Art

Jean Bellegambe identified Saint Catherine through the sword and broken wheel of her martyrdom, then dressed her in courtly fashions familiar to viewers around 1520.

Peter Paul Rubens depicted Francis of Assisi with the pierced hand associated with the saint’s stigmata. A restrained pose and meditative gaze give the commissioned panel the immediacy of a portrait.

Jean Bellegambe placed Saint Barbara before the tower from her legend and dressed her in fashionable court clothing, joining sacred memory to the visual world of about 1520.

Look closely at Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath. A portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood.

Look closely at Springtime and Love. A painting of a large group of people having a picnic on a seaside cliff.

Look closely at Anne-Sophie Herbert, Comtess de Carnarvon. Detailed bust of a light-skinned woman with a double chin, small, wide-set eyes, and tight ringlets wearing a low-cut dress with puff sleeves.

Daniel Chester French made this half-size plaster model while designing Truth for the Minnesota State Capitol. The surviving studio object reveals how an abstract civic ideal was prepared for a public building and then enlarged in marble.

Look closely at Saint Jerome. Engraving of a old man with a long beard, wearing only a cloth draped around one shoulder, bending over a table with books, a quill pen and ink, a skull, and glasses.

Look closely at Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884". Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank.

Look closely at Beata Beatrix. Serene red-haired woman, framed with allegorical symbols of red bird, sundial.

Look closely at Platter. Porcelain oval platter with molded scalloped edge lavishly decorated with white floral pattern with colorful elements.

Look closely at Saint James the Greater. Etching of a strong male figure with their face in profile, wearing a cloak and hat and grasping a very tall staff.

Look closely at Cupid Chastised. Large painting of cupid being whipped, a woman tries to hold back the a man in red dress.

Aimé-Jules Dalou modeled Bacchus awakening the abandoned Ariadne, with a faun offering grapes beside them. This plaster group appeared at the Paris Salon in 1892 and became the model for a marble version.

Look closely at Chrysanthemums. Orange, yellow, and white flowers in a brown vase on a round table, with a blue-green floral tablecloth and mottled, brownish background.

Look closely at Tarquin and Lucretia. A light-skinned nude woman, center, struggles while a light-skinned nude man, top left, violently pulls white translucent fabric off of her.

Henri Edmond Cross moved to the Côte d’Azur in 1891 because of rheumatoid arthritis. On the Mediterranean coast he adopted small separated marks and planned tonal gradations to convey the region’s color and heat.

Look closely at Icebound. Winter landscape painting with rocky stream lined by orange leafed trees.

Look closely at Shukongojin. A wooden sculpture of a muscular red figure with flaming hair and a third eye, stares fiercely down at us.

Look closely at Isabella Wolff. A light-skinned woman in a long, shiny white dress sits at a desk reading a book.

Look closely at Man with Lance Riding through the Snow. A hunched figure on horseback holds a thin shaft as he makes his way through windy, snowy weather suggested by strokes of white, gray, and brown.

Look closely at The Nativity. A light-skinned man in red and woman in blue sit with an infant between them, angels beside and above them, a small town in the background.

This silver denarius places Hadrian’s right-facing portrait on the obverse and a modius filled with grain on the reverse. Minted in Rome late in his reign, it joins an imperial likeness to an image of measured provision.

Look closely at A1: Massachusetts Living Room and Kitchen, 1675–1700. Miniature of a cozy living room and kitchen in rich maple-colored wood tones, hardwood floors and wood paneling on the walls, a large brick fireplace and stove on the right.