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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.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
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)
His Portrait of a young woman (c. 1660, Kremer Collection), which is likely a portrait of a simple maidservant, also shows Sweerts' interest in portraying common people. The painting has been compared to the Girl with a Pearl Earring painted by Vermeer some five years later. The young girls in both compositions are depicted with a combination ...
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 ...
Source: [1] Suzanne de Court (fl. 1600) - enamel painter in the Limoges workshops, possibly the daughter of Jean de Court; Mademoiselle Alée - lace-maker; Louise Moillon (1610 - 1696) - painter of still lifes, of an artist family who were Protestant refugees from the southern Netherlands.
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 ...
Jane Stuart (1812–1888), portrait painter; 1813 Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813–1884), portrait painter; Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), lithographer; George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), portrait painter; Asahel Lynde Powers (1813–1843), portrait painter; William Ranney (1813–1857), painter; 1814 Edward Bailey (1814–1903 ...