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During the 16th and 17th century, dogs were depicted in hunting scenes, representing social status, as a lap dog, or sometimes as a personal friend. They were also used as symbols in painting. The Greek philosopher Diogenes (404–323 BC) was depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme in the company of dogs, serving as emblems of his "Cynic" (Greek ...
The Woman With A Dog belongs to Fragonard's Figures de Fantaisie (Fantasy Figures) series, with artworks often painted within an hour. While some elements such as the hairstyle, pearls, or the blue and pink colors correspond to the Rococo style, the dress itself is in a 16th/17th-century style, and has been compared to Rubens' portraits of Marie de Médici or Anne of Austria.
This depiction of two coexisting roles was common for sixteenth-century women artists. [34] Legacy ... Portrait of a Lady with Lap Dog, c. 1595 – Walters Art ...
The 19th-century British art collector William John Bankes travelled to Spain during the Peninsular War (1808–1814) and acquired a copy of Las Meninas painted by Mazo, [87] which he believed to be an original preparatory oil sketch by Velázquez—although Velázquez did not usually paint studies. Bankes described his purchase as "the glory ...
On 23 June 2021, the painting was sold at a small auction house in Shropshire with an estimate of £2000-4000. There was a fierce bidding war due to the inherent sociological interest of the allegorical depiction of a dark-skinned woman, and the final sale price was £220,000 with a 20% buyer's premium.
16th-century women artists – female painters, miniaturists, manuscript illuminators, calligraphers, engravers and sculptors born between 1500 and 1600. Asia
Woman at Her Toilet, early 16th-century copy by an unknown Netherlandish artist, 27.2 x 16.3 cm (10¾" x 6½"). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, MA. It shows Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, assisted by her maid as she rises from her indoor bath, as related in 2 Samuel 11. Bathsheba is naked save a robe which the maid is ...
In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country – by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter.