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Portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to Levina Teerlinc, c. 1560–5. The Royal Collection. 16th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600.
Young Girls is a portrait painting in oil on canvas, which measures 164 cm × 133 cm (65 in × 52 in). [6] Set in an affluent home, it depicts two similarly aged women sat on chairs in close proximity. [4] [7] The dark woman, modelled by Sher-Gil's sister Indira, is positioned upright and appears to have a smirk.
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)
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 ...
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.
Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies. Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School is a 17th-century allegorical painting by an unknown artist, presumed to be English and (judging by the costumes) to date from the 1650s. For its period, the painting is considered unusual and "extremely rare" in its depiction of a black woman and a white ...
The subject of the painting remains largely a mystery. In 1671, Giacomo Barri , an artist and writer, referred to the woman as "Antea", the name of a famous 16th-century Roman courtesan, and stated she was the artist's mistress. [ 1 ]