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Duvaucey stares out directly at the viewer with a sly and suggestive smile. Set against a flat grey background, the perspective of the portrait is very shallow overall. It is framed by the inwards swoops of the cured rose and gold Louis XVI chair, and embroidered pale yellow and red silk shawl. She holds an expensive-looking fan, and is adorned ...
La Calavera Catrina ("The Dapper [female] Skull") is an image and associated character originating as a zinc etching created by the Mexican printmaker and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913). The image is usually dated c. 1910 –12. Its first certain publication date is 1913, when it appeared in a satiric broadside (a newspaper ...
The designer intended to take the toughness and irreverence of McQueen's London, in opposition to the wealthy and elegant atmosphere of Givenchy. According to Sebastian Pons, his design assistant at the time: " I walked to his London studio and he was talking of an haute couture show, "I tried to please them and I fucked it up so I'm going to ...
King Louis IX directly financed the rose windows at Notre-Dame de Paris and all of the windows at Sainte-Chapelle, which are filled with symbols of his reign. The first stained glass window to portray its patron is at the Basilica of Saint Denis, where an image of the Abbot Suger is shown at the feet of Christ. But later in the 12th and 13th ...
Crucifixion by Orcagna, c. 1365, with very elaborate tooling.Fragments from an altarpiece, in a 19th-century rearrangement. Gold ground (both a noun and adjective) or gold-ground (adjective) is a term in art history for a style of images with all or most of the background in a solid gold colour.
Roman guilloche around a scene with Diana the Huntress, late 2nd century AD, mosaic, Bardo National Museum, Tunis, Tunisia [1]. Guilloché (French:), or guilloche (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ l oʊ ʃ /), is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name.
The gold cloth in this painting takes the place of the gold leaf background. The arrangement is formal, yet the gestures, and in particular the mother's adoring gaze, give a human warmth to this picture. Vittore Carpaccio's Madonna and Child is very unusual in showing the Christ Child as a toddler fully dressed in contemporary clothing.
The intensity of colour in Christie's paintings, as exemplified in "The Laughing Amazon" ("a dazzling bronzed beauty with rippling gold hair, blue eyes, gleaming white teeth, and a vivid red shawl about her shoulders"), was a feature of his early work and attracted particular comment when the Amazon was exhibited alongside de Laszlo's contrasting portrait of the Duchess of Kent ("a slightly ...