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1 day ago · Commissioned in 1778 to paint the four Elements of Art for the RA’s Council Chamber in Somerset House, Kauffman portrayed Invention as a woman. It was a provocative move since only men were considered capable of creative imagination. (Women might be good at imitating nature, but invention supposedly required masculine genius).
1 day ago · Trained at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts and School of Design under the legendary Filipino artists Fernando Amorsolo and Victorio Edades, it was ironically an encounter with a painting of women in the fields by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder whilst studying in the United States that led Magsaysay-Ho to ...
3 days ago · Detail. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is Gustav Klimt’s most significant work of portraiture. The famous Lady in Gold has as many eye-catching decorative elements as it does stories to tell. It begins with a portrait commission by a high-society Austrian couple and culminates with a cross-continental legal battle a century later.
4 days ago · Anna Hotchkis was born in 1885 in Crookston, a southern suburb of Glasgow. The Hotchkis family was large – Anna had three sisters and six brothers (although only one of her brothers survived to ...
2 hours ago · French Socialite Locked In Attic For 25 Years. The tragic tale of a young French Socialite Blanche Monnier who was imprisoned by her mother for 25 years is a shocking tale from the 19th century that still haunts the atrocities women went through. A lost light from 19th-century French socialite society, who mysteriously disappeared from high ...
2 days ago · Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions ...
20 hours ago · Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Woman Kansuke, 1865 Comments - Great kabuki portrait of Sawamura Tanosuke III as Onna (Woman) Kansuke, looking up with a sly smile. She wears striking kimono with a fierce hawk over the shoulders over a suit of armor, a lantern in her hand at lower right.
