Images Of Art

While looking at this, I could just weep with her.

 

Between the two, the style and detail are very different. I like her relaxed and confident pose. His pose is stiff, and he's unusually proportioned for a man.

 

They may have been drawn by different artists, but the female figure is a rough sketch and the male is likely from later in the process. It could be that the female figure is more detailed and shaded in other sketches also, but I haven't seen any others. "Unusually proportioned?" The male figure isn't cartoonish. They were probably drawn from live models, and they either reflect the appearance of the models or maybe the hand that drew the male figure wasn't very skilled.

 

I wasn't saying that he was badly done. I like them both. He's got very small male bits for an adult, like a disorder of development. Maybe disharmony was intended, or maybe just sketched as he appeared. Part of the variability of nature.

 

Maybe he's a grower and not a shower

 

Forest Nymph (unspecified, possibly Meliai), Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, c1860.

 

Yes. It is me.

 

Poor ancient greeks and romans... They're portrayed in an unaroused state. It's about the naked body, not sex, lust, sex appeal or the penis.

 

Fantasy Art took some beating at one time as it was pure art work at it's best

 

It's a plaster fig leaf cast in London in 1857. That year, the Grand Duke of Tuscany made a present to Queen Victoria of an exact full-size casting of Michelangelo's David, all 6 meters in height of him, and had it shipped to London. The statue's arrival was something of a surprise gift, and although Victoria and other ladies of the court saw it, it's not clear that she ever knew it was fully nude. She likely only saw it with the fig leaf, and it's exactly the kind of thing that a courtier in London would have ordered added to the statue without mention to her and before she saw it.

Victoria made her first visit to Florence much later, in 1888, so it's possible that she saw the original David, or the copy that was put in its original place in the Piazza della Signoria in 1873, or both. They, of course, have never worn fig leaves.

I'm pleased that the young now-unknown quarryman who posed over 500 years ago for Michelangelo did so without reservation. I'm also pleased that the man who modeled much more recently for the sketch on paper that I posted here probably never concerned himself that having a small penis could be distracting to artist or viewer.

The London copy received in 1857 is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and that David no longer wears the leaf.

 

Detail of Bernini's "Ecstacy of St. Teresa" (of Avila), marble, 1647-1652, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

 

getting that good lingus.

 

this is awesome

 

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Was two pictures, an original dance class by Degas and an art student's impression of the original. No matter what I did with the images before posting, at least one of them always posted here upside down.

 

Some of my pieces I design

 

Bump for Giovanni Boldini

 

I looked up the picture of the young lady sitting in the chair, at the top - Portrait of Irene Catlin by
GIOVANNI BOLDINI
Italian, 1842 - 1931.

She's sitting in a dark, mostly red room, in what appears to be a slip, or night gown, maybe? Or is it a summer dress? At first I was thinking she was a lady of the night, in the dark red room, with flowers on the walls.

She doesn't seem open. Her arms cross her body amd one is being held as if she could use it to drag herself from the room, if she felt she needed.

I don't think she's a prostitute. She does some other kind of work. Her shoulders are cream white, turning light shade of peach amd light pink. But her hands are red...having-done-work red. Maybe laundry in hot water. Maybe gardening in the burning sun. I think she's wearing summer dress. Probably not used to sitting to be painted...or maybe too used to it.

All of those are very nice finds !

 

^^^Ugh, that's what happens when you get talked into having a few extra drinks, and it's past your bedtime.

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