Saltimbanco after the Performance 1874
Louis Cretey is a highly individual exponent of one of the most anticlassical, non-conformist and eccentric expressions of Baroque painting.
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MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINTS JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JEROME 1516
With its spirited execution and prescient sense of eccentric Romanticism, this newly discovered canvas is a superb addition to the oeuvre of Johann Heinrich Schönfeld. Praised for his inventive history paintings and singularly refined style, Schönfeld was unquestionably one of the great artists of the German baroque.
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PRESENTATION OF MARY TO THE TEMPLE c.1653
This marble sculpture of Puck, the mischievous sprite from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, together with his companion figure of Will-o’-the-wisp, was the American artist Harriet Hosmer's most popular composition. Hosmer was one of the most successful female artists of the 19th century and spent most of her life living and working in Rome. There she was a leading figure in an important group of women artists known as the ‘sisterhood of American lady sculptors' who expressed their feminist and anti-slavery views through the neoclassical sculptures they produced.
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MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINTS JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JEROME 1516
THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW A BOZZETTO FOR THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW IN SAN MARCO EVANGELISTA AL CAMPIDOGLIO, ROME c.1743
A RECTANGULAR PIETRE DURE PLAQUE DEPICTING A PARROT ON A BRANCH