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The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin [1] (1911–1981). This was the pen-name of the painter Bruno Amarillo. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls. [1]
'Bruno Amadio' (9 November 1911 – 22 September 1981), popularly known as Bragolin, and also known as Angelo Bragolin and Giovanni Bragolin, was the creator of the group of paintings known as Crying Boys. [1] The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead. They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although ...
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Inheritance (Norwegian: Arv; 1897–1899) is an oil painting on canvas created by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944). It depicts a mother with syphilis holding her baby, who is affected by congenital syphilis. Munch completed the work after visiting the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, where he saw a woman crying for her child with ...
Bush wrote the descriptive prose that accompanies each painting. Bush donated his share of the proceeds from the book to the non-profit George W. Bush Presidential Center. The book is available as a hardcover and in a limited edition signed by Bush, a deluxe oversized cloth-bound book with a specially designed slipcover. [3]
These paintings which admired the marvels of unexplored American territory emphasized this idea of America as a promised land. [288] Common themes explored among paintings within the Hudson River School include: discovery; exploration; settlement and promise. These themes were recurrent in other displays of artistic expression at this time.
Madonna and Child with Saints (1590–1592) Madonna and Child with Saints is a 1590-1592 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. [1] The painting was made for the church of the now deconsecrated Franciscan Monastery of Santi Ludovico e Alessio, located on Via del Pratello, in Bologna.
Millais likely used Albrecht Dürer's print Melancholia I as a source for this imagery, along with Quattrocento works. The sheep in the sheepfold seen through the door represent the future Christian flock. [1] It has been suggested that Millais was influenced by John Rogers Herbert's painting Our Saviour Subject to His Parents at Nazareth. [2]