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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.
Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000 was an international exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2000–2001 that exhibited a painting representing each year of the 20th century. [1]
In his times, Pliny complained of the declining state of Roman portrait art, "The painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people, has entirely gone out…Indolence has destroyed the arts." [22] [23] These full-face portraits from Roman Egypt are fortunate exceptions. They present a somewhat ...
Study of a Young Woman (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman or Girl with a Veil) [2] [3] is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1665 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting was painted around the same time as the better-known Girl with a Pearl Earring and has a near ...
Young Girls is a portrait painting in oil on canvas, which measures 164 cm × 133 cm (65 in × 52 in). [6] Set in an affluent home, it depicts two similarly aged women sat on chairs in close proximity. [4] [7] The dark woman, modelled by Sher-Gil's sister Indira, is positioned upright and appears to have a smirk.
Allegory of Peace, Art and Abundance; Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio) Annunciation (El Greco, Illescas) Annunciation (El Greco, Prado, 1600) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Hyacinth; Assumption of the Virgin (Annibale Carracci, Rome)
Girl in a Blue Dress, also called Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue [1] (Dutch: Portret van een meisje in het blauw) [2] or simply Portrait of a Girl [3] (Dutch: Portret van een meisje), [4] is an oil painting by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. [5]
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]