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Italian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century

The long-standing endeavor to systematically catalog the Italian paintings of the National Gallery of Art continues in the publication of this Online Edition. The first entries to be released are dedicated to the great triumvirate of Venetian 16th-century painters—Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese—and additional entries will be published on a continuing basis.

Incorporating new technical and conservation information, the entries offer in each case the most thorough, carefully considered discussion available of the works in question and address previously unresolved questions of authorship, date, and studio practice. Supplemented by new artist biographies, the catalog entries provide convincing assessments of each picture that make this volume essential reading for scholars and students of Italian painting.  

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In this black and white horizontal photograph, people and horse-drawn carriages travel along and cross a rain-slicked, urban street. The photograph is roughly divided in half horizontally so the lower half shows a the wet pavement of a wide intersection, momentarily clear of people, where two streets meet in a T intersection. The upper half shows shops and buildings along a tree-lined street at the corner to our left, and along the long, cross street to our right. On the corner, clothing and other wares are displayed outside under an awning , while another display is covered over with a tarp. There are about ten people are on foot crossing the street toward us, while several horse-drawn carriages with large, spoked wheels, driven by caped and top-hatted men, pass through or are parked alongside the curb on the far side of the street. Some of the pedestrians hold up dark umbrellas, while only one man, without an umbrella, crosses the street walking away from us. All of the men wear dark suits and hats. The one woman crossing with the group wears a long skirt and matching thigh-length coat over a contrasting buttoned bodice. She holds up her skirts in one hand and her umbrella in the other. At the far corner, several tall multi-paneled kiosks with domed tops are papered with posters. Across the street is an uninterrupted row of buildings and shops with rows of shuttered windows above. A small triangular slice of sky can be seen between the building at the left and the trees lining the street; its reflection is mirrored on the wet street.

Scholarly Series:  Alfred Stieglitz Key Set

This nearly square painting shows an industrial area with buildings, storage silos, a smokestack, and railroad tracks. A mound of brown dirt or other material is in shadow in the lower left corner of the painting. Next to the mound, railroad tracks extend diagonally from the lower center of the painting into the distance to our right. The tracks end at a white building with staggered gray rooflines to our right in the distance. A tall terracotta-red smokestack rises high beyond the white building, smoke pouring out of its top and blending into the clouds above. Just beyond the mound of dirt, piles of white material, perhaps in unseen bins, line the railroad track to our left and lead back to a row ten interconnected, coral-orange silos. The horizon comes about halfway up the painting, and it is lined with a row of long white and gray warehouses. The artist signed and dated the work with brown paint in the lower right corner: “Sheeler 31.”

Scholarly Series:  American Paintings, 1900–1945