The U.S. Capitol is the home of the legislative branch of the federal government. Pierre Charles L’Enfant in his design for Washington D.C. located the Capitol building on Jenkins Hill and placed a boulevard in front of it to link …
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John Russell Pope designed the National Gallery of Art building, completed in 1941. Also architect for the National Archives and Jefferson Memorial, Pope was a student of the Beaux-Arts school in Paris, and followed the neoclassical styles of the time. …
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) Self-Portrait (1659) Dutch Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) An Old Lady with a Book (1632) Dutch Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul (1657) Raphael (1483-1520) The Small Cowper Madonna (1505) Italian Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) The …
George Bellows (1882-1925) New York (1911) American, oil John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Repose (1911) American, oil Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924) Salem Cove (1916) American, oil Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (1876) American, oil Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Right …
Thomas Moran (1837-1926) Green River Cliffs, Wyoming (1881) American, oil Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) El Rio de Laz (1877) American, oil Thomas Cole (1801-1848) The Voyage of Life Manhood (1840) American, oil Thomas Cole (1801-1848) The Voyage of Life Old …
John Martin (1789-1854) Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (1816) British, oil Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace (1827) British, oil John Constable (1776 – 1837) Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (1820) British, oil Joseph …
Gerrit Berckheyde (16381698) A View of St. Bravos, Haarlem (1666) Dutch, oil Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) The Maas at Dordrecht (1660) Dutch, oil Jacob Van Ruisdael (1629-1682) Forest Scene (1665) Dutch, oil Jan Van Goyen (1596-1656) View of Dordrecht from the …
Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766) Autumn (1750) Italian, oil Gerhard David (1460-1623) The Saint Anne Altarpiece (1500) Netherlands, oil Sir Peter Paul Rubens Denprah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthasar Gerbier (1630), and Her Children (1577-1640) Flemish, oil Master of the Death of …
Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765) Interior of Saint Peters, Rome (1754) Roman, oil Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (1747) Venetia,n oil Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) Apollo Pursuing Daphne (1760), oil Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) The Fortress …
Canaletto (1597-1768) The Porta Portello, Padua (1742) Venetian, oil Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) Fanciful View of the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome (1785) Venetian, oil Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) Pirna, The Fortress of Sonnenstein (1760) Venerian, oil Domienichino (1581-1641) The Rebuke of Adam and …