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Standout paintings from 90 minutes at the MET:
The Conversion of St. Paul (1456)
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (1465)
The Transformation of the Holy House of Loreto (1490)
The Adoration of the Christ Child (1515)
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underword (1630s)
Pilate Washing His Hands (1663)
Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge (1745)
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There are two key differences that distinguish Leonardo’s version of Vitruvian Man from those done around the same time by his two friends, Francesco di Giorgio and Giacomo Andrea. In both scientific precision and artistic distinction, Leonardo’s is in an entirely different realm (fig. 44). Rarely on display, because prolonged exposure to light wou
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects: Illustrated - Biographies of the Greatest Artists of Renaissance, Including Leonardo da ... Giotto, Raphael, Brunelleschi & Donatello
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Painted in oil on a walnut panel, the portrait of Cecilia, now known as Lady with an Ermine, was so innovative, so emotionally charged and alive, that it helped to transform the art of portraiture. The twentieth-century art historian John Pope-Hennessy called it the “first modern portrait” and “the first painting in European art to introduce the id
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Fontainebleau - #AAE200048 | May 2020, Oil on Canvas | 76 x 61.5 x 2 cm
Fairfield Porter - Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935–1975
LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS (ILLUSTRATED): ALL TEN VOLUMES
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