by Lorraine Stallworth | Jan 5, 2021 | Portrait Painting
Reaching 2.65 meters long, and at 2 meters wide, the Sistine Madonna is considered to be Rapheal’s dramatic masterpiece. There is an interesting history about this painting. It is said that, because of this painting, the rhetoric of the church and the skills of...
by Lorraine Stallworth | Jan 5, 2021 | Paintings
Hotel barge vacations can be enhanced with many themes. If you love art why not consider painting in ‘plein air’ on a barge vacation in Languedoc? The south of France has long attracted artists to paint, sketch and do their best to depict the beauty...
by Lorraine Stallworth | Jan 5, 2021 | Paintings
Boucher is a typical rococo painter. The French writer Goncourt thinks Boucher was a painter who set the model for first century art, remembering characters, drawing and creating them. In his early years, Boucher followed Francois Lemoyne to study painting and had...
by Lorraine Stallworth | Jan 5, 2021 | Paintings
Winslow Homer is one of the greatest American artists of the 19th century. His paintings always show the relationship between man and nature. Homer is the second of three sons in the family. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836, Homer grew up in Cambridge. His mother...
by Lorraine Stallworth | Jan 5, 2021 | Portrait Painting
This painting represents a familiar everyday scene that Vermeer uses to often illustrate in his works. It is reminiscent of ‘Woman with a pearl necklace’ or ‘A young woman holding a waterpitcher’, another by Vermeer. On this canvas we see a...
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