#white robe

[einarbaldvin]

The First Lesson. Ink drawing with brush on paper.

[northstargirl]

Good evening love, time to unwind 🥰💕

[evangelinar]

[yeowninefive]

Verde Verde

PEACE PEACE (*camera flashes*)

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[galleryofart]

Boy in a Turban holding a Nosegay

Artist: Michiel Sweerts (Flemish, 1618-1664)

Date: ca. 1658-1661

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

Description

Boy in a Turban holding a Nosegay has been associated with the group of paintings that Sweerts executed at the end of his Amsterdam period. The subject of the present painting and the sex of the figure have been the focus of debate and have given rise to different interpretations. The gentle, delicate features and the turban hiding the hair make it difficult to define the subject precisely, and the canvas was previously entitled Figure in a Turban. It was only in 1958, when the painting was included in an exhibition on Sweerts in Rotterdam, that the sitter was described as a boy, a reading that has been maintained in the present day.

[model2watch]

[paintingsandhistory]

Octavian and Cleopatra

Artist: Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728-1779)

Date: 1759-1760

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

Octavius Augustus Caesar, nephew and adoptive son of Julius Ceasar, then known as Octavian, but later as the Emperor Augustus, is paying Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, a visit of condolence following the death of Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium (31 BC). He stands at the left and bids the kneeling Cleopatra, dressed in a green robe, to rise. Behind her is a couch beside which two servant girls are standing. In the background, on the right, two Romans stand beside a Doric portico. The subject is taken from Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony (75 AD).