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2. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer.

3. Portrait of a Lady (van der Weyden) - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of a Lady (or Portrait of a Woman) is a small oil-on-oak panel painting executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. The composition is built from the geometric shapes that form the lines of the woman's veil , neckline, face, and arms, and by the fall of the light that illuminates her face and headdress.

4. Gallery of Beauties - Wikipedia

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   Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]

5. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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   Albrecht Dürer inherited the forms of Gothic art so deeply rooted in his country, but evolved thanks to the study of Italian Renaissance classicism. Some of his early works show the Gothic female prototype of elongated figures with small breasts and bulging bellies, as in Hausfrau (1493), Women's Bath (1496) and The Four Witches (1497 ...

6. Lady with a Fan (Klimt) - Wikipedia

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   In Girlfriends or Two Women Friends (1916–1917), Klimt also painted a background with Oriental motifs, including a large phoenix. [10] Both paintings were destroyed in 1945 during the fire at Immendorf Castle. [10] In contrast to Klimt's earlier works, Lady with a Fan is characterised by freer and more rapidly executed brushstrokes.

7. Lilith (painting) - Wikipedia

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   The brown tones of the snake's body stand out in contrast with the pale woman's body, but take up the color scheme of the surrounding jungle. Collier presented his painting inspired by fellow painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1868 poem Lilith, or Body's Beauty, which describes Lilith as the witch who loved Adam before Eve. Her ...