STEVE EMBER:
The Spanish painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez made an interesting painting of his assistant in sixteen fifty. The artist captured Juan de Pareja’s intense look with great skill. When this painting was first shown to the public, one critic wrote that all other works were paintings, but this one represented truth.
One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument. The colorful painting is called “Mezzetin.” This artist is most famous for painting sensual actors and dancers. He was influenced by Italian theater traditions of the late sixteen hundreds.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH:
The English painter J.M.W. Turner painted “Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute” around eighteen thirty-five. His specialty was representing the effect of light on an environment with color and loose brushstrokes.
Turner’s awareness of changing light would also interest a group of nineteenth century artists known as the Impressionists. The Met’s collection of Impressionist works includes paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir.
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STEVE EMBER:
The area of the museum known as the American Wing contains fine examples of American art, sculpture, glass, silver and other design objects. There are also twenty historical rooms which show different periods of American building and furniture design.
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