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"Reclining Nude" (2013) ◉ Allan O'Marra — oil painting
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"Reclining Nude" (2013) ◉ Allan O'Marra — oil painting
Portrait of Madame Augustine Bertin de Veaux
Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
Date: 1809
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Collection
Depicted Person:
Augustine Bocquet (1780-1849), wife (1798) of Louis-François Bertin de Veaux.
Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor
Artist: Frank Cadogan Cowper, R.A. (British, 1877-1958
Date: 1920
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private collection
Description
Fair Rosamund was the mistress of King Henry II. He built a `bower’ for her at Woodstock, and surrounded it by a maze which only she and the king could penetrate. Nevertheless, Henry’s jealous wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, found her way to the tower by means of a thread. There, according to most accounts, she poisoned her rival. Cowper however, has upped the tension and placed a dagger at her belt.
Flower of Fields
Artist: Louis Janmot (French, 1814–1892)
Date: 1845
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France
Saint John the Evangelist
Artist: Juan Ribalta (Spanish, 1596-1628)
Date: ca. 1618-1624
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
The Reward of Virtue
Artist: Attributed to David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (Swedish, 1628-1698)
Date: 1680
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Depicted People:
Charles XI of Sweden
Description:
This allegory shows a personification of Virtue, a central concept in the 17th century, in her blue mantle, leading a male figure, draped in a contrasting red, up into the heavens and crowning him with a laurel wreath. They are accompanied by a pair of genii holding a banner with the title and the painter’s signature. Intended for the king’s audience chamber at Ulriksdal, the work summed up the lessons Ehrenstrahl had learnt from contemporary Italian Baroque painting.
The Three Fates (cf. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, cantos 34-35)
Artist: Il Sodoma (Italian, 1477–1549) Renaissance
Date: ca. 1525
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy
Orlando Furioso
Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532. Orlando furioso is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love, published posthumously in 1495). In its historical setting and characters, it shares some features with the Old French La Chanson de Roland of the eleventh century, which tells of the death of Roland. The story is also a chivalric romance which stemmed from a tradition beginning in the late Middle Ages and continuing in popularity in the 16th century and well into the 17th.
Maria de’ Medici, Queen of France
Artist: Frans Pourbus the Younger (Flemish, 1569-1622)
Date: 1611
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Description
Marie de’ Medici (1575 – 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII. Her mandate as regent legally expired in 1614, when her son reached the age of majority, but she refused to resign and continued as regent until she was removed by a coup in 1617.