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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Virgin and Child, c. 1515-1517
Andrea del Sarto
Italian, 1486
- 1530
tempera and oil on wood
85.6 x 62.5 cm
Purchased 1938
National Gallery of Canada (no. 4352)
Andrea d'Agnolo, called del Sarto ("the tailor") after his father, spent most of his career in Florence, first apprenticing with Piero di Cosimo (c. 1462-1521?). In many ways, del Sarto stands as a bridge between the High Renaissance and the emerging Mannerist style. His painting conveys an embellishment of Raphael's ideal of classical beauty and harmony with a new grace or "bella maniera", a trend championed by del Sarto's most famous pupil, Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557). In this composition of the "Virgin and Child", probably the artist's most popular subject, the supple modelling of flesh and drapery is enlivened with vibrant passages of light and colour.
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