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Both women are dressed in ancient classical attire, not in the 16th-century fashion. In the Shakespearean text the spirits wear garlands and oval masks known as visards, while holding palm or laurel branches, but Fuseli omitted these details. In the background there is the deposed Queen's gaoler, almost hidden in the darkness. [2]
The painting portrays Isabella, unable to sleep, dressed in a semi-transparent nightgown, having just left her bed, which is visible with the cover turned over in the background. She drapes herself over an altar she has created to Lorenzo from an elaborately inlaid prie-dieu over which a richly embroidered cloth has been placed.
Christ and the Canaanite Woman (1594-1595) by Annibale Carracci Christ and the Canaanite Woman is a 1594-1595 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci , now in the Pinacoteca Stuard in Parma . The work was mentioned by Carlo Cesare Malvasia , who, in Felsina Pittrice , called it "the famous Canaanite Woman .
Hylas and the Nymphs is an 1896 oil painting by John William Waterhouse.The painting depicts a moment from the Greek and Roman legend of the tragic youth Hylas, based on accounts by Ovid and other ancient writers, in which the enraptured Hylas is abducted by Naiads (female water nymphs) while seeking drinking water.
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Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface.. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...
Flaming June is a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. Painted with oil paints on a 47-by-47-inch (1,200 mm × 1,200 mm) square canvas, it depicts a sleeping woman in a sensuous version of his classicist Academic style. It is Leighton's most recognisable work, and is much reproduced in posters and other media.
Woman Holding an Apple, also known as Portrait of a Lady, is an oil on canvas painting by Titian, made c. 1550-1555. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art , in Washington, D.C. . Description