Diego Velàzquez was called the "noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country." He was a master realist‚ and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad‚ sure strokes. "His men and women seem to breathe‚" it has been said; "his horses are full of action and his dogs of life." Because of Velàzquez ’ great skill in merging color‚ light‚ space‚ rhythm of line‚ and mass in such a way that all have equal value‚ he
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This investigation began after viewing an opalotype portrait (fig 1) in the collection of Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) with a photographic image of a suited gentleman printed onto an opaque white glass plate 388mm high by 280mm wide. The image had added detail possibly in a watercolour or ink‚ having a slightly transparent quality. There is a considerable amount of image loss and staining. There is evidence of an oval vignette mount now missing with the exposed areas showing
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and who died in 1847 before she turned twenty-five. The work returns to Poe’s frequent fixation with the Romantic image of a beautiful woman who has died too suddenly in the flush of youth. As indicated more thoroughly in his short story "The Oval Portrait‚" Poe often associated death with the freezing and capturing of beauty‚ and many of his heroines reach the pinnacle of loveliness on their deathbed‚ as with Ligeia of the eponymous story. The poem specifically mentions the youth of the unnamed
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years. It is six-and-a-half feet long by forty-two inches wide and has a seam running down the middle. Directly on this rough‚ burlap-like material is the exquisitely delicate figure of Our Lady‚ four feet‚ eight inches in height. This authentic portrait of the Virgin Mary has remained fresh and lovely for nearly five centuries and may be viewed today at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City where it occupies the place of honor above and behind the main altar. The Feast Day of Our
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evoke fear in me at first ( I am still not sure why!) Perhaps it was the colors and tones which helped to create that unsettling feeling(dramatic effect). Right off‚ I noticed the lines used were soft and smooth‚ like Renoir employs in his paintings/portraits. The emphasis was on the children in the center of the picture. My first impression was that the kids were lost somewhere and very afraid‚ but that idea did not mesh well with me because one the boys seemed to cling to him‚ while the other stared
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Regnault ’s Automedon with the Horses of Achilles Henri Regnault ’s Automedon with the Horses of Achilles looms large in the East wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston‚ Massachusetts. The painting is over ten feet by ten feet in area and is truly spectacular. It is impossible to miss this massive work of art when walking through the hall. The painting is encased by a beautiful wooden frame and hangs in between many other outstanding paintings. This paper will cover a description of the painting
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The main characteristics of Romanesque art:  simple compositions and very linear‚ elongated designs  There is very little sign of figurative imagery or any effort towards naturalistic depiction.  characteristics were meant to inspire the viewer to devout‚ religiously inspired awe and fear of the Creator and of course‚ of His representation here on earth in the body of the Holy Church  religious devotion- scenes of hellish creatures and tormented bodies abound
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Periods and their Artists * Chapter 3 Egypt * Old Kingdom (2700-2190 BCE) * Imhotep – Stepped Pyramid of Djoser * Chapter 5 Ancient Greece * Archaic (600-480 BCE) * Andokides Painter –Achilles and Ajax * Ergotimos –[and Kleitius] Fracois Vase * Euphronios –Death of Sarpedon * Exekias –Achilles and Ajax; Suicide of Ajax; Dionysis in a Boat * Polykleitos –Doryphoros * Classical (480-320 BCE) * Kalikrates
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grammatical form. Each glyph‚ again in theory‚ has a personified or head variant in addition to its symbolic form. Head variants represent humans or humanlike gods‚ animals‚ and supernatural creatures. These are generally depicted as the figure’s portrait turned into the profile. The rarest of all‚ the full-figure variants portray the god or creature’s entire body including the legs‚ head‚ arms‚ and torso. These generally represent the most ornate writing in the Maya system. It seems‚ symbolic
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Mark Rothko Mark Rothko is one of the important figures in the generation of painters. His work still draws attention to many people around the world. Born in Dvinsk‚ Russia (in what is now Latvia)‚ Marcus Rothkovich was the fourth child of Jacob Rothkovich‚ a well to do pharmacist and his wife Anna Rothkovich. As Russia was a hostile environment for Zionist Jews‚ Jacob immigrated to the United States with his two older sons in 1910‚ finally sending for the rest of his
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