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The Cholmondeley sisters and their swaddled babies. c.1600–1610. The Cholmondeley Ladies (pronounced / ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) is an early-17th-century English oil painting depicting two women seated upright and side by side in bed, each holding a baby.
Portrait of Lola Montez, 1847. Lola Montez, the mistress of Ludwig I and ultimately the reason for his abdication, was the penultimate subject for Stieler's gallery of beauties. Over the next 15 years until 1850, Stieler completed the missing 19 portraits and completed his work with the portraits of Lola Montez and Maria Dietsch. Cosmetic ...
Self-portrait: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi: 1525 Self-portrait: Hans Holbein: 1542 1630 Self-portrait: Sofonisba Anguissola: 1550 1824 Self-portrait: Alessandro Allori: c. 1555: 1689 Self-portrait in Uffizi: Lavinia Fontana: 1579 4013 Self-portrait: Marietta Robusti: 1590s 1898 Self-portrait: Arcangela Paladini: 1600s 2019 Self Portrait of ...
1900 Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
Most UK schools allow girls to wear trousers, but many girls still wear skirts in primary and secondary schools, even where the choice of trousers is given. In the late 20th and early 21st century, many schools began changing their uniform rules to allow trousers for girls amidst opposition to skirts-only policies. [ 68 ]
A collective term used for a type of snacks in Gujarati cuisine, from the Indian state of Gujarat. The batter is cooked down to a thick paste, then spread on a flat surface and rolled into small pieces. [13] Kueh: South/Southeast Asia: Colorful bite sized, pudding-like snacks with a starchy texture.
In England from the 1630s, under the influence of literature and especially court masques, Anthony van Dyck and his followers created a fashion for having one's portrait painted in exotic, historical or pastoral dress, or in simplified contemporary fashion with various scarves, cloaks, mantles, and jewels added to evoke a classic or romantic mood, and also to prevent the portrait appearing ...
Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]