Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi

Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi 

(Latin for “Savior of the World”)

The incredible story of how the last known work

of Leonardo da Vinci was almost lost forever

When Dianne Dwyer Modestini began chipping away at a painted-over

and murkily varnished image of Jesus Christ more than a decade ago, little did she know

she was restoring the last Leonardo da Vinci work known to the world.

This New York auction house Christie’s, announced that Salvator Mundi (Latin for “Savior of the World”) will be offered for an estimated $100 million next month. The painting is owned by Russian  investor Dmitry Rybolovlev, whose estimated net worth is $7.4 billion and has been mired in many controversies—in the art world and beyond.

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Raoul Dufy - Interior with Open Windows
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Young Girl Defending Herself from Cupid

William - Adolphe Bouguereau - Young Girl Defending Herself from Cupid

William-Adolphe Bouguereau November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work. Throughout the course of his life, Bouguereau executed 822 known finished paintings, the whereabouts of many are still unknown.

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Simon Vouet's allegory La Richesse was painted about 1640, possibly for one of the royal chateaux of France

Simon Vouet's allegory La Richesse

was painted about 1640,

possibly for one of the royal chateaux of France (Louvre)

Simon Vouet French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best

remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France

Despite his success in Rome, Vouet suddenly returned to France in 1627, following pressing recommendations from the Duc de Béthunes and a summons from the King. A French contemporary, lacking the term "Baroque", said, "In his time the art of painting began to be practiced here in a nobler and more beautiful way than ever before," and the allegory of "Riches" demonstrates a new heroic sense of volumes, a breadth and confidence without decorative mannerisms.

Vouet's new style was distinctly Italian, importing the Italian Baroque style into France. He adapted this style to the grand decorative scheme of the era of Louis XIII and Richelieu and was made premier peintre du Roi. Louis XIII commissioned portraits, tapestry cartoons and paintings from him for the Palais du Louvre, the Palais du Luxembourg and the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1632, he worked for Cardinal Richelieu at the Palais-Royal and the Château de Malmaison. In 1631 he also decorated the château of the président de Fourcy, at Chessy, the hôtel Bullion, the château of Marshal d'Effiat at Chilly, the hôtel of the Duc d’Aumont, the Séguier chapel, and the gallery of the Château de Wideville.

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Luca Giordano Baroque Painter - The Annunciation

The Annunciation - Artist Luca Giordano

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 Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.  Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.

Born in Naples, Giordano was the son of the painter Antonio Giordano. In around 1650 he was apprenticed to Ribera, on the recommendation of the viceroy of Naples^, and his early work was heavily influenced by his teacher. Like Ribera, he painted many half-length figures of philosophers, either imaginary portraits of specific figures, or generic types. He acquired the nickname Luca fa presto, which translates into "Luca paints quickly." His speed, in design as well as handiwork, and his versatility, which enabled him to imitate other painters deceptively, earned for him two other epithets, "The Thunderbolt" (Fulmine) and "The Proteus" of painting.

Following a period studying in Rome, Parma and Venice, Giordano developed an elaborate Baroque style fusing Venetian and Roman Influences. His mature work combines the ornamental pomp of Paul Veronese with the lively complex schemes, the "grand manner", of Pietro da Cortona.  He is also noted for his lively and showy use of color.

John William Goddard - "Where The Heart Is Young." and "Dolce far Niente"

John William Goddard - "Where the Heart Is Young."

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John William Goddard - "Dolce far Niente" 

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John William Godward was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist and therefore, a follower in theory of Frederic Leighton. He is more closely allied stylistically, however, to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, with whom he shared a penchant for the rendering of Classical architecture, in particular, static landscape features constructed from marble.

The vast majority of Godward's extant images feature women in Classical dress, posed against these landscape features, although there are some semi-nude and fully nude figures included in his oeuvre (a notable example being In The Tepidarium (1913), a title shared with a controversial Alma-Tadema painting of the same subject that resides in the Lady Lever Art Gallery). The titles reflect Godward's source of inspiration: Classical civilisation, most notably that of Ancient Rome (again a subject binding Godward closely to Alma-Tadema artistically), although Ancient Greece sometimes features, thus providing artistic ties, albeit of a more limited extent, with Leighton.

The Birth Of Venus Is Probably Botticelli's Most Famous Painting

The Birth of Venus - Artist Sandro Botticelli

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Primavera - Artist Sandro Botticelli

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Sandro Botticelli (1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.   

The Birth of Venus is probably Botticelli's most famous painting. The picture hung in the country villa of the Medici along with "Primavera", indicating that the work was commissioned by the Medici family. Venus rises from the sea, looking like a classical statue and floating on a seashell, in what is surely one of the most recognisable images in art history.

 On Venus' right is Zephyrus, God of Winds, he carries with him the gentle breeze Aura and together they blow the Goddess of Love ashore. The Horae, Goddess of the Seasons, waits to receive Venus and spreads out a flower covered robe in readiness for the Love Goddess' arrival.

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Anthony van Dyck - Oil Painting

Charles 1 (1600 -49) with M de St Antonia

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The Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family and the largest private art collection in the world.Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by Queen Elizabeth II and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust a branch of the Royal Household. The Queen owns some objects in the collection in right of the Crown and some as a private individual. It is made up of over one million objects, including 7,000 paintings, 30,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 500,000 prints, as well as photographs, tapestries, furniture, ceramics, cars, textiles, lace, carriages, jewelry, clocks, instruments, plants, manuscripts, books, sculptures, and the Crown Jewels.

The Hudson River School - Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868,

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868,

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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Frederic Edwin Church - El Rio De Luz
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The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America.

PaintingsToGo®, Kozy Shack Founder Vincent Gruppuso Portrait

Kozy Shack Founder Vincent Gruppuso

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Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott - Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott

Thomas Gainsborough

(British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)
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In 1774 Gainsborough moved from Bath to London, and by 1777 he was well established, exhibiting portraits of members of the royal family at the Royal Academy. This full-length of the statuesque Mrs. Elliott—a Scottish lady of great beauty but easy virtue—was apparently commissioned by her lover, the first marquis of Cholmondeley, and was exhibited at the R.A. in 1778. Its elegance, delicate coloring, and fluid handling reflect the influence of Van Dyck.

Joan of Arc - Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, Damvillers 1848–1884 Paris)

Jules Bastien-Lepage

(French, Damvillers 1848–1884 Paris)

Joan of Arc, the medieval teenaged martyr from the province of Lorraine, gained new status as a patriotic symbol after France ceded the territory to Germany following the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, depicts the moment when Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear to Joan in her parents’ garden, rousing her to fight against the English invaders in the Hundred Years War. When the painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1880, critics praised the expressiveness of the principal figure, but found the saints’ presence at odds with Bastien-Lepage’s naturalistic style.

Sandro Botticelli - Madonna and Child with Eight Angels - 1478 (detail)

Sandro Botticelli - Madonna and Child with Eight Angels - 1478 (detail)

Sandro Botticelli - Madonna and Child with Eight Angels - 1478

Sandro Botticelli

Madonna and Child with Eight Angels - 1478

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi,

known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Portrait of Artist's Mother, October 1888, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California

Portrait of Artist's Mother, October 1888,

Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California

Portrait of the Artist's Mother is a painting Vincent van Gogh made in 1888 of his mother, Anna Carbentus van Gogh from a black-and-white photograph. In September 1888 Van Gogh - answering to a letter of his sister Wil who had told him of a recent photograph of their mother - asked for a print. About a week later he received it, but - "troubled by the black" - sat down to paint a copy based on this likeness: Van Gogh's initial introduction to art was through his mother, an amateur artist. After years of strained relationship with family members, Van Gogh excitedly shared some of his works his mother would cherish most, those of flowers and natural settings. In this painting of his mother, Van Gogh captures her dignified, proud nature

Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888. Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Vincent van Gogh -

Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888. Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Starry Night Over the Rhône (September 1888) is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at nighttime. It was painted at a spot on the bank of the Rhône River that was only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine which Van Gogh was renting at the time. The night sky and the effects of light at night provided the subject for some of his more famous paintings, including Cafe Terrace at Night (painted earlier the same month)

and the later canvas from Saint-Rémy, The Starry Night.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Italian Rococo was mainly inspired by French Rococo, since France was

the founding nation of that particular style. The styles of the Italian Rococo were very similar

to those of France. The style in Italy was usually lighter and more feminine than

Italian Baroque art, and became the more popular art form of the settecento.

The leading artistic centers during the Rococo in Italy were Venice, Genoa and Rome, Most Italian Rococo artists came from Venice, such as Canaletto, Tiepolo, Guardi, Piazzetta, and Bellotto, but also from Rome, and Genoa, such as Piranesi, and Pannini. Artists such as Castiglione and Alessandro Magnasco brought the vogue of Rococo art to Genoa, and Neapolitan Rococo was mainly based on landscapes and naturalistic themes. Canaletto and Tiepolo were among the most prominent painters of the age, and they painted many frescos and cityscapes (particularly Canaletto).

One of Canaletto's views of Venice

Joan of Arc Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage. Commission PaintingsToGo® Made-To-Order hand painted canvas oil reproduction.

Joan of Arc

Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 100 x 110 in. (254 x 279.4 cm)

Joan of Arc, the medieval teenaged martyr from the province of Lorraine,

gained new status as a patriotic symbol after France ceded the territory to Germany

following the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). Bastien-Lepage, a native of

Lorraine, depicts the moment when Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear

to Joan in her parents’ garden, rousing her to fight against the English

invaders in the Hundred Years War. When the painting was exhibited in the Salon

of 1880, critics praised the expressiveness of the principal figure, but found the

saints’ presence at odds with Bastien-Lepage’s naturalistic style.

Mezzetin - Antoine Watteau. Commission PaintingsToGo® Made-To-Order hand painted canvas oil reproduction.

Mezzetin

Artist: Antoine Watteau 1684–1721

Date: ca. 1718–20

Medium: Oil on canvas

Mezzetin, a stock comic character of the Italian commedia dell'arte,
became an established performer on the Paris stage. Various players were engraved
in his costume, which by about 1680 comprised a jacket and knee-britches,
a floppy hat, a ruff, and a short cape. Mezzetin was by turns interfering,
devious, and lovelorn, but not languorous. His head and his large,
angular hands are extraordinarily expressive.

Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France.

Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and

design that first appeared in France.

Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture jewellery, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. It took its name, short for Arts Décoratifs. Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. It combined modernist styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.