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The Beggars or The Cripples is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1568. It is now in the Louvre , in Paris . Its also is the only painting by Bruegel in the Louvre, received as a gift in 1892.
Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (13 October 1698 – 28 August 1767) was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice.He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto (the little beggar) for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags.
Old Jewish Man with a Boy or Blind Beggar with a Boy is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, from 1903. It was made in Barcelona , Spain , and characteristic of his Blue Period . [ 1 ] Picasso later moved to Paris, where he sold the work to Sergei Shchukin , whose collection was seized by the Soviet state after the October Revolution ...
The Beggars of Burgos (Les mendiants de Burgos) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1875 by French artist Gustave Doré. It was sold in 2012 by Galerie Michel Descours. It was sold in 2012 by Galerie Michel Descours.
The painting shows the youthful Martin wearing a harness and a fashionable hat sitting on his splendid white horse. He has almost entirely cut his fire-red cloak in two with the sword in his right hand, while a naked beggar sitting on the ground to the right is pulling at one half of the cloak.
The painting illustrates the story of 'The King and the Beggar-maid", which tells the legend of the prince Cophetua who fell in love at first sight with the beggar Penelophon. The tale was familiar to Burne-Jones through an Elizabethan ballad published in Bishop Thomas Percy 's 1765 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry and the sixteen-line poem ...
Cesar Torrente Legaspi (April 2, 1917 – April 7, 1994) was a Filipino National Artist in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. His early (1940s–1960s) works, alongside those of peer, Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and dehumanization of beggars and ...
Seta Manoukian (1945) is a Lebanese painter of Armenian descent. [1]Seta Manoukian was born into a family of Armenian origin in Beirut in 1945. Although she is not part of the generation that experienced the genocide, she belongs to the Armenian diaspora.