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The current exhibition Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe opens a window on one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo and Enlightenment eras. These works slipped from public notice long ago as they became associated with the artificiality of the ancien régime, and in modern times because their fragility discouraged exhibition and travel.
The late Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese made in 1563 a monumental canvas, representing the wedding feast of Cana as a choral scene including dozens of contemporary characters...
El tema de las santas, tratadas individualmente sosteniendo sus atributos y mirando fuera del cuadro, fue uno de los motivos con más fortuna dentro de la...
Violet Teague was born into a privileged Melbourne family that gave her the opportunity to study art in Brussels and London. While there, she came to admire the grand British portraits of the 18th and 19th centuries. By the time ...
French artist Nadia Dafri expresses her creativity across many areas including fashion, accessories and household items. Her jewelry has many tribal influences and being textile is soft textural and luxurious. I do love the way that textile jewelry facilitates amazing fabric manipulation and experimentation
Pauline in the Yellow Dress - Herbert James Gunn 1944
Check out the fabulous work of Dutch photographer, Suzanne Jongmans. In her ‘Foam Sculptures’ series she uses costumes of caps and collars, inspired by 16th and 17th Century paintings, …
Alfred Eberling - Portrait of Ballerina Tamara Karsavina, 1911.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, the greatest German artist of the 16th century after Albrecht Dürer, painted several small images of beguiling young women-often superficially justified by a moral association for the private enjoyment of his aristocratic male patrons. Indeed, this attractive young woman in rich attire sends mixed signals. Her hair hangs loosely, so she is a not a married woman, whose hair would be discretely controlled. In a formal portrait, this would indicate that she is a virgin. However, she engages the viewer directly with an unabashed gaze and an expression suggesting familiarity. This would be inappropriate for an unmarried woman of a respectable family. Her gold jewelry and velvet dress is fashionable, but she wears no high-necked blouse under it. This provocative young woman is probably meant to represent Mary Magdalene, often said to have been a prostitute before she met Christ.
I have always been very fond of the portraits of Sir Anthony van Dyck who lived 1599 to 1641. He was a Flemish painter, but also worked in Italy, not to mention England- he became a painter at the court of Charles I. He painting often show off the clothes very well and I love how his persons really do look like persons with their own individuality. He also paints children that look like children, even if they are dressed like adults. Queen Henrietta Maria. Love the orange on the silver. Ladies in black and white. Isabella van Assche Lady Dorothy Dacre Marie de Raet Anna Wake Seventh Earl of Derby with his wife and child. I suspect the blue cast on her collar and cuffs are blue starch, but theye clearly edged with black. And so is the one below, but they are so similar in posture, so prhaps the good van Dyck took a bit of a shortcut here... Marchesa Paola Adorno Di Brignole Lady Lucy Percy Marchesa Elena Grimaldi. I love her red cuffs. Mary Viliers
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Smoke and Mirrors: Frida Kahlo's Dresses displays 300 accessories, corsets, clothes and health contraptions worn by the painter that have been locked away for over 50 years since her 1954 death.
Foam Sculptures is a project by Dutch photographer Suzanne Jongmans, who recreates the look of old 16th and 17th century Flemish and Dutch paintings using
Thomas Edwin Mostyn The Green Gown Late 19th century
Edenkoben, Villa Ludwigshöhe
Portrait of Evelyn Farquhar John Lavery, 1906
