Tag: Baroque
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Possibly Caterina Savelli, Principessa di Albano, with Footnotes. #175
Artemisia Gentileschi was celebrated by her contemporaries as a painter of portraits. Only a few of these have survived, however, and this depiction of an elegant and beautiful young woman must rank amongst her very best examples in the genre. The sitter, who appears to be in her late 20s or early 30s, is resplendently…
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Juan Carreño De Miranda, Saint Sebastian 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bile, With Footnotes – 99
Juan Carreño De Miranda Saint Sebastian, c. 1656. Oil on canvas, 171 x 113 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado This work is a superb example of Carreño’s Venetian devotion in his early years. The general silhouette is very similar to Orrente’s canvas in the Cathedral of Valencia, representing the same Saint. Probably the existence of a…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 D
John Michael Wright Portrait de Ann Suckling of Norfolk, c. 17th Century Oil on canvas 27 ¾ x 34 inches, 70.5 x 86.5cm Private collection The suggested sitter as Ann Suckling, daughter of Sir John Suckling, and wife of Sir John Davis of Pangbourne cannot be correct. However, Ann Suckling did have a daughter, also called Ann, who may…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #79
Peter van de Velde, (1634–after 1723) The burning of the English fleet off Chatham, 20 June 1667, circa 1670 (1667-1700) Oil on panel 73 × 108 cm (28.7 × 42.5 in) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, sometimes called the Battle of the Medway, Raid on Chatham or…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! from the SPANISH GOLDEN AGE, With Footnotes – 87
Juan Carreño De Miranda Saint Anthony Of Padua With The Christ Child Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland Until its recent acquisition for the Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland, this archetypal image of Saint Anthony had been in the collection of the Marquises de Legarda, Spain, for over three centuries. With remarkable painterly fluency Carreño expresses…
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