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Using mirrors, Knight painted herself and Naper as seen by someone entering the studio behind them both. As an art student Knight had not been permitted to directly paint nude models but, like all female art students in England at the time, was restricted to working from casts and copying existing drawings.
In 1983, Knight was appointed as the head of the Corporation of London's art collection, later housed at the Guildhall Art Gallery. [3]The collection of some 4500 art works had mostly been in storage since 1941, and after having catalogued them, Knight worked to have them exhibited, firstly with The City's Pictures which she curated in 1987 at the Barbican Art Gallery. [1]
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 ...
Self Portrait with Nude (sometimes known as Self Portrait or The Model) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1913 by the English artist Laura Knight. [1] A mature work, painted when Knight was 36 years old, it was controversial for its subject matter: a female artist painting a nude female life model.
Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919) was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. [1]
Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award Gwendolyn Clarine Knight (May 26, 1913 – February 18, 2005) was an American artist who was born in Bridgetown , Barbados , in the West Indies . [ 1 ]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Fictional knights. It includes fictional knights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Fictional Dame ; female knights or practitioners of chivalry .
Bradamante (occasionally spelled Bradamant) is a fictional knight heroine in two epic poems of the Renaissance: Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. [1] Since the poems exerted a wide influence on later culture, she became a recurring character in Western art. [2] [3]