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2. Gallery of Beauties - Wikipedia

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   Gallery of Beauties. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1] All but two were painted between 1827 and 1850 by Joseph Karl Stieler ...

3. Ukiyo-e - Wikipedia

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   Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e[a] is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.

4. Portrait painting - Wikipedia

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   Self-portrait of Nicolas Régnier painting a portrait of Vincenzo Giustiniani, 1623–24, Fogg Art Museum. Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public ...

5. Utamaro - Wikipedia

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   Utamaro. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: 喜多川 歌麿; c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.

6. Hokkoku Goshiki-zumi - Wikipedia

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   Hokkoku Goshiki-zumi. Teppō. Hokkoku Goshiki-zumi ( 北国五色墨, "Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter") is a series of five ukiyo-e prints designed by the Japanese artist Utamaro and published in c. 1794–95 . The prints depict and contrast women who work in or near the exclusive pleasure district of Yoshiwara in the administrative ...

7. Kushi (Utamaro) - Wikipedia

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   Kushi. (Utamaro) Kushi, Utamaro, multicolour woodblock print, c. 1795–96. Kushi ( 櫛, "Comb", c. 1795–96) is a title given to a print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro. It depicts a woman looking through a clear glass comb.