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The drawing is estimated to have been drawn c. 1510, possibly as a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci.In 1839, it was acquired by King Carlo Alberto of Savoy. [2] The assumption that the drawing is a self-portrait of Leonardo was made in the 19th century, based on the similarity of the sitter to the possible portrait of Leonardo as Plato in Raphael's The School of Athens [2] and on the high ...
According to art historian Paul Zanker, the bearded type has long hair from the start, and a relatively long beard (contrasting with the short "classical" beard and hair always given to St Peter, and most other apostles); [42] this depiction is specifically associated with "Charismatic" philosophers like Euphrates the Stoic, Dio of Prusa and ...
Écorché by Leonardo da Vinci.. An écorché (French pronunciation:) is a figure drawn, painted, or sculpted showing the muscles of the body without skin, normally as a figure study for another work or as an exercise for a student artist.
University of Michigan Museum of Art [11] Odalisque à la culotte rayée, reflectée dans la glace: 1923 Lithograph on paper 63.82 cm x 47.63 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [12] Dancer, from the series Ten Dancers (Dix Danseuses) 1925–26 Lithograph on paper 32.7 cm x 50.48 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [13]
A realistic full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress, painted in 1893 or 1894. [4] At least one source says it is a portrait of Marie Breunig. [5] At least one source uses the title Portrait of a Lady in Black. [6] 04: 1895 – Love (oil on canvas, 60 cm × 44 cm) For its evanescent rarefaction the love scene reveals its symbolist mould.
The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 [1] [2] or c. 1939 [3] [4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.
Classical art [Note 2] is the art developed in ancient Greece and Rome, whose scientific, material and aesthetic advances contributed to the history of art a style based on nature and the human being, where harmony and balance, the rationality of forms and volumes, and a sense of imitation ("mimesis") of nature prevailed, laying the foundations ...
Atkinson noted that of the colliery scenes Hair depicted only one was still (partially) intact by the 1960s – the Friar's Goose pumping-engine house above Gateshead – still in operation when Hair drew it, but ruined by the mid-20th century. From this it was possible to make an assessment of the technical accuracy of Hair's drawings.