Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The male model was an anonymous soldier who died from consumption shortly afterwards. The two models never actually met. Millais' son explained that they both posed with wooden props. The soldier "clasped a lay-figure to his breast, while the fair lady leant on the bosom of a man of wood."
William Hogarth FRSA (/ ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑːr θ /; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.
Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple.
Portrait of Lord Mansfield; Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni; Marquis de Lafayette (Morse) Portrait of Ugolino Martelli; Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa; Portrait of Maurice, Prince of Orange; Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici; Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child; The Melancholic Man; Portrait of a Man (Hans Memling) The Merry Drinker ...
'Tronie' of a Young Man with Gorget and Beret, formerly Self-portrait as a young man, 1639–40, Uffizi, Florence ' Tronie' of a Young Man with Gorget and Beret, formerly known as Self-portrait as a young man (both with variant titles) is a tronie portrait of a young man that was traditionally regarded as one of over 40 painted self-portraits by Rembrandt. [1]
While Dutch portrait painting avoids the swagger and excessive rhetoric of the aristocratic Baroque portraiture current in the rest of 17th-century Europe, the sombre clothing of male and in many cases female sitters, and the Calvinist feeling that the inclusion of props, possessions or views of land in the background would show the sin of ...
Among Antonello's portraits, it is among the most expressively animated. The subject, a young man, is drawn from a quite near point of view, with the master's usual skill in rendering detail. The work has been dated approximately to the early 1470s, based on the typical "zuccotto" headgear, a fashion more characteristic of 1460s Italy.
The oil on canvas painting measures 101.1 cm × 147.5 cm (39.8 in × 58.1 in). It may have been commissioned by George III and it is held in the Royal Collection.It draws inspiration from Raphael's School of Athens, with the artist Joshua Reynolds and the anatomist William Hunter taking the roles of Plato and Aristotle in a new "School of London".