"Venus effect The Venus effect is a phenomenon in the psychology of perception, named after various paintings of Venus gazing into a mirror, such as Diego Velázquez's ""Rokeby Venus"", Titian's ""Venus with a Mirror"", and Veronese's ""Venus with a Mirror"". Viewers of such paintings assume that Venus is admiring her own reflection in the mirror; however, since the viewer sees her eyes in the mirror, Venus is actually looking at the reflection of the painter. This psychological effect is often used in the cinema, where an actor will be shown apparently looking at himself or herself in the mirror. What"
"mentally ill and restricted to a psychiatric hospital. The painting was restored by two leading Russian experts within a week; the work was greatly assisted by the availability of good-quality photographs of the painting. On 10 March 1914, militant suffragette Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery of London and attacked Diego Velázquez's painting ""Rokeby Venus"" with a meat cleaver. Her action was ostensibly provoked by the arrest of fellow suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst the previous day, although there had been earlier warnings of a planned attack on the collection. Richardson left seven slashes on the painting, all of which have"
"Velázquez married Juana Pacheco (June 1, 1602August 10, 1660), the daughter of his teacher. She bore him two daughters—his only known family. The elder, Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco (1619–1658), married painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo at the Church of Santiago in Madrid on August 21, 1633; the younger, Ignacia de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco, born in 1621, died in infancy. Velázquez produced notable works during this time. Known for his compositions of amusing genre scenes, also called bodegones, such as ""Old Woman Frying Eggs"". ""Christ in the House of Martha"" (1618) combines this bodegón type in a"
"Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus (), is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli of circa 1483-1486. The painting and its companion piece, ""A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts"", originally decorated the walls of Villa Lemmi, a country villa near Florence owned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, uncle of Lorenzo de' Medici and head of the Roman branch of the Medici Bank. They were probably"
"Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus (), is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli of circa 1483-1486. The painting and its companion piece, ""A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts"", originally decorated the walls of Villa Lemmi, a country villa near Florence owned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, uncle of Lorenzo de' Medici and head of the Roman branch of the Medici Bank. They were probably"
"for the National Gallery, London. Although it was attacked and badly damaged in 1914 by the suffragette Mary Richardson, it soon was fully restored and returned to display. The ""Rokeby Venus"" depicts the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility reclining languidly on her bed, her back to the viewer—in Antiquity, portrayal of Venus from a back view was a common visual and literary erotic motif—and her knees tucked. She is shown without the mythological paraphernalia normally included in depictions of the scene; jewellery, roses, and myrtle are all absent. Unlike most earlier portrayals of the goddess, which show her"
"arson, smashed windows at the Home Office and bombed a railway station. She was arrested nine times, receiving prison terms totalling more than three years. She was one of the first two women force-fed under the 1913 Cat and Mouse Act in HM Prison Holloway. Richardson would recover at the cottage of Lillian Dove-Willcox in the Wye valley. She was devoted to Dove-Wilcox and wrote poetry about her love for her. Richardson's most famous act of defiance occurred on 10 March 1914 when she entered the National Gallery in London and slashed Velázquez's famous painting the ""Rokeby Venus"" with a"
"Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons (1775) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Work began on the picture in 1773, and, in Grand Manner fashion, Reynolds exploited two classical paintings: the attitude of the child on the left was modelled on Cupid in Velázquez's ""Toilet of Venus"" whilst the general composition was inspired by Anthony van Dyck's ""Charity"". The painting passed to Mister Cockburn's son George, and then to his daughter, Mister Hamilton, the wife of Sir James Hamilton. It was bequeathed to London's National Gallery in 1906. The"
"just before 1901. The art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel's New York branch exhibited it in June 1906 and - after passing through a number of different hands - Harry Payne Bingham offered it to its present owners in 1940. Young Ladies of the Village Young Ladies of the Village or The Village Maids (French - ""Les Demoiselles de village"") is an 1852 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is signed bottom left ""G. Courbet"". In the centre three young women offer a barefoot peasant girl something to eat. One of the three"
"be on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until January 1, 2018. The piece was filmed at Rokeby Farm, located in upstate New York, near Barrytown. Rokeby is a home and estate that at one point belonged to the Astor family, and later the Livingston family. The property is now inhabited by various descendants of both families, and other tenants. The property was the site of an earlier 2007 piece by Kjartansson, titled ""The Blossoming Trees Performance"", during which he recorded himself as a plein-air painter for two days. The estate has also been used by other"
"Canada as a colony and serving in diplomatic positions in the Bahamas and British Honduras. Lady Cockburn's daughter, Augusta, was wed in 1807. Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons (1775) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Work began on the picture in 1773, and, in Grand Manner fashion, Reynolds exploited two classical paintings: the attitude of the child on the left was modelled on Cupid in Velázquez's ""Toilet of Venus"" whilst the general composition was inspired by Anthony van Dyck's ""Charity"". The painting passed to Mister Cockburn's son George,"
"The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) is a painting by Leonora Carrington. The painting is considered one of her most famous works as it sold for almost $1.5 million in 2009. Carrington created the Giantess circa 1947 in Mexico City after becoming a resident of Mexico in 1942. The tempera on wood panel painting is 117 x 68cm. The Giantess now resides in the private collection of Miguel S. Escobedo in Mexico. Carrington wrote, “... it’s a sort of a giantess with a moonlike face in a field of wheat which is"
"arrows are shown in front of Venus. Venus Frigida Venus Frigida (""Cold Venus"") is a 1611 oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. It is one of the few works which he both signed and dated and derives its title from a quotation from the Roman playwright Terence, ""sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus"" (""without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes"") i.e. love cannot survive without food and wine). He draws Venus' crouched pose from what would later be called the Lely Venus, which he saw in the Gonzaga collection during"
"by Holger Cahill, acting as agent for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. According to Lyles, however, it was painted on a plantation between Charleston and Orangeburg. A watermark on the paper has been identified as that used by the English papermaker James Whatman II (1741–1798) between 1777 and 1794. Rockefeller and Cahill transferred the painting to Williamsburg, Virginia to be part of the Rockefeller collection at the Ludwell-Paradise House. It was later gifted to Colonial Williamsburg. The painting is currently held by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg. The Old Plantation The Old Plantation is an American folk art"
"The Peasant and the Nest Robber The Peasant and the Nest Robber (also The Peasant and the Birdnester) is an oil-on-panel painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1568. It is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. This painting was in the collections of since 1569; passed on to the imperial collection, it became part of those of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at its inauguration. Painted the year before the artist's death, this painting, like other late works such as ""The Land of Cockaigne"", ""The Peasant Dance"", and ""The Peasant Wedding"", is dominated by monumental figures."
"even, by extension, a symbol of the Virgin Mary herself. We see Venus in both these roles in the two famous tempera paintings that Botticelli did in the 1480s for Cosimo's nephew, Pierfrancesco Medici, the ""Primavera"" and the ""Birth of Venus"". Meanwhile, Domenico Ghirlandaio, a meticulous and accurate draughtsman and one of the finest portrait painters of his age, executed two cycles of frescoes for Medici associates in two of Florence's larger churches, the Sassetti Chapel at Santa Trinita and the Tornabuoni Chapel at Santa Maria Novella. In these cycles of the ""Life of St Francis"" and the ""Life of"
"painting the ""Rokeby Venus"" by Diego Velázquez was originally housed at Rokeby Park, near Greta Bridge. It is now in the National Gallery in London. 1 mile north is Mortham Tower, a fortified manor house dating from the 14th century, with a 15th-century tower. Greta Bridge Greta Bridge is a village on the River Greta in County Durham, England. Greta Bridge lies in the Pennine hills near to Barnard Castle. The bridge (now bypassed by the A66 trunk road) is over the River Greta just south of its confluence with the River Tees. Greta Bridge lies within the historic county"
"Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge (1688) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Ruysch has been recorded as making pendant paintings, with one painting of flowers (called a ""bloemstuk"") and another of fruit (""fruitstuk""), often on a forest floor. A pendant to this painting is unknown. Various attempts have been"
"Two Venetian Ladies Two Venetian Ladies is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. The painting, believed to be a quarter of the original work, was executed around 1490 and shows two unknown Venetian ladies. The top portion of the panel, called Hunting on the Lagoon is in the Getty Museum, and another matching panel is missing. The painting was formerly considered to show two courtesans. Modern art historians think them more likely members to be of the patrician Torella family, as suggested by their fine clothes and the pearl necklaces, but academic debate continues, as with other"
"The Birth of Venus (Cabanel) The Birth of Venus (French: ""Naissance de Venus"") is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A second and smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from ca. 1864 is in Dahesh Museum of Art. A third (106 x 182.6 cm) version dates from 1875; it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Shown to great success at the Paris Salon of 1863, ""The Birth of Venus"" was immediately purchased by Napoleon III for his own personal"
"Gardone Riviera, Italy.(Langer 64-65) Brooks painted Rubinstein one last time in ""The Weeping Venus"" (1916–17), a nude based on a photographs that Brooks took during their relationship; she needed them because Rubinstein was such a restless and unreliable model. According to Brooks' unpublished memoir, the painting represents ""the passing away of familiar gods"" as a result of World War I. She said she tried to repaint Venus's features many times, but Rubinstein's face somehow kept returning: ""It fixes itself in the mind."" The longest and most important relationship of Brooks' life was her three-way partnership with Natalie Clifford Barney, an"
"the Virgin which hangs on the tree. The prominence of the tavern makes it clear that they are preoccupied with material rather than spiritual matters. The Peasant Dance The Peasant Dance is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in c. 1569. It was looted by Napoleon Bonaparte and brought to Paris in 1808, being returned in 1815. Today it is held by and exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The panel, neither signed nor dated, was painted ""circa"" 1567, at about the same time as ""The Peasant Wedding"". The paintings are the same"
"now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. The Kneeling Man The Kneeling Man is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his ""The Gates of Hell"" project. The work's arms and torso were reused for ""The Birth of Venus"", a female version - ""Gates"" features both the male and female versions in the tympanum and the upper part of the right-hand panel. The same male figure was also used as part of ""The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost"". It was cast in bronze with a brown and green patina in 1960 by the"
"scenes and the representation of women in the Venus figurines) are the work of adolescent males, who constituted a large part of the human population at the time. However, in analyzing hand prints and stencils in French and Spanish caves, Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University has proposed that a proportion of them, including those around the spotted horses in Pech Merle, were of female hands. Well-known cave paintings include those of: Other sites include Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire, England (~14,500 ys old cave etchings and bas-reliefs discovered in 2003), Peștera Coliboaia in Romania (~29,000 y.o. art?), and Kapova Cave in"
"de San Fernando, it is generally considered highly unlikely. The Milkmaid of Bordeaux The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (Spanish: La lechera de Burdeos) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed between 1825 and 1827, generally attributed to the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although the picture is held in great esteem and widely admired by critics and the public, doubt has been cast by art historians as to whether it is an actual Goya. If authentic then it is likely a portrait of either Rosario Weiss, or more likely, her mother Leocadia Weiss—the artist's nurse during the last years of his life. Leocadia"
"the modern painting is not the look of pain and horror that viewers saw when the painting was first exhibited, and which shocked and repulsed many of the contemporary critics. The painting was commissioned by Thomas Fairbairn, a Manchester industrialist and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites, after Egg discussed Hunt's ideas and possibly showed him some of the initial sketches. Fairbairn paid Hunt 350 guineas. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, along with ""The Light of the World"". Fairbairn found himself unable to bear looking on the woman's expression day-to-day, so persuaded Hunt to soften it. Hunt"
"The Milkmaid (Vermeer) The Milkmaid (Dutch: ""De Melkmeid"" or ""Het Melkmeisje""), sometimes called ""The Kitchen Maid"", is an oil-on-canvas painting of a ""milkmaid"", in fact, a domestic kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as ""unquestionably one of the museum's finest attractions"". The exact year of the painting's completion is unknown, with estimates varying by source. The Rijksmuseum estimates it as circa 1658. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it was painted in about 1657 or 1658. The ""Essential Vermeer"" website"
"The Kneeling Man The Kneeling Man is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his ""The Gates of Hell"" project. The work's arms and torso were reused for ""The Birth of Venus"", a female version - ""Gates"" features both the male and female versions in the tympanum and the upper part of the right-hand panel. The same male figure was also used as part of ""The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost"". It was cast in bronze with a brown and green patina in 1960 by the Rudier Foundry. One of these bronze casts is"
"The Milkmaid of Bordeaux The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (Spanish: La lechera de Burdeos) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed between 1825 and 1827, generally attributed to the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although the picture is held in great esteem and widely admired by critics and the public, doubt has been cast by art historians as to whether it is an actual Goya. If authentic then it is likely a portrait of either Rosario Weiss, or more likely, her mother Leocadia Weiss—the artist's nurse during the last years of his life. Leocadia cared for Goya in exile in Bordeaux, where he"
"The Young Shepherdess The Young Shepherdess is an 1885 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). It is owned by the San Diego Museum of Art. The painting depicts a barefoot young woman in peasant clothing, turned away from but still facing the viewer. She holds a plant in her hands. See also The Shepherdess, a similar painting by the same artist. This and similar images by the artist attracted collectors in Europe and America because of their nostalgic content. In such works the artist depicted a variety of poses and expressions, in this case showing the mild curiosity of the girl."
"of individuals getting sprayed by the fountain. The second fountain also depicts a nude female—this time having the nude Venus sitting on the back of a fish and producing a stream of water from her breasts. This is known as the Nursing Venus and is meant to symbolize child bearing and rearing. This full-figured woman is identified by the peacock to be the goddess Juno, who is the goddess of marriage. Rubens plays on recognizable themes that his contemporary audience would recognize. Rubens uses motifs from Renaissance sculptures, but sets the scene in the mannerist portico of his own house"
"she stands with her hands on her hair, wringing the water from it, with or without a shell. The two-dimensionality of this painting may be a deliberate attempt to evoke the style of ancient Greek vase painting or frescos on the walls of Etruscan tombs, the only types of ancient painting known to Botticelli. Another interpretation of the ""Birth of Venus"" is provided here by its author, Charles R. Mack. This interpretation takes much that is generally agreed, but Mack goes on to explain the painting as an allegory extolling the virtues of Lorenzo de' Medici. This has not been"
"Systems used different versions of the painting in the splash screens and icons of their vector drawing app, Adobe Illustrator. Despite being the app's most cherished icon of the time, while a vector artist named Orlando Arocena tried to submit artwork for the Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 splash screen featuring a woman paying homage to the icon, he was worried that Venus's pose in the artwork would generate controversy. The Birth of Venus 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"