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The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries

Avatar photo by Natasha Seaman December 2, 2017December 1, 2017

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.

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The Vivacious Presence of Parrots in Dutch Golden Age Painting

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 17, 2017November 19, 2017

An art historian, and African Grey owner, delved into the avian symbolism in Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting at the National Gallery of Art.

The façade of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (photo by Alvesgaspar, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Noose Found Outside Washington’s National Gallery of Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 19, 2017June 19, 2017

The racist symbol was found hanging from a lamppost outside the institution on the National Mall.

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Piecing Together the Histories of a Series of Stolen Paintings

Avatar photo by Menachem Wecker May 17, 2017May 17, 2017

Among all the descriptions on all the different museum websites of a group of paintings originally designed to be shown together, there isn’t very much in the way of assuming responsibility or prioritizing transparency.

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Della Robbia’s Gloriously Colorful Renaissance Sculptures

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 9, 2017May 8, 2017

The National Gallery of Art explores the radical inventiveness of the della Robbia family, the clay and color masters of the Italian Renaissance.

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Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 21, 2017March 22, 2017

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.

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How Art Criticism Emerged from the Catalogues of the Paris Salons

by Tausif Noor September 9, 2016

Washington, DC — “Words could not express what an agreeable spectacle this was for me to see all at one time such a prodigious quantity of every kind of work,” wrote Jean Rou in his Mémoires inédits et opuscules.

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Sexy, Satin Surfaces: Paintings from the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age

Avatar photo by Natasha Seaman June 6, 2015June 6, 2015

On its own, a painting by Joachim Wtewael can seem like a two-dimensional manifestation of an absurdly complex gâteau – gorgeous, delicious, but perhaps best taken in in small servings.

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Richest Gathering of Hellenistic Bronzes in Centuries Goes on Tour

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 19, 2015March 23, 2015

In Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, opened last week at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi, more Greek bronzes are assembled than ever before in the modern age.

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A Photographic Window onto 19th-Century Burma and India

by Becca Rothfeld December 24, 2014December 24, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC — Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma 1852–1860, on display in the National Gallery of Art through January 4, showcases some of the earliest photographs of India and Burma.

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Idyllic, Depression-Era Watercolors of American Design

by Julia Friedman December 23, 2014December 23, 2014

In 2013, the National Gallery of Art began digitizing their enormous collection of roughly 18,000 watercolors from the Index of American Design.

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Finding Refuge in Wyeth’s Windows

by Laura C. Mallonee November 12, 2014November 11, 2014

Over the course of his career, the 20th century American artist Andrew Wyeth created 300 drawings and paintings of windows that are more about the people looking out them than the views they depict.

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Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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