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Bronzino's portraits earned praise for being well executed and natural. [4] His first portraits were more freely painted and less precise, as seen in the portrait of Lorenzo Lenzi, than his later ones. [3] [4] For example, Bronzino's portrait of Ludovico Capponi (c. 1550–1555) is more smooth and has more controlled brushwork.
American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
The portrait, as a literary genre, is a written description or analysis of a person or thing. A written portrait often gives deep insight, and offers an analysis that goes far beyond the superficial. It is considered a parallel to pictorial portraiture. The imitation of painting is apparent in the name of the genre itself, which is a painting term.
[1] [3] The portrait and its pendant, Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan, have been separated since 1793. [2] [4] Occasional exhibitions have reunited the pair. [3] Wilhelm von Bode was the first one to notice the similarities in size and composition and presented the man and woman as pendants in his catalogue of Rembrandt paintings in 1897 ...
List of paintings created during 1858–1871 1872–1878 1878–1881 1881–1883 1884 1884–1888 1888 1888–1898 1899–1904 1900–1926 This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water Lilies, which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches. Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and ...
Man on a Balcony is a large oil painting on canvas with dimensions 195.6 x 114.9 cm (77 by 45.25 inches) signed and dated Albert Gleizes 12, lower left.Studies for this work began in the spring of 1912 while the full-figure portrait was probably completed during the late summer of 1912.
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait can be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen.
In 15th-century Italy, the stylistic development of individual portrait-painting had awoken with new vigor after a thousand years of silence. The last period in the history was in the antiquity , when the Romans were known for their prolific depiction of individual traits of peoples.