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“Bahram Gur and Princess of Fifth Region on Wednesday”, Folio from a Haft Paikar (The Seven Portraits), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Gift of Dr. John C. Burnett, 1957 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver (?) on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451467

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Coin, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Gold

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444865

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Gospels, MS 58, Trinity College Dublin

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Tiziano Vecellio, Annunciazione (1557), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Ger 1880-1938) Winter Moonlit Night / Wintermondnacht (1919)

Woodcut (31 x 32 cm)

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Self-Portrait with Hand under Cheek, 1911, Edvard Munch

Medium: oil,canvas

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Spyros Papaloukas (Greek, 1892-1957), The Yard of the Megistis Lavras Monastery, Mount Athos, 1924. Oil on card, 47 x 41.5 cm.

Fishing, Natalia Goncharova

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Head of Gudea, 2144 BCE - 2124 BCE

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Claude Monet, The Fécamp Pier in Heavy Weather, 1881. Oil on canvas

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Long Grass with Butterflies, Vincent van Gogh, 1890

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Vincent’s details.

It’s not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. -Vincent van Gogh

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Hans Hoffmann A Hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus), before 1584 New York, The Metropolitan Museum (watercolor and gouache on paper, 207 x 307 mm)

Hans Hoffmann Red Squirrel, 1578 Washington, National Gallery of Art (watercolor and gouache with traces of graphite on vellum, 250 x 178 mm)

Due to the specialist skills required to replicate every minute detail characteristic for a specific animal or plant, certain artists, such as Hans Hoffmann and Joris Hoefnagel developed as specialists in this area. While Hoffmann was also active as a painter of portraits and religious subjects, he is best remembered for his highly finished drawings after nature. His initial inspiration however, was not nature itself per se, but the highly-detailed studies of it, made by his famous predecessor Albrecht Dürer, whose works were still admired and highly coveted. Several collectors in Nuremberg, the native town of both artists, owned such studies by Dürer and provided Hoffmann with inspiration.

sources: The Met, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370476 National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.73845.html