Pisanello detail
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The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, 1875
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Rembrandt, Portrait of Maria Trip (detail), 1639.
This beautifully dressed young woman is Maria Trip, the daughter of a rich Amsterdam merchant. Rembrandt - who was at this time one of the most important portrait painters in Amsterdam - painted her in 1639. Maria was twenty years old and still unmarried. Two years later she married Balthasar Coymans who had gathered a fortune in business. He was thirty years older than Maria.
Rembrandt has made the most of Maria’s rich clothes and jewellery by playing with the light and shade. A small light dances in each pearl. Even the thick folds of her black clothes shine with the light. The gossamer-fine linen is brilliantly depicted: the black fabric of the dress on her shoulders and the skin tones of her chest, glimmer through the white. She is holding a folded fan with a ribbon of gold lace that falls across her hand. Throughout the painting, Rembrandt has added subtle edges of shadow: in the sleeves, along the collar and on her hand.
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detail from the Ghent Altarpiece; completed 1432
which lest ye forget you can explore in LITERALLY A BILLION PIXELS now
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2 weeks ago on May 12, 2012 at 06:31pm
photo Karel Dujardin (1626-78): Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life (detail). 1663.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (detail), 1486.
Goya “The Great He Goat or Witches Sabbath” ca 1821- 23, Detail
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Titian, Flora (detail), c. 1515.
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1 month ago on April 25, 2012 at 06:50pm
New collections/art have been added to the Google Art Project, among which my absolute favourite painting in the whole wide world: The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Go enjoy this beauty and its gorgeous details.
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer (detail), 1528
