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The picture is a bit higher than it is wide. Shown from above, a small child with blonde hair is depicted in the left half of the painting, who is facing the viewer, standing in front of the bed of a dead or dying woman to whom she has turned her back. Her arms are raised, the hands seem to be pressed against the ears, the head is slightly lowered.
Man Proposes, God Disposes. Edwin Landseer's 1864 painting Man Proposes, God Disposes is believed to be haunted, and a bad omen. [6] According to urban myth, a student of Royal Holloway college once committed suicide during exams by stabbing a pencil into their eye, writing "The polar bears made me do it" on their exam paper. [7]
This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) [1] a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream (1893), is part of a series The Frieze of Life , in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia ...
The finished painting is one of the earliest examples from Picasso's famous Blue Period. - The Courtauld Institute of Art “She may forever be a sort of anonymous model,” Wright said, adding ...
The painting depicts the moment that Jane, blindfolded, is being assisted to lay her head upon the block for the executioner. Her outstretched hand reaches uncertainly down to find the block. She is being assisted by a man who is identified as John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos. Chandos was a Lieutenant of the Tower at the time of Jane's execution ...
The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré.It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...
The painting is covered by a layer of yellowed varnish and shows darkened retouches Self-portrait Lit from the Left: 1629: Oil on panel: 15.5 x 12.7: Alte Pinakothek, Munich: 31: Self-portrait with Beret and Gathered Shirt (‘stilus mediocris’) 1630: Oil on copper: 15 x 12.2: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: 33: Bust of an Old Woman at Prayer ...