Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Bodegón (Kitchen Scene) 1618–1620 Oil on canvas, 55.9 × 104.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this modest kitchen scene, a type known as a bodegón (from the Spanish for pantry), Diego Velázquez depicted a young African…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Brazilian Landscape 1656 Oil on panel, 41.6 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This imagined landscape depicts enslaved Africans resting and dancing amid baskets of fruit on a hill above a broad plain of coastal swamp, surrounded by…
(c.195 BC-c.159 BC) Publius Terentius Afer Works: • The Comedies of Terence (English) Codex Vaticanus Latinus (9th century) with the portrait of Terence. Terence in Art: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus Frigida 1614 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Born c.195…