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F. Luis Mora
The Artist in His Studio, 1905Oil on canvas, 16 x 12Collection of Dr. Marvin and Mrs. Rhoda Kantor
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Mora dedicated his career to imbue American painting with the techniques of the great Spanish masters. He often noted that his role as an artist was “the expression of beauty.” In 1910 he wrote, “Art is the whispering of the great voice of nature.” Despite his great success he suffered tragedies, too, and by the end of his life he had become virtually forgotten.
Mattatuckmuseum.org

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Garden, Giovanni Giacometti. Swiss (1868 - 1933) Father of Alberto and Diego Giacometti and architect Bruno Giacometti.

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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
1509FrescoCappella Sistina, Vatican

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Head study, by Antony Micallef

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Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929)Marguerite au SabbatOil on canvas

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Frits Thaulow

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Edouard Manet
The Conservatory
1879
Oil on canvas
45x59in
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Manet preferred compositions with two figures as opposed to the straightforward portrait form because it opened up the possibility of interesting dialogue situations. The double portrait of Jules Guillemet and his wife, painted in the conservatory of the painter Johann Georges Otto Rosen, is one of the most important of these works because of the sensitivity with which it uses the most delicate nuances of colours and contrasts to describe and re-connect the psychologically tense, only outwardly detached, relationship of the two figures.
The theme of the picture is the interplay between the elegant lady (the owner of a fashion shop in Paris) and the gentlemen turned in her direction. He seems rather small due to the way he is bending over and brushes against the upper edge of the picture, while the feminine beauty with the effortless noblesse of her extended posture occupies a large part of the picture space. Despite their being separated by the back of the seat, with its own graphic appeal by virtue of its transparency, the understated focal point of this rich conservatory scene with all its plant forms and subtle colours is the hands approaching each other.
Gandalf’s Gallery

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Caravaggio (1571-1610)Medusa (Detail)Oil on canvas mounted on wood1598-159955 x 60 cm(21.65” x 23.62”)Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Italy)
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In Greek myth, Perseus used the severed snake-haired head of the Gorgon Medusa as a shield with which to turn his enemies to stone. By the sixteenth century Medusa was said to symbolize the triumph of reason over the senses; and this may have been why Cardinal Del Monte commissioned Caravaggio to paint Medusa as the figure on a ceremonial shield presented in 1601 to Ferdinand I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The poet Marino claimed that it symbolized the Duke’s courage in defeating his enemies.
Web Gallery of Art

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Most popular paintings (May, 2012)

May was a month of great discoveries! Time to review the most ‘hyped’ artworks…

What do you guys think of them? :)

1) Homeless, by Thomas Kennington

2) St. Michael, by Luca Fa Presto

3) Take Your Son, Sir, by Ford Madox Brown

4) The Fisherman and the Syren, by Lord Frederick Leighton

5) Sunset - Medusa, by Eugene Berman

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Frits Thaulow (1847-1906)On The Grand Canal, VeniceOil on panel188536 x 52 cm(14.17” x 20.47”)Private collection

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Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
The Bed
1897
Oil on panel
Private collection

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Icarus and Daedalus, by Frederic Leighton
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Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Daedalus tried his wings first, but before taking off from the island, warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea in the area which today bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.

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Queen Guinevere, by John Collier

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qydjun asked: I love your new avatar :)

Thank you! It’s from a very special painting… <3

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Arkhipov Abram

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