The faintest golden halo miraculously surrounds her head. There is also a sheer translucent ribbon elegantly flowing across the top of her dress and behind her head. She is sitting comfortably on a wooden bench, and across her lap is a dark blue drapery upon which her right hand delicately rests.
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The composition is centered on the seated Madonna in a bright red dress she is shown with fair skin and blonde hair. It was painted around 1505 during the middle of the High Renaissance. The “Small Cowper Madonna” is a painting by Raphael, depicting Mary and Child in the 1500’s Italian countryside. Her face and dress are lit from the front.įragonard used fine brushwork on the face and looser brushwork on the dress and cushion and the ruff, which was scratched into the paint with the end of a brush. The girl is reading from a small book held, and a cushion resting against a wall supports her back. “A Young Girl Reading” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts a girl in profile wearing a lemon yellow dress with a white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons. “A Young Girl Reading” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard Her gaze, although forward, seems indifferent to the viewer. Ginevra is shown beautiful but reserved with no hint of a smile. The juniper bush that fills much of the background was regarded as a symbol of female virtue, in Renaissance Italy, while the Italian word for juniper, echo’s Ginevra’s name. Leonardo painted the portrait in Florence in 1474 to commemorate Ginevra’s marriage at the age of 16. Ginevra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci depicts a well-known young Florentine aristocrat. Highlights Tour of the National Gallery of Art “Ginevra de’ Benci” by Leonardo da Vinci “Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White” by John Singer Sargent.“The House Maid” by William McGregor Paxton.“The Washington Family” by Edward Savage.“Tale of Creation” – “Genesis II” by Franz Marc.“A Lady Writing a Letter” by Johannes Vermeer.“Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son” by Claude Monet.“Street in Venice” by John Singer Sargent.“Farmhouse in Provence” by Vincent van Gogh.“Both Members of This Club” by George Bellows.“Christ at the Sea of Galilee” by Circle of Tintoretto.Masterpieces of the National Gallery of Art.“ The Equatorial Jungle” by Henri Rousseau.“ The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna” by Raphael.“ Skiffs on the Yerres” by Gustave Caillebotte.A Princess of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
A Prince of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder.“Self-Portrait” by John Singleton Copley.
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It is one of the largest museums in North America and is open to the public and free of charge. The Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art. The Gallery’s campus includes the original neoclassical West Building, which is linked underground to the modern East Building and the 6.1-acre (25,000 m2) Sculpture Garden. The Gallery’s collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The museum was originally privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. The National Gallery of Art and its attached Sculpture Garden is the national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall. National Gallery of Art, DC – Virtual Tour
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