Susanna and the Elders by the Italian painter Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (1535-1607). As a good Mannerist artist Allori shows above all what he is capable of. There are strange movements, packed action and not least a perfect body. I especially like her little dog which is defending its mistress.
Delilah (1948) by the great Australian born artist Henry Clive.
Clive started in the 1920's painting Ziegfeld Girls, then big stars like Gloria Swanson and Polga Negri for promo campaigns. Later he painted covers for American Weekly. He specialized in elegant glamorous women. His Delilah here is represented by the American singer and actress Beryl Wallace.
The British actresses Rachel Weisz and Rhona Mitra with snakes. Despite it looks quite fashionable it’s not least a modern interpretation of the old biblical myths od Eva, Lilith the Snake Goddess and the female evil. But probably that’s what it makes so interesting today.
Furthermore it should be noticed that the postures are entirely copied from 19th century paintings.
Bathsheba (1875-77) by the French painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Cézanne painted various versions of Bathsheba. I think, it was a good excuse to paint a nude in open-air. Here she has a servant, indicating that she’s probably bathsheba, in the background is a temple indicating the ancient world. Only king David on his balcony is missing.
Work in Progress - Autumn Personified
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30”x40” acrylic on cradled wood panel
I started this piece earlier in Spring. I had a few ‘start overs’.
Initially, I
had the intentions of painting sum...
Joseph Farquharson
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[image: Joseph Farquharson, Self Portrait, Portraits of Painters, Fine
arts, Portraits of painters blog, Paintings of Joseph Farquharson, Painter
Joseph ...
Glasgow Art School on Fireagain
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Just several years after Mackintosh’s School of Art caught fire, and was
repaired, it catches fire again. As this photo from the Guardian shows, the
damage...
Dans la serre (En el invernadero) - Edouard Manet
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Escribe *A. Corbin* en su libro "*The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the
French Social Imagination"* que: "*La proliferación de invernaderos en el
sig...
Illustrating Books
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With Cortes the conqueror (1917), by Virginia Watson. The book was
illustrated by the great American artist Frank Earle Schoonover
(1877-1972). Schoonove...
The Music Lesson, paintings
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*Tamara de Lempicka *
Xue Yanqun
Giovanni Lanfranco
Johannes Vermeer
[image: paintings of music girl by Daniel Maclise]
Daniel Maclise
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Historienbild
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Eine neue im Harem von dem Franzosen Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse
(1859-1938). Rochegrosse verbindet wieder einmal Historien- mit
Orientmalerei.
American Galleries
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AMERICAN GALLERY: 18th Century AMERICAN GALLERY: 19th Century AMERICAN
GALLERY: 20th Century AMERICAN GALLERY: 21st Century Hope you enjoy it!
Pulp Space Babe
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This campaign for Absolut Vodka by Ellen von Unwerth in 2010 is quoting the
old science fiction movies. Very nice represented by Sybil Danning in
"Space 19...