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Guda was a 12th-century nun and illuminator from Germany. [1] She was one of the first woman to create a self-portrait in a manuscript, [2] setting a precedent for female medieval illuminators and manuscript writers in the subsequent centuries.
Velázquez 's painting is significant in detailing the nun's aged physical features while simultaneously capturing her sainthood. Vicente Carducho writes in his 1633 treatise on art, Diálogos de la Pintura, that Jerónima "evokes the legitimate love of parents, siblings, relatives, or friends" and would help ease the pain of absence felt by the "house of nuns" in Toledo. [12]
Las Meninas, painted in 1656, shows Diego Velázquez working at the easel to the left.. Self-portraiture has a long history. In Reynolds & Peter's analysis, the handprints that prehistoric humanity left in cave paintings can be considered precursors of the self-portrait, as they are a direct document of the author's presence in the creative act and his perception of the existence of a "self".
Daniel Guda (born 1996), Australian badminton player; Guda (nun), 12th-century nun and illuminator; Guda Anjaiah (1955–2016), Indian author; Idi Othman Guda (1941–2015), Nigerian politician; Trudi Guda (born 1940), Surinamese poet and anthropologist
Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who died after they withheld insulin needed to treat her diabetes because ...
The film’s final shot centers on three nuns, all laughing. Isabella Rossellini stars as Sister Agnes in director Edward Berger's Conclave. “I think there is this sense of claustrophobia ...
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