Tag: art-history
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a young woman, with Footnotes. #152
Makart was one of the premier portraitists of his time, with a clientele consisting of members of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. He developed a specific style of female portrait, showing the sitter in full length, painted loosely in a sketch-like manner in a restrained colour palette. Some, however, criticised his work for its superficial treatment…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Helisena Girl’s Maeia with child, with Footnotes – #57
Sold for €1,100 EUR in Mar 2023 Maria with child or Madonna and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Le Pho’s Idylle (Idyll), with Footnotes #101
Sold for HKD 2,000,000 in Nov 2017 Idylle is the term used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing. Examples of the…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, il Perugino’s Madonna and Child with two cherubs, With Footnotes – #174
This painting illustrates the painter’s masterful drawing technique and his unique ability, anticipating Raphael, to execute holy iconography even in a small format painting. The cherub’s heads, which had been obscured by dark paint, came back to light after a restoration carried out in 1927. Following a sale later that same year, the painting entered…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Cecil Aldin’s Land Girl Ploughing, with Footnotes #147
The scene shows two grey horses harnessed to a plough being driven by a Land Girl, moving from right to left of the composition. Beyond the girl is a view of the distant countryside. A storm is brewing in the grey sky above their heads. More on this painting The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was a British…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hans Makart’s Richard III Courting Lady Anne, with Footnotes, #99
Estimated at 15,000 – 20,000 GBP in December 2022Richard of Gloucester, the brother of King Edward IV, is determined to gain the crown of England for himself, no matter what. His plot begins as he romantically pursues Lady Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick and a widow. He woos her as she accompanies the…
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01 Religious Icon, Follower of Joos van Cleve’s Virgin and Child, with footnotes #47
Estimate for 15,000 – 20,000 EUR in November 2022 In the tradition of small paintings kept in the private sphere, our Virgin and Child was dedicated to private devotion. In the tradition of Gérard David, the models circulated and spread widely in Flanders throughout thesixteenth century. More on this Icon Virgin and Child or Madonna and Child or…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Titian’s portrait of Roxelana (Haseki Hurrem Sultan, with Footnotes #150
Estimated for 20,000 – 30,000 GBP in October 2022Known in the West as Roxelana, this painting depicts one of the most famous women of the Ottoman empire. Originally from what is now western Ukraine she was sold at an early age in the slave markets of Constantinople and entered the harem of Sultan Süleyman I (‘The…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Juan De Flandes’ Deposition from the Cross – with footnotes #206
Estimated for €2,500.00 in Feb 2023 The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Vicente Palmaroli y Gonzales’ A Secret Love, with Footnotes #96
Sold for USD 38,400 in Oct 2005 In the present work, Palmaroli, inspired by the anceint world, depicts two classical figures. He possessed a great sensitivity to rendering the human figure and has carefully considered the way the drapery of their togas fall on the body of the man and woman. More on this paintingVicente Palmaroli González (5…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson’s Melusina, with footnotes #226
Melusina was a mythical figure from European folklore, a water nymph who is often portrayed with the upper body of a beautiful woman but the lower that of a fish, or serpent. The most complete retelling of what was probably a more ancient legend, dates from the end of the 14th century and recounts how Melusina…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Rembrandt’s The Great Deposition from the Cross — with footnotes #197
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian’s Venus and Adonis, With Footnotes – #136
Sold for 11,164,000 GBP in December 2022 Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking…
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