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Short Films. Added: 27 Mar, 2024. Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Portrait of an Unknown Woman’ was created in c.1630 by Anthony van Dyck in Baroque style.
The glorious colours in this portrait are equalled by the delicacy and sensitivity with which Van Dyck has captured an intimate moment between us and an unknown woman and her little boy. She wears the formal clothing of an affluent bourgeois wife: a black silk dress with an elaborate gold stomach...
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) Portrait of an Unknown lady 1634-35. Oil on canvas | 208.3 x 118.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404399. Queen's Gallery, Windsor Castle. ©. Description. Portrait of a Woman is a fine example of Van Dyck’s full-length portraiture.
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1627 - 1632. Oil on canvas. Not on display. Wearing black, with a broad, Spanish-style ruff collar and a three-strand necklace that she grasps in her right hand, this lady is presented to the viewer as serene and haughty. Van Dyck worked nearly a century after Anthonis Mor.
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Van Dyck was the most important Flemish painter of the 17th century after Rubens, whose works influenced the young Van Dyck. He also studied and was profoundly influenced by the work of Italian artists, above all, Titian.
Van Dyck was an extremely successful portraitist and painter of religious and mythological pictures in Antwerp and Italy. He was also an accomplished draughtsman and etcher. However, he is now best remembered for his elegant representations of Charles I and his court.
Van Dyck was born in Antwerp. A precocious artist, his first independent works date from 1615-16, when he would have been about 17. In 1621 he was in the service of James I of England, but left to visit Italy, where he remained until 1627. His aristocratic rendering of Genoese patricians, like the so-called 'Balbi Children', were very well received...
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The glorious colours in this portrait are equalled by the delicacy and sensitivity with which Van Dyck has captured an intimate moment between us and an unknown woman and her little boy. She looks out at us with a shy half-smile that seems to invite us to share in her pride in the child.
