Sandro Botticelli The Birth Of Venus

October 4, 2014 | Art Gallery

Sandro Botticelli The Birth Of Venus (1486)

The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de’ Medici, close friend to Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

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Maxfield Parrish Morning Spring

July 26, 2015 | Art Gallery

Maxfield Parrish Morning, Spring
1922 Vintage Fine Art Painting
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began drawing for his own amusement as a child. His father was an engraver and landscape artist, and young Parrish’s parents encouraged his talent. He attended Haverford College and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He entered into an artistic career that lasted for more than half a century, and which helped shape the Golden Age of illustration and the future of American visual arts.

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Johannes Janson A Formal Garden

September 30, 2014 | Art Gallery

Johannes Janson A Formal Garden (1766)

Johannes Janson is known for his idyllic landscapes filled with animals and village scenes. They were painted in the style of seventeenth-century Dutch artists such as Paulus Potter, whose paintings he copied. Many of Janson’s patrons were members of Leyden’s upper middle class who wanted a painted visual record of their formal gardens on canvas. Janson also made landscape etchings after his drawings. The estate shown here may have been located in the province of Noordholland, north of Amsterdam.

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Rembrandt The Night Watch

September 10, 2014 | Art Gallery

Rembrandt Van Rijn The Night Watch (1642)

The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting may be more properly titled by its long since forgotten name The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out. In the 18th century the painting became known as the Night Watch.The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings in the world.

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Adriaen Coorte Six Shells On A Stone Shelf

September 7, 2014 | Art Gallery

Adriaen Coorte Six Shells On A Stone Shelf (1696)

Adriaen Coorte was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707. He painted small and unpretentious still lifes in a style more typical of the first half of the century, and was “one of the last practitioners of this intimate category”.