1. Frinda
Created in: 1852 Creator: Frans Xavier Winterhalt British Specification: 179.1cm×244.5cm
Depository: The Elizabeth II Collection
It is a lyrical and beautiful work of romanticism. The painter depicts a dozen beautiful maidens, sitting around the stream, seemingly wanting to go into the water to bathe, some half-naked, some wanting to undress. The painter organizes girls with different personalities and temperaments together, emphasizes individuality, and finds commonalities to reflect the beauty of that life. Achieving order in disorder and unity in complexity is the success of this work.
2. A woman with a musical score and a mirror
Woman with sheet music and mirror 1529 Hans Baldon Glein German painter 82cm×35.9cm (left) 82.5cm×35.5cm (right) Plate oil paintings Depository: Old Munich Painting Collection
The work clearly exhibits a character of anti-religious asceticism. The combination of the two is a full affirmation of the beauty of human beings' own beauty by a woman holding a musical score and a woman holding a mirror to symbolize the beauty of nature. The two are depicted as slender, slender, and flairing maidens, with beautiful faces and subtle looks, embodying the heights reached by civilization. The deep shadows in the background and the participation of animals such as deer, cats and snakes undoubtedly add to the strangeness and mystery of the work.
3. The windy woman who blows the hookah
"The Windy Woman Blowing a Hookah" or "Hookah Ignition"
Creator: Jean-León Gérôme France
Created in: 1898
Specifications: 54.6cm×66cm
Depository: Collection of the Kops Gallery, Geneva
In this painting, Jérôme depicts an oriental woman in a bath, in a posture and blowing a hookah, which is the custom of the Oriental Arabs, and the surrounding buildings reflect the Arabic style. Columns, fine patterns, fountains, etc., together with bathing women and Carpets with Persian patterns, together constitute the Arabian mood and express the romantic poetry of "Orientalism".
4. The Goddess of Truth
Jules Lefebvre, goddess of truth, 265cm×112cm cloth Oil Paint Deposit: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France, 1870
This is a symbolic idea. The truth is held aloft by a beautiful and innocent **** girl, holding aloft the "light" in one hand and holding a rope in the other, which vividly illustrates that the truth is both complex and simple. In the style of Romantic painting, the painter depicts a slender young girl with pure eyes staring ahead, a well-proportioned posture, smooth curves, and youthful vitality. Undoubtedly, the beautiful **** girl is a symbol of truth and a symbol of artistic ideals.
5. For the first time, Psyche accepts the kiss of Eros
"Psyche's First Acceptance of Eros' Kiss" is also translated as "Pussik's First Kiss of Accepting Eros"
Creator: François Gérard (France)
Created in: 1798
Size: 186cm×132cm
Depository: Paris Collection of the Louvre
The theme of "Pussuka Accepts the First Kiss of the God of Love" is derived from ancient Greek mythology.
Pushika was the daughter of a king, and she was so beautiful that she aroused the jealousy of Aphrod, or Venus, so she sent her son Eros (also known as Amor, Cupid) to punish this beautiful woman, so that he could have a strange love in Pussie's heart, focusing on lowly men. When Eros saw Pussuk, he was also captivated by her beauty, and he took her into his palace, where he met him every night, but did not show her his face. Pusch's sister was jealous, saying that she was meeting a youkai and asked her to go and see what Eros looked like anyway. One night, when Eros was asleep, He peeked at it with a candle, and accidentally a drop of wax oil fell on Eros's face, and Eros was awakened and fled immediately. Pushkill missed her lover so much that she went through a lot of hard work to find Eros, and even willingly performed heavy and dangerous labor for the female slaves under Venus. Finally, they met Eros, and the couple was never separated again.
The painting depicts the moment when Prossue was first loved by Eros. This romantic lyrical subject was used by neoclassical painters and sculptors in the 18th century. The statue of Canova emphasizes the unrestrained side of the theme, while Gérard here focuses on the smooth and delicate nude beauty of two pure teenage men and women. Why did critics at the time devalue Gérard's classicist painting to the last? Because the court salons often exhibited classical nude paintings, and the authoritative position at that time was occupied by Davit and his eldest disciple Groh and others, monopoly was often the main reason for the exclusion of dissimilarity. Classical oil painting has several major characteristics: extremely rigorous sketching, full and decorative colors, smooth symmetrical composition. In this painting, all three of these points are already present. Nevertheless, because it is full of romanticism, measured by the aesthetic mentality of France at the end of the 18th century, it will be opposed by some conservative forces. This painting was made in 1798.
6. Diana's rest
Diana's Rest, 1707, 105x163cm Creator: Louis de Brunnebe Jr. Oil on canvas museedesbeaux-arts, Tours de Boullongne, the younger
Louis de Brunne Jr. 1654 - 1733 French Rococo Rococo period painting
7. The birth of Venus
Artist William Adolf Bouguero
The year is 1879
Size 300 cm× 218 cm
It is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
8. Luxury swimming pool in the countryside
Painting title: "Luxury Swimming Pool in the Countryside"
Period: 1885
Creator: Jean-Leon Gérôme (France)
Created in: 1885
Specifications: 70cm×96.5cm
Depository: Private collection
The Near Eastern countryside is the subject of Jérôme's obsession. The painting depicts women bathing in luxurious swimming pools in the countryside, in order to show the plump posture of Near Eastern women and the Arabian custom of bathing. The work emphasizes chiaroscuro to reveal the exotic and hidden atmosphere. The painter takes advantage of his great attention to detail and emotional expression to depict the various styles in the luxurious swimming pool.
9. Auctioning slaves
Painting title: Auction slaves
Creator: Jean-Leon Gérôme France
Specifications: 92cm×74cm
Depository: St. Petersburg Hermitage Museum Collection
This is an Eastern scene in the eyes of a Western artist. The common auction of slaves in the Near East caught the attention of painters. The stripped slave girls, standing naked on the stage to be auctioned off, and under the stage were merchants who competed for bids, and they held out their fingers - a metaphor for the price of buying slaves, and the slave girls looked at all this in a daze, at the mercy of fate... It can be seen that Jérôme created this work with sympathy and compassion, indicating his conscience and dissatisfaction with slavery.
30. The Goddess of Destiny and the Beggar
The Goddess of Destiny and the Beggar
Creator: A.J. Markov (Russia)
Created in: 1836
Specifications: 215cm×162cm
Depository: St. Petersburg, Collection of the Russian Museum
The Goddess of Destiny was the second triplet goddess born to Zeus and his second wife, Themis, the goddess of justice and law, namely Croto, who weaved the lifeline, Thesis, who distributed the degree of life, and Atlopes, who reclaimed the lifeline. They control the destiny of God and man, and are the agents of Hades, the king of Hades, on earth. The painting depicts the goddess of fate descending and giving the beggar so many gold coins that they leak out of the beggar's bag. This painting has a classical mood and a mysterious meaning.
The picture is full of classicist charm, the naked goddess of fate, grace, is multi-asset, throwing money at the aging beggar, who is following with a bag. In the distance is a Renaissance background, and the strong perspective adds to the sense of space. This work, painted in the first half of the 19th century, reflects the painter's sympathy and concern for the fate of the poor people, and reflects the painter's artistic outlook and life ideals.
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