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The painting's Spanish title "La Aguadora" has also been translated as Young Woman with a Pitcher [1] [2] or the Water Carrier. [3] After a long period producing tapestry cartoons for the Royal Factory, where his works conformed to the court's rococo style, Goya started painting genre scenes. Works such as The Water Bearer, featuring working ...
Fight with Cudgels (Spanish: Riña a garrotazos or Duelo a garrotazos), called The Strangers or Cowherds in the inventories, [2] is the name given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Goya did not give names to his Black Paintings. These names are courtesy of art historians. [3]
Agnolo Bronzino's painting Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune (c. 1530) and Michelangelo’s statue David (1501–1504) were Renaissance examples. The convention is occasionally also described in the modern era, such as Antonio Canova 's statue of Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (1802–1806) or George Bellows ' anti-lynching lithograph The ...
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
The Turkish Bath (Le Bain turc) is an oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, initially completed between 1852 and 1859, but modified in 1862. [1] The painting depicts a group of nude women at a pool in a harem. [1] It has an erotic style that evokes both the Near East and earlier western styles associated with mythological subject matter.
Most Mexican women felt these men were doing more for the war front than the Mexican men could ever do. [10] Women on the home front wrote poems about the progress of the war. One example, titled “When the women oppose the cowardly men,” condemns the inability of Mexican men to defeat the invaders.
William Etty, 1823, shortly before The Combat was painted. William Etty was born in 1787, the son of a York baker and miller. [1] He began as an apprentice printer in Hull. [2] On completing his seven-year apprenticeship he moved at the age of 18 to London "with a few pieces of chalk crayons", [3] with the intention of becoming a history painter in the tradition of the Old Masters. [4]
Truth, Time and History (Spanish: La Verdad, el Tiempo y la Historia) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya.The painting is also known by the titles Spain, Time, and History and Allegory of the Constitution of 1812.