An English Frigate In The Bay Of Naples by John Thomas Serres
Figures on a beach near Naples by Giovanni Serritelli
View of Brussels from the NorthEast by Hercules Seghers
Cattle watering in a River Landscape, believed to be Chile by Thomas Jacques Somerscales
The Castle of Ischia by Clarkson Stanfield
Landscape with Rocky Hills and Stream by William Louis Sonntag
Landscape with Waterfall and Figures by William Louis Sonntag
The Tale Of Kynon by George Sheringham
An Extensive River landscape, Probably Derbyshire, With Drovers And Their Cattle In The Foreground by Jan Siberechts
Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames by Jan Siberechts
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Loading...In 1621, Ferdinando Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua, commissioned a series of The Story of Venus for his Villa Favorita. Completed in 1633, these pictures are enlarged versions of the round compositions of a cycle formerly executed for the prince Borghese towards 1615-17. The Toilet of Venus belongs to the series.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Womanly love, simple affections and childlike adoration are probably more endured than expected perhaps. However, Sims has gone all the way to imagine himself in this position and paint it for hours. The beautiful blue of the sheath is something men usually like around their women, bedroom and beds. Be it curtains, lighting drapes, bedsheets, a woman’s clothing drape or any such swishing element is always a place to dig. Back to the painting – Digging in your head, or snuggling into your favorite smell are all feelings and words you can never think of someone having propped up into a vivid painting – but that is exactly what Sims has done! The thistle in the foreground, almost buried in the subtlety of Sims’ colors […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Francesco Albani, an exponent of the classical ideal, chose a format for his four tondos which, in his own words, “softened” his pictorial expression. The subject matter is taken from Philostratus (Eikones I,6) who describes the games of cupids throughout the four seasons: throwing apples in spring, the fiery furnace of summer, Venus and Adonis taking their farewell in autumn and sleep in winter.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Francesco Albani, an exponent of the classical ideal, chose a format for his four tondos which, in his own words, “softened” his pictorial expression. The subject matter is taken from Philostratus (Eikones I,6) who describes the games of cupids throughout the four seasons: throwing apples in spring, the fiery furnace of summer, Venus and Adonis taking their farewell in autumn and sleep in winter.
