With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

The figure of the man dominates the foreground. The figure is dressed in dark orange with black lapels and shirt front, his skin tone is green, black shadows highlight beneath the eyes and right side ...

Cézanne’s fascination with the complexities of human perception and his desire to transcribe the abstract properties of vision established him as the central figure linking nineteenth-century ...

Against a medium dark brown background, monochrome tan brushstrokes depict a nude adolescent male crouching on the ground. Leaning forward on his arms, he looks ahead to the left and away from the ...

At left, in the middle distance a small girl with pale skin and long blonde hair wears a long white dress. She kneels facing left, in a grassy field dotted with sheep, looking up at a small cross tied ...

On a black and white tiered plinth and nude man stands in contrapposto. One hand is on his hip and the other is raised as if in greeting or salute. He looks in the direction of his raised arm and ...

This is a figure made out of dark metal with mottled green discoloration on the surface. The upper half of the figure is a human male, with both arms straight up above the figures head. The arms are ...

A drawing of a naked young man with short hair standing outside on a rocky shore. His head is lolled over on his left shoulder and his right arm is raised with his palm outstretched. His left arm is ...

Monet painted this composition at the end of a decade marked by the impressionists’ sustained experimentation with still-life painting. His depiction of this pair of common fish is indebted to the ...

At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a man facing right, wearing the skin from an elephant's head, trunk turned up and tusks protruding out, small dots surround the border. The other ...

On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing left, tendrils of curly hair held in place by a laurel wreath; surrounding the border, the Latin characters: N E R O / C L A V D I V S / C A ...