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Lewis toured Europe in 1827, the year he began to paint in watercolour, then travelled in Spain and Morocco between 1832 and 1834. The drawings he made were turned into lithographs by him and other artists, and published as Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, made during a Residence in Granada in the Years 1833–4 (1835) and Lewis's Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (1836).
El Jaleo is an example of Hispanism, the phenomenon of widespread fascination with Spanish culture throughout Europe and America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. [9] The painting has been called both an example of John Singer Sargent's Impressionism [11] and also his early affinity with the Realist movement. [12]
This conflict was the setting of Lewis' novel The Revenge for Love (1937), but Lewis denied any intended connection between the painting and novel. It is similar to The Armada, another painting Lewis made around the same period, which belongs to the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. [2] Jeffrey Meyers calls The Surrender of Barcelona Lewis ...
He would again sign a similar document in 1653 for Francisca Velázquez, daughter of the painter. [3] In 1649 he accompanied Velázquez on his second trip to Italy. This is where Velázquez painted his famous painting Portrait of Juan de Pareja, currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. The painting was exhibited in the Pantheon ...
John Phillip (19 April 1817 – 27 February 1867) was a Scottish painter best known for his portrayals of Spanish life. He started painting these studies after a trip to Spain in 1851. He started painting these studies after a trip to Spain in 1851.
The painting comes from a crucial period in the development of the Italian Renaissance portrait, which was then being led by Venice. According to John Steer , Titian retains the "mood of generalized inner mystery" that Giorgione had brought to his portraits (which may not represent individuals who commissioned the painting) but shows the ...
The 1604 copy by Eugenio Cajés before the painting left Spain, showing the original's state before it was damaged and restored (Museo del Prado, Madrid).Leda and the Swan (known in Italian as Leda) is an oil on canvas painting from 1530–31 by the Italian painter Correggio, now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. [1]
Saint John the Baptist is a High Renaissance oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo da Vinci. Likely to have been completed between 1513 and 1516, it is believed to be his final painting. Its original size was 69 by 57 centimetres (27 in × 22 in). The painting is in the collection of the Louvre.