Portrait of a Lady

talents that strongly revolutionized the world of art, notably in conceptual art, painting and sculpture. Da Vinci was known for many things especially his paintings. The paintings that will be discussed are “Lady with the Ermine”, “The Last Supper” and “The Mona Lisa.” The painting “The Lady and the Ermine” is believed to created from 1482-1483 in Milan. There are multiple theories about who the woman is. The first being Ludovico Sforca’s (duke of Milan) mistress Cecilia Gallerani, second…

Isabella D’Este: The Lady of the Italian Renaissance The regional courts in Italy during the Renaissance period of the mid-fourteenth to sixteenth centuries played a significant role in the nurturing, spreading and development of Renaissance ideas. “[T]he court [is] defined [as] the space inhabited by the prince, his consort, household, courtiers and officials;” The complex of court buildings usually encompassed a palace or castle where the ruler resided, surrounded by chapels,…

Dejima yujo de-Kawari no zu (Deshima Prostitute with Fan) is a woodblock print by an anonymous artist in Nagasaki, Japan c. 1800. The print was purchased from C.R. Boxer in 1951, collected by J.C. Pabst and is currently held in the British Museum collection in London. Deshima Prostitute with Fan is a good example of Nagasaki-e prints, which are recognizable through their depictions of Dutch people, ships and exotic animals. A derivative of the popular Ukiyo-e print genre, Nagasaki-e prints were…

cubism. This painting is also very abstract and the shapes are dispersed just as cubism paintings should be. Cubist portraits typically presented the sitter in half length, with few identifying attributes; however faceted or fragmented the forms, the likeness was preserved through replication of the sitter's distinctive features (“Search”). The painting that I selected was also a portrait with a sitter at half length. The geometric angles, lines, and shapes were also reasons why this…

illness increased in their analytic methods, though it certainly took centuries to overcome the stigma surrounding it. Albrecht Dürer’s Melancholia I (Figure 1), William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress: The Madhouse (Figure 2), and Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe (Figure 3) reflect their period’s treatment…

President that died just three days prior, in Dallas, TX, as a result of an assassination. Of the hundreds of photos taken on that dreadful day, Stan Stearns, from United Press International, captured the most acclaimed photos in Kennedy history. The portrait depicts a young John F. Kennedy, Jr., who was celebrating his third birthday, saluting his father’s casket for the last time, but it also portrays a child with hopefulness, that honors and admires his father. In the photo, the photographer…

Green Chapel, but he does not know how to get there. The journey provides great opportunity for his thoughts to fester. He has a red shield that has a yellow pentangle that represents the five principles of knighthood, on the back of the shield is a portrait of Mother Mary. Gawain has promised his loyalty to Mother Mary, a value very dear to him. The beginning of Bob Dylan’s song “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” says “Mama, take this badge off of me / I can’t use it anymore” (1-2), these lines could…

resembles between the behavior of the characters in the books is what inspired me to create a visual art piece. I believe that visual pieces provoke an in-depth meaning of the arguments discussed because, they allows the audience to connect with the portrait , hence, gaining a deeper understanding and a personal connection. I presented the themes in my visual piece through symbolic objects that tell a different story when they are viewed from different perspectives. In the visual art piece the…

figure subject is half concealing her beer jug with her apron, out of respect to the Mrs Grundy’s of the neighbourhood. Moreover, this portrait of a woman possibly known personally to Vyse, which he recorded with pathos and sensitivity. However, it is debatable if Vyse knew his A Bit of Old Chelsea, had a marked similarity to an etching by George Belcher, titled A Lady of Battersea (Fig 131). The similarity between the two is possibly coincidental, for both Vyse and Belcher were keen to observe…

Bassanio then reveals his love for the beautiful and virtuous Portia, an extremely wealthy young lady who lives in Belmont. He says that her beauty and her fortune are so well known, in fact, that she is being courted by "renowned suitors" from all parts of the world. Bassanio, however, is confident that if he could spend as much money as is necessary…