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The Mona Lisa [a] is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world."
Portrait of the Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, 1238 AD. During the Song dynasty, Emperor Gaozong commissioned Portraits of Confucius and Seventy-two Disciples (sheng xian tu) on blank ground with his handwritten inscription. The figures were portrayed in vivid lines, animated gestures, and the facial expressions were rendered a narrative quality.
The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Saunderstown, Rhode Island Portrait of William Hunter's spaniels. Stuart was born on December 3, 1755, in Saunderstown, a village of North Kingstown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he was baptized at Old Narragansett Church on April 11, 1756.
For his part, Hans Holbein the Younger was preferably the author of religious paintings and portraits, dealing little with the nude, of which, however, we must highlight his magnificent The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521). [98] The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), by Hans Holbein the Younger, Kunstmuseum, Basel.
Max Beckmann was a prolific painter of self-portraits [26] as was Edvard Munch who made great numbers of self-portrait paintings (70), prints (20) and drawings or watercolours (over 100) throughout his life, many showing him being badly treated by life, and especially by women. [27]
Here's What 20 Famous People Looked Like As Kids Vs. Adults With Their Celebrity Parents By Their Sides. November 1, 2021 at 8:46 PM. 1.
John Singer Sargent (/ ˈ s ɑːr dʒ ən t /; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) [1] was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.
USE ORIGINAL IMAGE FOR STORIES Portrait of American orator, editor, author, abolitionist, and former enslaved person Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895), 1850s. Engraving by A. H. Ritchie. (Photo ...