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The Cholmondeley sisters and their swaddled babies. c.1600–1610. The Cholmondeley Ladies (pronounced / ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) is an early-17th-century English oil painting depicting two women seated upright and side by side in bed, each holding a baby.
Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]
Study of a Young Woman (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman or Girl with a Veil) [2] [3] is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1665 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting was painted around the same time as the better-known Girl with a Pearl Earring and has a near ...
Allegory of Peace, Art and Abundance; Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio) Annunciation (El Greco, Illescas) Annunciation (El Greco, Prado, 1600) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Hyacinth; Assumption of the Virgin (Annibale Carracci, Rome)
In his times, Pliny complained of the declining state of Roman portrait art, "The painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people, has entirely gone out…Indolence has destroyed the arts." [21] [22] These full-face portraits from Roman Egypt are fortunate exceptions. They present a somewhat ...
Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, before 1666 Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Northumberland, 1669. The Windsor Beauties are a set of portrait paintings, still in the Royal Collection, by Sir Peter Lely and his workshop, produced in the early to mid-1660s, that depict ladies of the court of King Charles II, some of whom were his mistresses.
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer is often considered to be the best known piece of Dutch art. Dutch Golden Age painting was among the most acclaimed in the world at the time, during the seventeenth century. During the Dutch Golden Age, there was such a high output of paintings that prices for artwork declined.
The painting is unusual for the time in its depiction of the sitters as equals. [2] [3] The women are presented as companions with similar dress, makeup, hair, and jewellery. The work was created c. 1650 is probably not a portrait of real sitters, but an allegory with relevance within contemporaneous British print culture. [4]