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The Last Supper, a 7x2-meter oil painting on canvas in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, is the only signed work by Plautilla Nelli known to survive. Painted in the 1560s, Nelli's Last Supper is the first depiction of the subject by a woman. Florence has the richest tradition of paintings of the Last Supper in the world. Her most significant ...
6, including Alfred and Alice. Father. Joseph August Knip. Ronner-Knip's signature. Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦɑ̃ːriˈjɛtə ˈrɔnər ˈknɪp]; 31 May 1821 – 28 February 1909) was a Dutch-Belgian artist chiefly in the Romantic style who is best known for her animal paintings; especially cats.
The term covers large paintings in oil on canvas or fresco produced between the Renaissance and the late 19th century, after which the term is generally not used even for the many works that still meet the basic definition. [2] History painting may be used interchangeably with historical painting, and was especially so used before the 20th ...
The Toilette. The Toilette, called The countess's morning levee on the frame, [1] is the fourth canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode painted by William Hogarth. The old earl has died, so the son is now the new earl, and his wife is the countess. As was still the fashion at the time, the countess is holding ...
Known for. Painting, contemporary indigenous Australian art. Kudditji Kngwarreye, also known as "Goob", (1938 – 23 January 2017) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. He was the brother through kinship of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Like his skin sister Emily, he was one of the most ...
Hans Zatzka (8 March 1859 – 17 December 1945 [1] or 1949 [2]) was an Austrian Academic and fantasy [3] painter. He has sometimes been known as P. Ronsard, [2] Pierre de Ronsard, [1] or H. Zabateri, [3][4] and signed many of his works as Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard, or Bernard Zatzka. [5] The purpose of Zatzka's vast array of pseudonyms was to ...
Twentieth-century art historians are divided as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of the paradise lost. He painted three large triptychs (the others are The Last Judgment of c. 1482 and The Haywain Triptych of c. 1516) that can be read from left to right and in which each panel was essential to the meaning ...
The Lady's Death. The Lady's Death is the sixth and final canvas in the series of satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode painted by William Hogarth. The Countess has returned to her father's house after her husband’s murder. The moral drama is concluded with her having moved from dissipation and vice to misery and shame, and finally ...