Weiblicher Akt mit Tod als Vanitasallegorie (Female Nude with Death as Vanitas Allegory). Hermann BEHRENS s.d.g., (1901) huile sur toile. 180 x 107 cm. Coll. privée.
Makart was an Austrianacademichistory painter, designer, and decorator. He is most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other artists of the Vienna Secession, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation. The appeal of this ‘Makartstil’ is in its aestheticism, a movement that was also experiencing popularity in EnglandandFrance. Nowadays he is widely considered one of Austria’s finest artists, and has historically been compared to Rubens within his home country.
Love between women as allegories in art throughout history
Italia grati alla Francia, ca. 1862. Vincenzo Vela. France receives a kiss from a liberated Italy, whose broken chains lie at her feet.
Italia und Germania, 1828.Johann Friedrich Overbeck. A friendship allegory that symbolizes the artistic ideals of the two, specifically the espousal of early-Renaissance Italian and German art, in the form of a pair of dark- and fair-haired maidens holding hands.
Allegoria della Giustizia e della Pace che si baciano, 1600s. Attributed to Ciro Ferri.
“In our isolated culture, we turned to face paint to express ourselves, eventually developing complex heraldic codes. It became essential to know the difference between cobalt blue, symbolizing a love of cryptozoology, and midnight blue, symbolizing that the wearer wrote poetry.”
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