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 | The Mountains of Moab 1905 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Official White House portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt 1903 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. | 
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) twenty-sixth president of the
United States.
Sargent's
painting would be the official portrait of the President, but it wasn't the
first. In 1902 Theobald Chartran
was commissioned
to paint portraits of the President and his wife. Although she enjoyed her's (a feminine portrait of her on a bench outside... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Olive Grove c. 1910 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Patio 1908 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Pavement 1898 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Ross |
A stunning
painting of the interior of San Marco in Venice.
After
almost two full decades since his Venetian Studies of 1880 and 1882, Sargent
seems to be captivated once again by the dark interiors and play of light of
this wonderful city. What is different this time, at least in the case of this
painting, is a higher degree of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Piazzetta and Ducale Palace c. 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
See also:
The Piazzetta, Venice
c.1904
Watercolor on paper
Palazzo Ducale
(Dodge's Palace)
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me
a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | The Piazzetta, Venice c.1904 |
The view in
the painting is facing the front of the old Library (designed by Jacopo
Sansovino in 1536) the Pizzetta to the right and beyond which leads to St.
Mark’s Square from the lagoon where Sargent paints this. You can somewhat
see the winged lion of St. Mark in the background (thumbnail left). The
freestanding column supporting St Theodor... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Pink Dress 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Plains of Esdraelon 1905 |
From: Tate Gallery Display Caption
(18-Dec-2001)
The Plains
of Esdraelon (or Jezreel) extend from the Mediterranean coast to the Jordan
River in present day Israel. They are sometimes called the valley of Megiddon,
anglicised as ‘Armageddon’, the battlefield in the New Testament
where the powers of good and evil fight at the end of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Portal of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
