[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P80. The painting "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, USA.
25-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." It depicts a farmer standing beside a woman who has been interpreted to be his sister.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P78. "Judith Slaying Holofernes" by Italian early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
23-02-2019
(Worldkings.org - kyluc.vn) - Judith Slaying Holofernes is a painting by the Italian early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi completed between 1614 and 1620. The work shows the scene of Judith beheading Holofernes, common in art since the early Renaissance, as part of the group of subjects art critics have called the "Power of Women", which show women triumphing over powerful men. The subject takes an episode from the apocryphal Book of Judith in the Old Testament, which recounts the assassination of the Assyrian general Holofernes by the Israelite heroine Judith. The painting shows the moment when Judith, helped by her maidservant, beheads the general after he has fallen asleep drunk.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P77. The sculpture "The Moses" by artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italy.
22-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Moses is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in chapter 34 of Exodus in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P76. "The Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni" - a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio.
21-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, executed in 1488 and located in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P75. A Carolingian-era equestrian statue in bronze, France.
20-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - A Carolingian-era equestrian statuette in bronze depicting either Charlemagne or his grandson Charles the Bald, a rare example of surviving Carolingian sculpture in metal, is exhibited in the Louvre Museum. In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries it was kept in Metz Cathedral.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P73. The Sutton Hoo purse-lid - one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England
18-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P72. The painting "Three Musicians" by artist Pablo Picasso, Spain.
17-02-2019
(Worldkings.org - Aseanrecords.world) - Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P71. The book of hours by The Limbourg Brothers, Netherland.
16-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Limbourg Brothers, Book of Hours belonging to the Duke of Berry (c. 1405) was a book of hours that was commissioned by John, the Duke of Berry. A book of hours is a bound book that contains the times and themes of prayer that a person should undertake on each given day.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P70. An oil canvas portrait painting "Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan" by artist Thomas Gainsborough.
15-02-2019
(Worldkings.org - Aseanrecords.world) - Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Thomas Gainsborough between 1785 and 1787. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1937. Mrs. Sheridan (Elizabeth Ann Linley) was a talented musician who enjoyed professional success in Bath and London before marrying Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1773 and abandoning her career. She was 31 when she sat for Gainsborough, dying from tuberculosis seven years later at the age of thirty-eight. The portrait was painted between 1785 and 1787, and, was exhibited at Gainsborough's studio at Schomberg House, Pall Mall in 1786.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P69. the sculpture "Augustus of Prima Porta", Italy.
14-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a 2.03 m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar, the first and one of the most significant emperors of Ancient Rome, which was discovered on April 20, 1863 in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome.
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