Edgar Degas was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Degas’s principal subject was the human figure, which he explored in studies of laundresses, c
Extant artists’ frames inpâte coulantefrom the late 19thcentury are rare and therefore seldom available for structural analysis. One exception is an extremely complicated period frame inpâte coulanteattributed to Maison Cluzel (above), which was once owned by the Parisian antique frame dealer...
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March 12, 2024sardaxartBookpainting,reblog,Watercolour I quite forgot to blog about this painting I made last year for the cover of a new e-book by Irv O. Neil. Last summer I had received a commission to make a painting of a female pirate, and the idea was born of using it as the...
Marie-Antoinette spent the remainder of her life in Parisian prisons. The princess de Lamballe, who remained loyal to the queen throughout the Revolution, was imprisoned along with her. Lamballe refused to take an oath against the monarchy, and on September 3, 1792, she was delivered to the...
SOME say it was P46 million and others place it at P50 million, but whatever it might be, almost everyone agrees that this was too much to pay for Juan Luna's Parisian Life.Manila Bulletin
The empathy and exactness of this description recalls the portraits of Parisian down-and-outers that we know from Rilke’sNew Poemsvolumes, if you could imagine Rilke having come from New Jersey, having steeped himself in the in the work of the Wu-tang Clan, and having written the first dr...
Moreover, on the night of 9–10 February 1651, when Louis was twelve, a mob of angry Parisians broke into the royal palace and demanded to see their king. Led into the royal bed-chamber, they gazed upon Louis, who was feigning sleep, were appeased, and then quietly departed.[24] ...
Monet included the artistGustave Courbetin the painting. The painting in its whole form shows twelve people. They are clothed in Parisian clothing which was fashionable at that time. They are having a picnic in near a forest glade. All the people are gathered around a white picnic blanket, ...
Still Life with sleeping woman, 1940 One may well ask, asHenri Matissewas best known for his models being clad in Moroccan or Parisian attire, rather then in Romanian ethnic dress or better still, not clad at all… So, why a Romanian Blouse, out of the blue?