National Gallery of Art: Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon, Portrait of a Lady, Annunciation, Symphony in White

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon, Portrait of a Lady, Annunciation, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, David E. Finley, Jr., The Voyage of Life, Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings, Laocoon, J. Carter Brown, La Mousme, Girl in White, The Skater, Watson and the Shark, The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, Woman Holding a Balance, Street in Venice, The Great Red Dragon Paintings, Breezing Up, Ginevra de' Benci, Chester Dale, Girl with a Red Hat, The Feast of the Gods, Widener family, A Lady Writing a Letter, Death and the Miser, Seven Sacraments, Adoration of the Shepherds, Hereward Lester Cooke, John Wilmerding, Alba Madonna, The Needlewoman, Four-Sided Pyramid, Moondog, Thinker on a Rock, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, A Young Girl Reading, The Old Musician, House I, Puellae, Small Cowper Madonna, Cubi XI, The Washington Family, The Lackawanna Valley, The Railway, Aurora, Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, Tobias and the Angel, Judith and Holofernes, The Open Window, Cheval Rouge, Stele II, Untitled, Micro Gallery, Personnage Gothique, Oiseau-Eclair, Spider, Cubi XXVI, Graft, The Mill, Saint George and the Dragon, Beasts of the Sea, Odalisque with Raised Arms, Portrait of a Young Man, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, A Girl with a Watering Can, Ville d'Avray. Excerpt: Portrait of a Lady (or Portrait of a Woman) is a small oil-on-oak panel painting executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. The composition is built from the geometric shapes that form the lines of the woman's veil, neckline, face and arms, and by the fall of the light that illuminates her face and headdress. The vivid contrasts of darkness and light enhance the almost unnatural beauty and Gothic elegance...