (province)
- symbolism
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Esther before Ahasuerus
- Artist
- Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
- Physical Description
- A seated king, at the left, holds the hand of a swooning woman who is supported by another woman. The supporting woman looks back at the king.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1591-1666
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1639
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.41
- Medium and Support
- pen, brown ink and brown wash on cream colored laid paper
- relevance
- rank 6.07599
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- aristocracy
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- document genres
- document genres by function
- figures
- groups of people
- information forms
- monarchs
- nobility
- objects
- objects we use
- old testament
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by occupation
- people in government and administration
- political figures
- religious texts
- rulers (people)
- social classes
- social classes by specific type
- social groups
- symbolism
- upper class
- Title
- L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music)
- Artist
- Charles Joseph Natoire
- Physical Description
- Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1700-1777
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1746
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.81
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- relevance
- rank 5.69604
- Secondary Keywords
- bowed
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- arts
- arts and related disciplines
- associated concepts
- chordophones
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- design elements
- disciplines
- fiddles
- figure- and animal-derived motifs
- genres in the arts
- humanities
- literary, oral and motion picture genres
- lutelike chordophones
- motifs
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by material or technique
- people and culture
- performing arts
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- symbolism
- violin family instruments
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry
- Artist
- Sebastiano Conca
- Physical Description
- Two women accompanied by a pair of putti appear seated in the foreground of this painting. On the left sits a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a long white robe and a vivid ocher-colored mantle. She leans on a globe while cradling a large book in her right arm to which she points with her left hand. In her right hand she holds a compass. A putto peeks from beneath her mantle, and a viol is visible beneath the globe. The other woman sits on a cloud. She wears a golden crown and a richly colored blue mantle. She grasps a lyre with her left hand and leans toward the woman seated next to her, gesturing in the direction of the book with her right hand. A second putto stands near her left shoulder holding a gold circlet in his left hand. The background is filled with glimpses of neoclassical architecture, including fluted columns and a facade with a row of Ionic columns supporting an entablature.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1680 - 1764
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.159
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 5.59774
- Secondary Keywords
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- chordophones
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- design elements
- drafting, drawing and writing equipment
- drafting, drawing and writing equipment by specific type
- equipment
- equipment by process
- figure- and animal-derived motifs
- image-making equipment
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- motifs
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by material or technique
- people and culture
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
- symbolism
- tools and equipment
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- The Alliance of Peace and Abundance
- Artist
- Bartolomeo Coriolano
- Physical Description
- Two women in long robes stand arm in arm in a landscape. One figure holds an olive branch in her right hand, and her companion cradles a cornucopia against her hip.
- Artist Life Dates
- (ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1642
- Accession Number
- 1970/1.178
- Medium and Support
- chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 5.48476
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- culture and related concepts
- culture-related concepts
- descriptors
- hardwood
- materials
- materials by origin
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- plant material
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- relief prints
- symbolism
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- wood (plant material)
- wood and wood products
- wood by composition or origin
- woodcuts
- Title
- La Justice Protégé les Arts
- Artist
- Gilles Demarteau
- Physical Description
- This crayon-manner engraving printed in sanguine depicts a grouping of figures arranged in a celestial space and positioned against clouds. A large female figure draped in cloth dominates the upper portion of the composition. She holds a set of scales in her left hand. Two female figures, one clothed, one nude, gather below at this figure’s sandaled feet in the center left of the composition. The clothed figure holds a palette and paintbrushes while the nude figure holds a mallet and a sculpted portrait of a man’s face. At the bottom right three male figures, one of whom wrestles a snake, appear to be attacking the female figure holding the palette. A clothed figure donning a helmet protects the figure holding the scales in the upper right.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1729-1776
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1763-1767
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.182
- Medium and Support
- crayon-manner engraving, printed in sanguine on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 5.34862
- Secondary Keywords
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- judges
- measuring devices
- measuring devices for forces
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in law
- people in social science-related occupations
- people in the social sciences and related occupations
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- symbolism
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- weighing devices
- weighing devices by form
- Title
- Genji espies Murasaki for the first time, from the Wakamurasaki chapter of The Tale of Genji
- Artist
- Kanô Tsunenobu
- Physical Description
- Among a gold and bright mineral pigmented landscape, Genji stands below a cherry tree in full bloom and watches Murasaki, who stands in an architectural structure. A distant stream and hilltops indicate the isolated setting.
- Artist Life Dates
- active 1636-1713
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1670-1680
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.168
- Medium and Support
- ink, color, and gold pigment and foil on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.11552
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- allegory and literature
- architecture
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- business and industry
- concepts in the arts
- deciduous trees
- descriptors
- document genres
- gold and gold alloy
- houses
- information forms
- inorganic material
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- metal
- metal and metal products
- metal by composition or origin
- mine
- natural landscapes
- nonferrous metal
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- plants
- riverine bodies
- settlements and landscapes
- symbolism
- the natural world
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Title
- Flora
- Artist
- Richard James Wyatt
- Physical Description
- White marble sculpture of female figure, partially nude with a cloth draped loosely around her waist and over her left forearm. She holds a cluster of flowers in her left hand, and a single bloom in her right; a basket of flowers located on base to left and slightly behind figure.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1795 - 1850
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1850
- Accession Number
- 1931.17
- Medium and Support
- marble
- relevance
- rank 5.10209
- Secondary Keywords
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- concepts in the arts
- european
- european styles and periods
- figures
- figures (representations)
- genres
- genres in the arts
- herbaceous plants
- landscapes (environments)
- literary, oral and motion picture genres
- modern european styles and movements
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- plants
- sculpture by subject type
- settlements and landscapes
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- symbolism
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- woody plants
- Title
- Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
- Artist
- Randolph Rogers
- Physical Description
- A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1825-1892
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1861
- Accession Number
- 1862.1
- Medium and Support
- Carrara marble
- relevance
- rank 4.01921
- Secondary Keywords
- aegean
- aegean architecture styles
- aegean styles
- allegory and literature
- architectural elements
- artistic concepts
- artistic devices
- associated concepts
- campania (region)
- capitals and capital components
- card, table and board game elements
- child
- column components
- columns and column components
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- early western world
- equipment
- equipment by context
- equipment for personal use
- europe
- europe (continent)
- european
- european styles and periods
- exceptional people
- figures
- game pieces
- genres in the arts
- geographic and political locations
- handicapped
- iconography
- inorganic material
- italy
- italy (nation)
- literary, oral and motion picture genres
- locality
- materials
- materials by composition
- mediterranean
- modern european styles and movements
- napoli (province)
- objects
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by gender
- people by state or condition
- physically handicapped
- recreational artifacts
- recreational artifacts for competitive activities
- rock
- rock by form
- sculpture by subject type
- structural elements
- structural elements and structural element components
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- supporting and resisting elements
- symbolism
- tools and equipment
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- walking sticks