Originally from Germany, he served as court painter to a succession of English kings. He painted hundreds of portraits, and a few earl narrative works.
Rembrandt
Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.
Paintings from Rembrandt’s second version to Cézanne and Franz von Stuck show the triumph of privileged male power.
Paintings of this story from Hans Memling to the first of Rembrandt’s show Bathsheba bathing in the foreground while the king looks on as voyeur.
Paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Jordaens, Coypel and an unusual watercolour on ivory by Goya, telling this story.
Largely self-taught, he met with success at the Salon in 1861. His highly individual chiaroscuro style is the antithesis of Impressionism.
In his quest to emulate masters such as Rembrandt and Titian, Reynolds experimented in the preparation and application of his paint, to the detriment of his paintings.
From depth cues used by painters in ancient times, through the many advances in the Northern Renaissance, to modern photographic projections.
An attribute of the goddess Athena (Minerva), it consists of the image of the face of Medusa on a shield or breastplate.
Leonardo da Vinci studied different types of shade and shadow, but recommended painters not to depict cast shadows in their paintings. This explains why.
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