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In reply to the discussion: Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)44. Ha, I thought that chair the focal point...
all of the brightness and color on it, which is probably what caused the kerfluffle about her underwear, hee hee.
I've not gotten into #2 yet and all I know about Carracci are his little cherubs, the one holding handfuls of flowers and the two peeking thru bushes...gave them to my daughter for her bedroom wall when she was little.
A Cherub Carrying Flowers (2)
Details of Putti from Diana and Endymion
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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
OP
Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#17
HINT: of the five remaining, one is British, one is French, one is Italian and 2 are American
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
I love the fact that critics found this work to be indecent because the nude wasn't
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#43
Rosso da Fiorentino's two angels "discussing" a book is lovely, but take a look at the rest of
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#48
It's a variation (!) of the "sacra conversazione" theme of the Madonna, Child and Saints that
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#46