Among the most celebrated achievements of 17th-century Spanish art is Francisco de Zurbarán’s series “Jacob and His Twelve Sons”, a striking collection of thirteen life-size paintings depicting the patriarch Jacob …
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Introduction & Context Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), often simply L. S. Lowry, is celebrated as Britain’s most distinctive interpreter of industrial northern life. Known for his “matchstick” figures amidst smokestacks and factories, …
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An Exploration of Surrealism, Spirituality, and Revolutionary Vision Salvador Dalí’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) is one of the most iconic and evocative religious paintings of the …