Baroque
epub |eng | | Author:Bridget Quinn

There had, of course, been plenty of self-promoting self-portraits by artists in the past. Albrecht Dürer’s Christlike visage springs immediately to mind. Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting ...
( Category: Baroque April 23,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew M. Reeve

Fig. 99 Thomas Holloway, “Contrasted attitudes of a man and a fribble.” From Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy (1789), 3:213. In Delany’s 1768 commentary on the Priory, “fribble” has a different ...
( Category: Baroque September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-19 | Author:Iris Moon;

Errant Subjects Rome and antiquity beckoned to all of the young artists toiling in ancien régime Paris, and Parent heeded the call, going straight to Italy without telling the comte ...
( Category: Baroque May 24,2022 )