Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is a museum devoted to the art of the picture book and especially the children's book. It is a member of Museums10 and is adjacent to the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Carle was founded by Eric and Barbara Carle, and designed by Juster Pope Frazier Architects. Together with his wife Barbara (1938-2015), Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of more than 70 books, including the 1969 classic "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", founded the museum. It was the first full-scale museum in
Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia is a c.1533 oil on canvas portrait by Lorenzo Lotto. It is now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1927. It first appears in the written record at the end of the 18th century, when it was in the Pesaro collection in Venice - one theory holds that its subject was Lucrezi Valier, who married into the Pesaro family in 1533. It was then still misattributed to Giorgione. The work's composition is similar to Lotto's "Portrait of Andrea Odoni", with a standing figure