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The etching, 1764, based on the lost painting, published by John Boydell. Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to make a major study of the subject of Romani people, [1] [2] beginning with two paintings in the 1750s, the first of which he never finished, and the second of which is now lost, but survives in an etching by Gainsborough.
La Zingarella (literally The Little Gypsy Girl) is a 49 x 37 cm oil-on-panel painting executed ca. 1516–17 by the Italian Renaissance painter Correggio.It shows the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, although (as also seen in works around the same time by Dosso Dossi [1]) it omits the figure of Saint Joseph.
The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead. They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although there is nothing specifically linking them to the Romani people. He was an academically trained painter, working in post-war Venice as painter and restorer, producing the Crying Boy pictures for tourists. At least ...
The New York art dealer spotted the painting at a barn sale in the Hamptons. Heffel Fine Art Auction House “I see a lot of very interesting things (but) this one is … the most significant ...
A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [ 1 ] : 89–90, 168 [ 2 ] : 138 The name v ardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [ 3 ]
We live in a culture of mixed values and garbled messages. My works are crafted from the disregarded and disparate objects of the car boot sale and the charity shop." [5] For an installation in 2014, Le Bas recreated 'containment compounds' used to control Gypsy families by British authorities at the start of the 20th century. [6]