#idealized portrait

[portrait-paintings]

Self-Portrait

Artist: Angelika Maria Anna Katharina Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)

Date: ca. 1780-1785

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Angelica Kauffmann

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann (1741 – 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter,.

[galleryofart]

The Artist's Studio

Artist: Johann Georg Platzer (Austrian, 1704–1761)

Date: 1740s–1750s

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Description

Johann Georg Platzer specialized in small, highly detailed paintings scaled for a connoisseur’s cabinet. At the center of this composition is an idealized portrait of the artist himself, clad in a fur-lined robe and holding a painting for the inspection of a visiting connoisseur. This work makes a statement about painting as a noble and intellectual pursuit, and the importance of rigorous training and practice: the artist at the easel is surrounded by a studio teeming with live models, pupils, assistants, and inspiring examples of art from earlier eras. The paintings on the wall, easel, and floor not only reference great artists of the past, but together present an allegory of the five senses.

[artandthebible]

Saint Philip

Artist Georges de La Tour (French, 1593-1652)

Date ca. 1625

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Description

De la Tour shows the Christian apostle Saint Phillip as a rough-hewn and humble peasant and captures the startling refractions of light in the simple glass buttons on his coarse tunic.

[salomi]

Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici

Idealized statue of Grand Duke Cosimo I as the Roman emperor Augustus.

- National Museum of Bargello, Florence.