I came across this painting while searching for reference material. I thought she was beautiful and I love the art. The source for this painting is from this website- Web Gallery of Art
This wonderful Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database which I sometimes spend hours at.
The artists info:
NEROCCIO DE’ LANDI
Italian painter/sculptor, Sienese school (b. 1445, Siena, d. 1500, Siena)
Painting Title-Portrait of a Lady
Tempera on Panel
1480’s
Hi, been away for a few days. I thought I would display the painting I finished from Liliedahl’s School of oil painting
(Old Master Methods Part 1: The Flemish/Bistre Method). This is one of two paintings required for this course. This painting is done with oils and measures 20″x30″. The painting is after “The Snack” by William Bouguereau.
He is one of my favorite painters. I will include a link to some of his work in my next post. He was a very prolific painter for his time and all his pieces are beautiful, at least I think so. This course was not to paint an exact copy but to learn from the old masters and their techniques and to give a better understanding to that process. My copy is in no way comparable to his beautiful piece, but I did learn a lot from the course!
The stages are as follows:
1) drawing stage
2)color glazes
3) final opaque stages-finished painting
I thought I would highlight on paintings of the past. Its great to view art from these wonderful artists of the past and to learn from them. I found this painting from the site Web Gallery of Art. Below is the bio on this artist.
I found this painting to be very unusual. The artist is ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe
(b. ca. 1530, Milano, d. 1593, Milano)
Painting
Spring
1573
Oil on canvas,
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Artist’s Bio
Italian painter. In the middle of the sixteenth century Arcimboldo made a normal debut with youthful works including designs for window s and tapestries respectively in Milan and Monza cathedrals and frescos for the cathedral of Como. None of these gave any inkling of the bizarre originality he would soon develop. In 1562 he was summoned to the Imperial court in Prague and almost immediately his original and grotesque fantasy was unleashed. He invented a portrait type consisting of painted animals, flowers, fruit, and objects composed to form a human likeness. Some are satiric portraits of court personages, and others are allegorical personifications.
Arcimboldo’s style has been so often imitated over the centuries that it is sometimes difficult to make exact attributions. He has been seen by some as the forerunner of Surrealism in the 20th century, but, more to the point, he should be seen in his own context at the end of the Renaissance. This was a time when people (collectors and scientists alike) were beginning to pay more attention to nature. Arcimboldo really created the fantastic image of the court in Prague, creating costumes, set designs, and decorations. Emperor Rudolf II set him the task of researching and buying works of art and natural curiosities, as well as giving him countless commissions for paintings. In 1587 Arcimboldo went back to Milan but stayed in contact with the Emperor. Towards the end of his life, he sent the Emperor the idiosyncratic portrait of him in the guise of the Greek god Vertemnus.
