Tag: gitane
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; Gitane à la mandoline/ Gypsy with mandolin; 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #99
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was the son of a cloth merchant and a milliner. After an education at the Collège de Rouen and two abortive apprenticeships with drapers, he was given the financial freedom at the age of 26 to devote himself to painting. In 1825 to 1828 Corot made the…
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Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Gypsy approach 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #47
By the nineteenth century, Spain had embraced Gypsy myth and lore. The Romantics were in awe of the gypsies for their otherworldliness and seeming ability to commune with nature, while the following generation of artists and writers, driven by patriotism in the wake of Spain’s colonial losses, venerated the gypsy as the quintessential icon of…
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