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With one eye closed, the artist can, by sliding a thumb up or down the brush handle, take the measure of an object or interval. This finding is compared against other objects or intervals, with the brush still kept at arm's length. Informed by such measurements, the artist can paint what the eye sees without the use of conventional perspective ...
An arm's length relationship is distinguished from a fiduciary relationship, where the parties are not on an equal footing, but rather, power and information asymmetries exist. It is also one of the key elements in international taxation as it allows an adequate allocation of profit taxation rights among countries that conclude double tax ...
Three-quarter length; life size. She sits, seen in full face, in an arm-chair, and looks straight out of the picture. She holds her right hand, grasping a black feather fan by its gold chain, to her bosom; her left hand rests on a table beside her to the right.
Portrait of a Man with a Magnifying Glass, possibly Pieter Haaringh: 1665: Oil on canvas: 91.4 x 74.3: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 311a: Companion piece to 311b Portrait of a Woman with a Carnation, possibly Lysbet Jansdr Delft: 1665: Oil on canvas: 92.1 x 74.6: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 311b: Companion piece to 311a
The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, [1] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born.
Johnson' first dated work is 1617, and may be of a Dutch subject; 1619 marks the beginning of his English portraits, which were initially heads only, although he later painted full-length and group portraits. [19] For painting a portrait, Johnson liked to charge £5 [20] compared with a more typical figure of 10s – 20s. [21]
Tester praised Vice President Harris when she became President Biden’s running mate back in 2020, but he has kept her 2024 presidential bid at arm’s length.
The work was Cranach's first official portrait, [1] and depicts Henry IV, Duke of Saxony and his wife Catherine of Mecklenburg at about life-size. They are among the earliest northern full-length portraits. Both wear lavishly decorated clothes and decorations recalling their families' coat of arms.