Exploring Different Artist and their Artwork in Virtual Museum

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The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum found in Washington D.C. and is located between 3rd and 9th streets at the National Mall on Constitution Avenue NW. I chose to visit this museum virtually for its wide range of art including collections of paintings, sculptures, prints, medals, photographs, and drawings ranging from the middle ages to now. My initial reaction was astonishment and I was awestruck at the magnitude of art collections at the National Gallery of Art website (Boyle, 2018).
080454500I will briefly discuss some of the works I encountered while visiting the onlie museum and they are; Jacopo Tintoretto’s The ship of the Golden Calf.
The painting depicts the events of Exodus 32, where the Israelites decided to create an idol in the form of a golden calf after Moses went to Mt. Sinai to receive the 10 commandments from God as depicted on the top right corner. In the middle of the painting is a high priest Aaron collecting gold ornaments to make the idol, while on the left background we see the golden calf surrounded by worshippers. In the centre-right Israelites are seen celebrating and making merry and on the right and left foreground are richly adorned, observers and revelers. This painting is from the early ages (Echols, 2021).
-36195045974000Maarten de Vos’ The Seven Maccabean Brothers Killed by Antiochus
This painting depicts scenes of Antiochus killing seven brothers and I chose this painting because it shows how Maccabees were persecuted for their religious beliefs and the suffering they had to go through in order to keep their faith. This painting can be used to understand more about Matyr theology. This painting is from the middle ages.
Giovanni Baronzio’s The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of John the Baptist045275500
In this painting, the artist puts together three important events in John the Baptist’s life on one scene, on the left we see Elizabeth, the mother of John resting as two women attend to the newly born John. In the center foreground, we see John’s father Zacharias writing the name of the newborn on a scroll and this is the moment he miraculously regains his power of speech after it was lost for doubting an angel’s announcement that they ...