[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P97. The painting "An Old Man and his Grandson" by artist Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italy.
06-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - An Old Man and his Grandson (Italian: Ritratto di vecchio con nipote) is a ca. 1490 tempera painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. One of Ghirlandaio's best-known works, it is considered notable for its emotional poignancy. Its realism has been described as unique among the portraits of the Quattrocento.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P93. The sculpture "The Sarcophagus of the Spouses", Italy.
05-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Italian: Sarcofago degli Sposi) is considered one of the great masterpieces of Etruscan art. It is a late sixth-century BC Etruscananthropoid sarcophagus from Caere, and is in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome. It is 1.14 m high by 1.9 m wide, and is made of terracotta which was once brightly painted. It depicts a married couple reclining at a banquet together in the afterlife, and was found in 19th-century excavations at the necropolis of Cerveteri (ancient Caere). The portrayal of a married couple sharing a banqueting couch is distinctly an Etruscan style; in contrast, Greek vases depicting banquet scenes reflect the custom that only men attended dinner parties.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P.94 - The painting "Liberty Leading the People" by artist Eugène Delacroix, France.
05-04-2019
(Worldkings.org - Kyluc.vn) - Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman of the people with a phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads the people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P89. The sculpture "The Well of Moses" by artist Claus Sluter, Netherlands.
03-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Well of Moses (French: Puits de Moïse) is a monumental sculpture recognised as the masterpiece of the Dutch artist Claus Sluter (1340–1405/06). It was executed by Sluter and his workshop in 1395–1403 for the Carthusian monastery of Chartreuse de Champmol built as a burial site by the Burgundian Duke Philip the Bold just outside the Burgundian capital of Dijon, now in France.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World - P88. The scuplture "The Virgin of Jeanne d' Evreux", France.
02-04-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux, is a Gothic sculpture created sometime between the years 1324 and 1339. This figure stands at 68 cm tall and is made from gilded silver, stones, pearls, and the earliest dated French translucent enamels. The piece itself was donated to the abbey of Saint-Denis by Jeanne d'Evreux in 1339 as inscribed in the pedestal. Currently, this sculpture is on display within the Louvre in France.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P85. The marble statue "Donatello's Saint Mark" by Donatello, France.
02-03-2019
(Worldkings.org - Aseanrecords.world) - Donatello's Saint Mark (1411–1413) is a marble statue that stands approximately seven feet and nine inches high and is displayed in the museum of the Orsanmichelechurch, Florence. It originally was displayed in an exterior niche of the church, where a copy now stands.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P84. The painting "Ophelia" by British artist Sir John Everett Millais.
01-03-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed in 1851 and 1852 and in the collection of Tate Britain in London. It depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P83. the painting "The Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife" by Jan Van Eyck, Netherlands.
28-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is a 1434 oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It forms a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfiniand his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P82. The painting "The birth of Venus" by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli
27-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli probably made in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art). The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P81. The sculpture "Gero Cross", Germany.
26-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Gero Cross or Gero Crucifix, of around 965–970, is the oldest large sculpture of the crucified Christ north of the Alps, and has always been displayed in Cologne Cathedral in Germany. It was commissioned by Gero, Archbishop of Cologne, who died in 976, thus providing a terminus ante quem for the work. It is carved in oak, and painted and partially gilded – both have been renewed. The halo and cross-pieces are original, but the Baroque surround was added in 1683. The figure is 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) high, and the span of its arms is 165 cm (5 ft 5 in).
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