File:Joachim D. Patinir - Landscape with Representation of the Nativity.jpg

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Title: Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Nicolas Riabouchinsky Prince Golinicheff Koutousoff
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Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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(Panel)Height, 25^ inches; length, 36^4 inches Prominent in the foreground is an arched bridge with red parapets, on one of which a man sits reading a book.In the light of the other details he may he supposed tohe reading the prophecies of the Nativity, for this eventis depleted on the right of the composition. Throughan arched entrance two figures, one of them holding alamb, the other a lantern, are passing into a court, sur-rounded by buildings. Here upon a slah of stone liesthe Infant, whom the Virgin, S. Joseph and a shepherdare adoring, while the ox and ass stand at the back. Be-yond this enclosure appears an open space, lively withfigures and hounded by gabled houses and a church. Thebackground of Landscape displays a fascinating varietyof details; in the center, a vista of water, island andbridges, extending to a precipitous rock, hollowed withgrottoes and rising up in pinnacles, while on each sideis an expanse of water, with a roadway following thesinuous curves of the shore.
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No. 30PORTRAIT OF A MAN BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI Italian (Bergamo, Venetian Territory): About 1520—1578 No. 30—PORTRAIT OF A MAN (Canvas) Height, 31 ( ; inches; width, 29^ inches Against a dark golden-brown background, the half-length figure of a man of middle age is depicted, three-quarters to the left, while his eyes gaze to the front.The hands are shown near the bottom of the canvas;the right holding a gray Leather, cuffed glove. The in-ternal between them and the head is occupied with theblack masses of the costume, which consists of a cloakand a tunic, buttoned up to the throat, where the gravityof effect is relieved by a delicate white ruff. The sub-jects dark-brown hair grows in a little point over theforehead. The face is of brownish hue, rather rugged,with brown eyes, deeply set and fringed with wrinkles;a long, somewhat aquiline nose; and a mustache andpointed beard, a little lighter than the hair of the bead.

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