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Agnolo Bronzino, Costanza da Sommaia
Agnolo Bronzino, Costanza da Sommaia
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Il rimorso di Oreste
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Albrecht Dürer
German Renaissance painter, printmaker and theorist Albrecht Dürer was born on this day in 1471.
Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe very early on in his life due to his high-quality woodcut prints, and is credited with bringing the Renaissance to Northern Europe. He travelled to Italy a number of times, and was well-acquainted with many of the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. In 1512, he was appointed court painter to Roman Emperor Maximilian I.
This work, called Melencolia I, is one of the most well-known ‘master engravings’. Despite being rife with symbolism, it has more or less eluded interpretation. The winged figure is thought to be an embodiment of melancholy, and around her we can see an hourglass, weighing scales, and other tools, as well as a magic square and astrological features. Competing theories suggest it alludes to alchemy, astrology, theology or even philosophy.
We’d love to know: what do you see when you look at it? What do you think it could be about?
Engraving on laid paper, 1514.
There was something about the person in the last painting that I liked so I wanted to paint a full portrait of him. When I put the mustache on him it kind of looked like Prince to me. Then I remembered the phrase “prince of painters” and I googled it. There are several old masters referred to as the prince of painters so I went with it. This is my thought process when I paint sometimes.——-
The Prince of Painters 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm.——
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For me a painting is a portal into myself, a way to see and feel something in myself I haven’t experienced before. I remember the first time I saw a work by Dali in an encyclopedia when I was 14 or 15 years old. Incredible strangeness and familiarity. I never saw anything like it. It hit me in the gut somewhere. —– Temporary Triptych-The Encounter 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm each. —– #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #modernart #arte #artecontemporaneo #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #artcontemporain #kunst #hamont #canadianart #torontoart #instaart #triptych #arthistory #landscapepainting #mothernature #oldmasters #mythology #forest #nature #goddess
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Our Old Masters sale features this beautiful drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, Dancers in a Wood ✏️ #ChristiesOldMasters
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During the final decade of his life, Gainsborough began to develop a small group of subjects where figures played a key role in the composition. The present drawing dates from the early 1780s and like so many of Gainsborough’s landscapes, it was intended as a work of art in its own right and was not preparatory to or related to any painting.
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Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788), Dancers in a wood. Estimate $150,000-200,000.
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Old Master Drawings, 24 January at Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center.
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Our Old Masters Evening Sale, part of Classic Week, features this sketch by Goya titled A Woman and two Boys by a fountain. Intimately associated with the most important Spanish Royal commission of its time, and hung over recent years on the walls of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, this delightful and beautifully-preserved sketch displays many of the qualities that make Goya stand out as one of the very greatest artists his, or indeed any, age.
Estimate GBP 4,000,000 - GBP 6,000,000.
This lot is offered in our Old Masters Evening Sale, part of Classic Week, on 8 December at Christie’s London, King Street.
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