Friday, March 18, 2005
Discovery - Sofonisba Anguissola - updated March 20
Although I had seen some of her paintings or read about her, I had never taken a closer look at several of her works. I really like her paintings, specially the ones like this one. They are somewhat clean, note the little bit of light at the left corner, the touch of red further below, and that's it. If it weren't for the very realistic details of the figure, we'd have a precursor to clean, stylized portraiture of the early 20th century.
Portrait of Philip II
1573
(I can think of prettier names to give to a little girl than Sofonisba :-)
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Portrait of Philip II
1573
(I can think of prettier names to give to a little girl than Sofonisba :-)
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