Perdita (1866) by Frederick Sandys
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Tag Archives: oil-painting
Eyeway to Shell
Masques made with Seashells by Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-79) (click for larger)
Previously pre-posted:
• Eyeway to Ell — a better paronamasia than this one…
Fur King Hal
Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543)
The Power of Pucelle
Gustave Moreau, L’Apparition (1876-7)
Ruff Stuff
Zelfportret (1601) by Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) (pron. roughly OO-tuh-vaal), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Previously pre-posted:
• She-Shell — Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (1611) by Wtewael
Brush Bloke
Autoritratto (1902) di Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Ju Dunnit
Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (c. 1612), Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)
Interesting facts in-terms-of-issues-around this painting, known as Judith with the Head of Holofernes in English: according to Allori’s first biographer Filippo Baldinucci, the severed head is a self-portrait of Allori, the decapitatrix is an ex-girlfriend, Maria di Giovanni Mazzafirri, and the old servant is her mother (from A Face to the World, Laura Cumming, 2009).
Gorgeous George
King George III in Coronation Robes by Allan Ramsay (c. 1765)
White Wight with Witch-Wife
Gustave Moreau, Jason et Médée (1865)
Beauty and the Beak
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, The Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1874)
