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The Tribute Money
The Tribute Money was a painting of a religious subject large mural (at that time the mural was a very popular style in Italy), which was a representative of the works of Masaccio. Different people and different scenes were true with a sense of volume. Each expression and action was to be described from the difference between them from the …
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Tagged Early Renaissance, introduction, Italian painter, Masaccio, religious oil painting
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The Portrait of the Chouan Rochejaquelin
If in those lady portraits of Ingres, lines were subject to the colors he despised in a way, then in The Portrait of the Chouan Rochejaquelin, the stronger component was not the color, but the sketch deserving more thought. Facing the real figure, the thick and strict lines extended his portrait art to a more declarative world.
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The Source
Introduction to The Source
The Source was a canvas painting made by the famous neoclassical French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in 1856. It measured 163 x 80cm (some say 164 x 82 cm), and was preserved in Orsay Le Louvre Museum, which was one of the excellent works describing female human bodies. The Source was probably brewed during Ingres’s …
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Tagged Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, oil painting, paintings, The Source
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Ambassadors Sent By Agamemnon To Urge
Ambassadors Sent By Agamemnon To Urge was historical figure painting made by Ingres with full enthusiasm at the age of 20 years old. And it was also his first official historical figure painting. What the painting depicted was the content in 9th volume of the famous epic Iliad by the ancient blind Greek poet Homa. In “Troy’s war”, the Greek …
The Return Of The Prodigal Son
The Return Of The Prodigal Son was made by the the Holland painter Rembrandt. Maybe some people’s feelings can only end in sorrow! Sweet love is only flower briefly as the broad-leaved epiphyllous, which is more painful and helpless! Defenders of the feudal love posed as a person of high morals cannot tolerate Rembrandt’s love for this nanny woman. …
The Nightwatch
Introduction to The Nightwatch
The Nightwatch was a famous painting of Holland painter Rembrandt in the 17th century. Now it is preserved in the Holland Museum of Amsterdam. This painting depicted the captain and vice-captain (two characters in the painting). Because of the dim light, this painting was mistaken the depiction of the night. The characters in the painting were …
The Supper at Emmaus
One of Rembrandt‘s religious painting masterpieces was The Supper At Emmaus. The painting showed that in a village called Emmaus, people were talking about Jesus’s murder on the table. At this time, a stranger around them spoke and gave each person a piece of bread to invite him to dine together. Then people suddenly discovered in surprise that this …
Holy Family
Holy Family was made by the Holland painter Rembrandt. This painting showed the peaceful and happy secular life. The hostess was dedicated to nursing the baby on her bosom and the old lady besides her was perhaps the hostess’s mother who was lovingly watched the child. The host’s back was toward them, bowing to do his own work. It seemed …
Man In A Bowler Hat
Most portraits of Rene Magritte were completed in 1930. His portraits needed to be made a quotation mark, because most works had no portraits and were replaced by other scenery such as seascape, still life. The audience was terrified for this. His real portraits, especially the close-up portraits, never painted face. Here the painting Man In A Bowler Hat…
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Tagged bowler hat, gentleman, oil painting, Oil portrait, Rene Magritte, self image, Surrealism
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Forbidden Literature The Use of The Word
Before knowing Italian surrealist painter Chirico, Ernst and Rene Magritte (1898.11-1967.8) had been engaged in advertising and wallpaper design. At that time, he was just a not very good advertising designer. In 1927, he came to Paris and his works were firstly encouraged by Britton who said his idea “characteristics of the displayed image language and thought had gone beyond …
