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The Virtuous Athenian Woman by Joseph-Marie Vien (1762). After Vien had studied ancient encaustic painting technique under the archaeologist and writer Anne-Claude-Philippe, Comte de Caylus in the mid-1750s and had created many works in the technique such as Minerva, he gave up on it and shifted to genre scenes set in the classical world.
Floria Sigismondi (born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer; Luisa Silei (1825–1898), landscape painter; Roberta Silva (born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist; Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher; Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), Baroque painter; Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783), painter; Maria Spanò ...
Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway (ma-RYE-ah [citation needed]; née Hadfield; 11 June 1760 – 5 January 1838) was an Italian-English painter, musician, and educator.She worked in England, France, and later Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends and clients, mainly as an initiate of Swedish and French Illuminism and an enthusiastic revivalist of the Masonic Knights Templar [citation ...
The painting is first mentioned in a 1749 inventory at La Granja, and was transferred to its current location by 1857. [1] Recent research shows it was part of the collection of Maria Anna of Pfalz-Neuberg, second wife of Charles II, suggesting it may have been associated with Charles' father Philip IV.
It represents a girl in her early teens, depicted in profile, the usual way in which Italian artists of the 15th century portraited women. The girl's dress and hairstyle indicate that she was a member of the Court of Milan during the 1490s. [1] If it truly is a Renaissance work, it would have been executed in the 1490s according to Kemp and ...
Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia is a 1599 oil-on-canvas painting of Isabella Clara Eugenia by the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola, identified in 1992 by Maria Kusche. [1] Owned by the Museo del Prado , it currently hangs in the Spanish Embassy in Paris.
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The Constellation of Leo (Italian: La costellazione del leone) is a painting made by Carlo Maria Mariani in 1980–1981. It is a group portrait of prominent people from Italy's art world at the time, including Mariani himself, and has the subtitle The School of Rome (Italian: La scuola di Roma). It contains visual references to ancient ...