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The longer life expectancy of women once the possible complications of childbirth have passed leads to the creation of female self-portraits at very advanced ages. While among men, Titian (78 years), Ingres (79 years), Claude Monet (77 years), Pierre Bonnard (78 years), Edvard Munch (80 years) and especially Picasso (90 years) are exceptions ...
The artist calls her own works "imaginary portraits, dealing with the idea of childhood" [4] Her portraits are not portraits in the conventional sense, but rather constructed ones. "I make the person my own. A portrait allows the artist, as well as the viewer, the chance to mirror themselves in the other and to reflect on their own existence."
Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola is an oil on canvas double portrait from the late 1550s by Sofonisba Anguissola, in which she depicts herself being painted by her teacher, Bernadino Campi. [1] Whitney Chadwick has called this "the first historical example of the woman artist consciously collapsing the subject-object position."
Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait 7 (1930) Portrait of My Wife, the Painter Anna Ancher; Antea (Parmigianino) Arab Woman (watercolor) L'Arlésienne (painting) Portrait of the Artist's Mother (Van Gogh) The Artist's Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Red Room; The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog; At Grenelle, Absinthe Drinker; At the Window; Au ...
As an example, in this painting the diagonal of the nude is matched by the opposite diagonal between the red of the cushions in the front with the red skirts of the woman in the background. [ 31 ] With other Venetian painters such as Palma Vecchio , Titian established the genre of half-length portraits of imaginary beautiful women, often given ...
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Hans Holbein the Younger. Authentic portraits are ideal, but none exist for the vast majority of historic personalities. Where they exist, authentic portraits, i.e. artistic depictions of a person that purport to provide an individualized, authentic representation of that person's unique looks, based either directly or indirectly on a witness's first-hand ...
The Portraits of the Insane depict patients from the Paris mental hospitals La Salpêtrière and Bicêtre. [4]: 14 [3] Art historians have described the portraits as significant for their "unprecedented objective sobriety,” [5] observing that they "have a powerful realism that is entirely unaffected by romantic sentiment or artistic dramatization.” [3]
The picture was painted in tempera and oil on a poplar wood panel measuring 43.6 cm by 34.6 cm (17.1 in by 13.6 in). [1]The picture was, on the basis of a tradition, formerly believed to be a portrait of Lucretia Borgia, the notorious daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI.