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Castiglione was famous for his ability to paint animals, mostly farm animals, and they were often a dominant motif in his paintings. For example, in the painting of Jesus clearing the temple of Moneylenders, the religious event is a minor, background part of the painting, the stampede of animals is far more prominent than the scattering of bankers.
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris) / Skira Editore (Milano), Exhibition catalogue. 2004, Text French, Paris 2004, ISBN 88-8491-854-5 The book presents 155 artist (fine art) of the 20th century by showing their self-portraits added by informative texts. Calabrese, Omar: Artists' Self-portraits. Abbeville Press, 2006, ISBN 9780789208941; Jeancolas ...
An animal painter is an artist who specialises in (or is known for their skill in) the portrayal of animals. The OED dates the first express use of the term "animal painter" to the mid-18th century: by English physician , naturalist and writer John Berkenhout (1726–1791). [ 2 ]
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, also known as Autoritratto in veste di Pittura or simply La Pittura, was painted by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 98.6 by 75.2 centimetres (38.8 in × 29.6 in) and was probably produced during Gentileschi's stay in England between 1638 and 1639.
Self-portrait (c. 1645), oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm., (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg) Portrait of Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1656 –60), oil on canvas, 66 x 50.5 cm., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. In 1640, Rosa met Lucrezia Paolini (c. 1620 –1696) in Florence. Lucrezia was a married woman, whose husband had left the city and abandoned her ...
The painting Self-Portrait with Charlotte Berend and Champagne Goblet can be classified in many ways in Lovis Corinth's oeuvre, whereby its function as a double portrait and at the same time as a self-portrait and portrait of Charlotte Berend, later Charlotte Berend-Corinth, stands in the foreground. Corinth created numerous self-portraits ...
The Roman Campagna (1639), Metropolitan Museum of Art Sunrise (1646–47), Metropolitan Museum of Art Worship of the Golden Calf (1653), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. The earliest biographies of Claude are in Joachim von Sandrart's Teutsche Academie (1675) and Filippo Baldinucci's Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua (1682–1728).
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.