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Smiling Girl, A Courtesan, Holding An Obscene Image
''Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image'', also known in Dutch as ''Een Laggende Vrouw met een naakte Pourtraitje in de Hand, waar onder divisje staat'' ("A laughing woman holding a small picture of a nude in her hand, under which is a motto") or ''Jonge vrouw met een medaillon'' ("Young Woman with a Medallion"), is an oil on canvas painting by Gerard van Honthorst, created in 1625. It is held in the Saint Louis Art Museum where it is on view in Gallery 236. It depicts a prostitute dressed in gold and red clothing and pointing at a medallion she is holding up; the medallion depicts a seated naked woman, perhaps the same one, obscuring her face with her hand and captioned in Dutch "Wie kent mijn naers van Afteren" ("Who can recognize my backside from behind?"). The form of the ij in 'mijn' is as a y with an acute accent. She is likely using this medallion to advertise her services, as this was a typical practice of the sex industry in the Netherlands during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honthorst Young Woman Medaillon
Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch: ''Gerrit van Honthorst''; 4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the nickname ''Gherardo delle Notti'' ("Gerard of the Nights"). Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Early life Van Honthorst was born in Utrecht, the son of a decorative painter, and trained under his father, and then under Abraham Bloemaert.Brown (1997), p.62 Italy Having completed his education, Honthorst went to Italy, where he is first recorded in 1616. He was one of the artists from Utrecht who went to Rome at around this time, all of whom were to be deeply influenced by the recent art they encountered there. They were named the Utrecht ''caravaggisti''. The other three were Dirk van Baburen, Hendrick ter Brugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colnaghi & Scott
Colnaghi is an art dealership in St James's, central London, England, which is the oldest commercial art gallery in the world, having been established in 1760. Foundation The business that became the Colnaghi gallery was established by Italian firework manufacturer, Giovanni Battista Torre, in Paris, France, in 1760. Torre opened a shop with the name "Cabinet de Physique Expérimentale", where he sold scientific instruments, books and prints. In 1767, Torre's son Anthony Torre moved to London where he opened a sister shop, specialising in prints, in partnership with another Italian immigrant, Anthony Molteno. Giovanni Torre died in 1780, and in 1784 Anthony Torre hired Paul Colnaghi—newly arrived in Paris from Milan—to manage a new shop in Palais Royal, Paris. Paul Colnaghi (1751-1833) Paul Colnaghi was born in 1751 as Paolo Colnago, in the Brianza region of northern Italy. He was the younger child of the influential Milanese lawyer Dr Martino Colnago and Ippolita Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1625 Paintings
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Utrecht Caravaggism
Utrecht Caravaggism ( nl, Utrechtse caravaggisten) refers to the work of a group of artists who were from, or had studied in, the Dutch city of Utrecht, and during their stay in Rome during the early seventeenth century had become distinctly influenced by the art of Caravaggio.Murray, P. & L. (1996), ''Dictionary of art and artists''. Penguin Books. Upon their return to the Dutch Republic, they worked in a so-called Caravaggist style, which in turn influenced an earlier generation of local artists as well as artists in Flanders. The key figures in the movement were Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, who introduced Caravaggism into Utrecht painting around 1620. After 1630 the artists moved in other directions and the movement petered out. The Utrecht Caravaggisti painted predominantly history scenes and genre scenes executed in a realist style. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleavage (breasts)
Cleavage is the narrow depression or hollow between the breasts of a woman. The superior portion of cleavage may be accentuated by clothing such as a low-cut neckline that exposes the division, and often the term is used to describe the low neckline itself, instead of the term décolletage. Joseph Breen, head of the U.S. film industry's Production Code Administration, coined the term in its current meaning when evaluating the 1943 film '' The Outlaw'', starring Jane Russell. The term was explained in ''Time'' magazine on August 5, 1946. It is most commonly used in the parlance of Western female fashion to refer to necklines that reveal or emphasize ''décolletage'' (display of the upper breast area). In many cultures, though not all, men typically derive erotic pleasure from the visible display of cleavage. This tendency has been attributed to many reasons, including evolutionary psychology, a patriarchal revolution, and dissociation from breastfeeding. Since at least t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting. Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggles, torture, and death. He worked rapidly with live models, preferring to forgo drawings and work directly onto the canvas. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Netherlands, about 35 km south east of the capital Amsterdam and 45 km north east of Rotterdam. It has a population of 361,966 as of 1 December 2021. Utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures, several dating as far back as the High Middle Ages. It has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century. It was the most important city in the Netherlands until the Dutch Golden Age, when it was surpassed by Amsterdam as the country's cultural centre and most populous city. Utrecht is home to Utrecht University, the largest university in the Netherlands, as well as several other institutions of higher education. Due to its central position within the country, it is an important hub for both rail and road t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Art
Events from the year 1954 in art. Events *November 18 – Publication of ''Yves Peintures'' (in Madrid), the first public showing of Yves Klein's work. * December – Pablo Picasso begins painting his ''Les Femmes d'Alger'' ("The Women of Algiers") series in homage to Eugène Delacroix, Delacroix's 1834 in art, 1834 Women of Algiers, painting of the same name and to the memory of Henri Matisse, Matisse. Awards * Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – ''Robert Menzies, Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP'' * New Year Honours – Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire: Jacob Epstein Exhibitions * Augustus John at the Royal Academy Works * Francis Bacon (painter), Francis Bacon ** ''Figure with Meat'' (Art Institute of Chicago) ** ''Two Figures in the Grass'' * Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Thomas Hart Benton – ''The Kentuckian (painting), The Kentuckian'' * John Brack – ''The Bar (painting), The Bar'' (National Gallery of Victoria) * Terence Cuneo ** The Coronation of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Art
Events from the year 1931 in art. Events * February 15 – Abstraction-Création group formed in Paris by Theo van Doesburg to promote non-figurative, non-Surrealism, surrealist art. Other founder members include Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion and Georges Vantongerloo. * October 4 – Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould. * The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in its Whitney Museum of American Art (original building), original building in Greenwich Village, New York City. * The Pierre Matisse Gallery opens in New York City. * Collector Kay Kimbell of Fort Worth, Texas, purchases his first painting, origin of the Kimbell Art Museum. * Henry Moore holds his first solo exhibition of sculptures, at The Leicester Galleries in London. Works * Max Beckmann – ''Paris Society'' * Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Thomas Hart Benton – ''America Today'' * Heitor da Silva Costa and Paul Landowski – ''Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In Art
Events from the year 1929 in art. Events * January 6 – On the death of New York collector Louisine Havemeyer, her collection of paintings, rich in works of Impressionism, is bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. * January 10 – First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets''), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement ''Le Petit Vingtième''. * January 17 – First appearance of E. C. Segar's American sailor comic book hero Popeye in ''Thimble Theatre''. * April 30 – English painters Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead marry. * June 6 – Première of the Surrealist film ''Un Chien Andalou'' by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, in Paris. * July 5 – In London, Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency under the Vagrancy Act 1838. * August 21 – Mexican painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 In Art
Events from the year 1922 in art. Events * February 1 – Akron Art Institute opens in Ohio. * February 10– 17 – Modern Art Week (''Semana de Arte Moderna'') at the Theatro Municipal, São Paulo, marks the start of Modernism in Brazil. * March 5 – Release of influential German silent vampire film ''Nosferatu'' with production design by Albin Grau. * December 16 ** Gabriel Narutowicz, sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic, is assassinated by right-wing modernist painter and art critic Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta art gallery in Warsaw. ** Lady Lever Art Gallery opens in Port Sunlight, England. * December 20 – ''Antigone'' by Jean Cocteau appears on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Atelier in the Montmartre district of Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. There are some protests by Dadaists. * Perm State Art Gallery in the Soviet Union established in a former Orthodox cathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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