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Simon Vouet was born on January 9, 1590, in Paris. [3] His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him the rudiments of art. Simon's brother Aubin Vouet was also a painter, as also was Simon's wife Virginia da Vezzo, their son Louis-René Vouet, their two sons-in-law, Michel Dorigny and François Tortebat, and their grandson Ludovico Dorigny.
The Bath of Venus, 1751 – National Gallery of Art, Washington. With Boucher, the sumptuous Baroque was transformed into the gallant Rococo . The best representative and principal author the era's taste, Boucher used his imagination and virtuosity in exploring themes such as pastorals, bucolic landscapes, and mythological scenes dedicated to ...
Venus with a Mirror (c. 1555) is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and it is considered to be one of the collection's highlights. [ 1 ] The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de' Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may have seen when he wrote that ...
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The Rokeby Venus (/ ˈ r oʊ k b i / ROHK-bee; also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid and, in Spanish, La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.
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In 1634, Aubin Vouet worked on the chapel in the Château-Vieux (Old Castle) at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. At around the same time he was also active in his brother Simon's Parisian school (notably alongside François Tortebat, Michel Dorigny, Michel Corneille l'Ancien, Nicolas Chaperon, Charles Poërson) and helped complete some of Simon's paintings.
English: This painting is a replica of the work executed by François Boucher in 1743 (oil on oval canvas, 101.6 x 87.6 cm; New-York, private collection) and a pendant to inv. 7656, The Triumph of Venus