Raphael (1483–1520), Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi Rossi (1517-19), oil on panel, 155.5 x 119.5 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.
This is a table of contents for the series Sheer Delight, looking at the depiction of clothing, fabrics and textiles in paintings. For those discussing the work of specific painters, a list of those featured in that article is given.
Introduction
Goya’s clothed and nude majas, and a brief historical survey of the depiction of clothing and textiles.
James Tissot (1836–1902), Portrait of Mrs Catherine Smith Gill and Two of her Children (detail) (1877), oil on canvas, 152.5 x 101.5 cm, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England. Wikimedia Commons.
The depiction of surface textures of fabrics using oil paint, to Leonardo da Vinci, 1506.
Antonello
Bellini
Leonardo da Vinci
Giorgione
van der Weyden
van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (1390-1441), The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (detail) (c 1435) oil on panel, 66 x 62 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris (WikiArt).
Details in clothing and fabrics in the paintings of Raphael, and the more painterly approach of Veronese.
Bassano
Raphael
Veronese
Raphael (Rafael Sanzio de Urbino) (1483–1520), Portrait of Pope Julius II (detail) (1511), oil on poplar wood, 108.7 x 81 cm, National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons.
The painterly approach giving the impression of fabric properties.
Rembrandt
Rubens
Veronese
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-69), Belshazzar’s Feast (detail) (c 1635-8), oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm, The National Gallery, London. Courtesy of the National Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons.
Clothing in eighteenth century portraits.
Carriera
de Troy
Fragonard
Gainsborough
Kauffmann
Le Brun
Reynolds
Watteau
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse) (detail) (1760), oil on canvas, 134.9 x 197.2 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. Wikimedia Commons.
Uniformity in Neoclassicism, and the painterliness of Romanticism.
Courbet
David
Delacroix
Ingres
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Angelica and the Wounded Medoro (detail) (c 1860), oil on canvas, 81 × 65.1 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Wikimedia Commons.
Impressionism.
Bouguereau
Degas
Manet
Monet
Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971) (1914), oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.7 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Wikimedia Commons.
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Arab Woman (1905-06), watercolour and gouache on off-white wove paper, 45.7 x 30.5 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Wikimedia Commons.
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), Strolling along the Seashore (1909), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Museo Sorolla, Madrid, Spain. Wikimedia Commons.
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