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The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Although Magritte had already completed a few versions by 1953, a retrospective at the 1954 Venice Biennale included a 1954 version (now in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) that attracted several collectors with expectations of buying the painting.
The Bewitched Man (also known as The Devil's Lamp) is a painting completed c. 1798 by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. [1] It is an oil painting on canvas and depicts a scene from a play by Antonio de Zamora called The man bewitched by force (Spanish: El hechizado por fuerza). The painting shows the protagonist, Don Claudio, who believes he ...
The Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate is an oil painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, from c. 1805. It is the source for the 1810–11 portrait of her by Goya or his studio. It is held in the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin. In 1900 it was put on show in Madrid and stated to be owned by Doña Adelaida Gil y Zárate.
An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects is a book written by the Spanish painter Antonio Palomino and dedicated to the biographies of the most eminent artists who worked in Spain during the so-called Siglo de Oro, the golden age of Spanish art.
An engraver and altarpiece painter, his works are largely unknown today. He wrote Antiquity of the Art of Painting (1696), promoting the dignity of painting and advocating for an Academy modelled on the French example—a goal unrealized in his lifetime. His manuscript, published only in 1967 (by Yale University), reflects deep erudition but ...
Antônio Francisco Lisboa (c. 29 August 1730 or 1738 – 18 November 1814), better known as Aleijadinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [aleiʒaˈdʒiɲu], lit. ' little cripple '), was a sculptor, carver and architect of Colonial Brazil, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil.
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His art is characterised by the use of bright colours, especially blue. He was a contemporary and colleague of Antônio Francisco Lisboa (Aleijadinho). In the period 1781 to 1818 he completed and gilded Aleijadinho's images for the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos in Congonhas and the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Ouro Preto .