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There are everyday examples of hidden faces, they are "chance images" including faces in the clouds, figures of the Rorschach Test and the Man in the Moon. Leonardo da Vinci wrote about them in his notebook: "If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad ...
The painting shows a laughing man, bareheaded, with his head tilted back, dressed in a deep purple robe, surrounded by a rougher brown woolen cape. He also wears a polished metal gorget, a piece of armor which is protecting the throat. The man's face has the features of the young Rembrandt, shown as a laughing soldier. [1]
The paintings depict human faces in profile made up from different animals or objects. Air is represented by birds, Fire by burning wood and cannons, Earth by land animals and Water by marine creatures. The series attempts to express the creation of harmony from chaos by the careful arrangement of the wild animals to form portraits whilst also ...
The drawing is related to the painting W106 : Two Sitting Figures: c. 1628-1629: Black chalk: 19.3 x 14.8 cm: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: The drawing is related to the painting W23 : Three Scribes: c. 1628-1629: Pen, brush: 22.6 x 17.6 cm: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: The drawing is related to the painting W23 : Old Man with Outspread ...
Bust of a Man Wearing a Gorget and Plumed Beret: 1626: Oil on panel: 40 x 29.4: Private collection: 6: History Painting: 1626: Oil on panel: 90 x 122: Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden: 7: Subject still under discussion David with the Head of Goliath before Saul: 1626/1627: Oil on panel: 27.2 x 39.6: Kunstmuseum Basel: 8: The Baptism of the ...
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In modern art-historical usage, the term tronie is typically restricted to figures not intended to depict an identifiable person, so it is a form of genre painting in a portrait format. Typically a painted head or bust only, concentrating on the facial expression, but often half-length when featured in an exotic costume, tronies might be based ...
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