Portrait of a Lady

up. This particular painting is called, ‘The Temple Family’, They are all well presented, and dressed in proper attire; This particular painting was started in 1780 and it took two years to be fully completed. This family portrait has been said to have be painted for the portrait room at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire. The inclusion of the Medici Vase behind the family is a reminder of the Italianate gardens at…

Portraiture, being for the purpose of flattery, plays a perfect role in examining this idea. ‘The Ditchley Potrait’ produced by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger in 1592 (Figure 1) will be used here to compare against Mary Tudor portraits and analyzed for specific elements that show how Elizabeth wished to be portrayed. In ‘The Ditchley Potrait,’ Elizabeth I is pictured as a divine, powerful, and symbolic Queen, in comparison, Mary I is generally depicted as a mortal, subservient…

The Portrait of Louise Antoinette Scholastique Gueheneuce, Madame la Marechale Lannes, Dechesse de Montebello, with her Children, is a French work of art created in 1814. Measuring approximately a hundred and two inches in height, oil on canvas this portrait portrays the widow and her children in bright colors showing the importance of the family. Mounted on the wall surrounded within a copper frame that has spiraling butterfly figure. Located next to many other European arts within the Museum…

This painting is called Lady with an Ermine. This painting is oil on a wooden panel and the person in the painting is a woman named Cecilia Gallerani. The painting is displayed in the Czartoryski Museum, in Krakow, Poland. Leonardo da vinci made many famous paintings. He…

signified, which together constitute the sign itself. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde is dealing with these two concepts - signifier and signified - which acquire quite unexpected roles. While it is not the only symbolic element in the novel, the portrait of Dorian Gray is by far the most evident and central symbol, the theme, around which the story rotates. When used as a literary device, symbolism means to instill objects with a certain meaning that is different from their original…

like having a barbecue and the guy is in charge, we see it as normal as them doing all the mainly stuff such as cutting the grass, taking out the garbage, doing house repairs etc... But cases where the guy stays home and take care of the kids and the lady goes out and work and maintain the house, which is nothing wrong with it, is just not…

and yet their jewelry is rarely examined in depth, if at all. Adornment often signifies symbolic qualities which act as parallels of other symbols in a work, and, in some cases, reveal meanings not delineated elsewhere. This is most apparent in portraits, where jewelry is highly visible and detailed in its depiction, especially in the extreme precision of the Netherlandish tradition. It is most fruitful to focus on those works, though exceptions are readily apparent and, as such, a variety of…

paintings that is still surviving is his portrait Mona Lisa. She was known as La Gioconda, the wife of a merchant, Francesco del Giocondo; the painting is in three-quarter view and she is seated on a stone balcony (Fiero 198). Mona Lisa is not abstract but is lifelike and realistic. The viewer can see the whole upper torso of her body placed. She is in an elegant green mossy flow fit dress. The painting is a lady who appears to be mid-late 20s. Mona Lisa’s portrait appears to be a genre scene of…

That has been a dangerous incline, barring ladies from standard society to the point that it has appeared to be normal for quite a while. Being that as it may, the tide is at long last turning, with expanding quantities of individuals understanding this is a hostile approach to live, as well as one…

They were called Emperor Justinian and His Attendants and Empress Theodora and Her Attendants. They show Justinian and his empress Theodora, accompanied by some of the officials, some local clergy, and the ladies in waiting. Both mosaics were made ca. 547 CE. These mosaics show a new ideal for beauty. In the fourth and fifth centuries, people were shown as short in height, bulkier in weight, and have large heads. By this point in art, people appeared as tall…