Brand New!! Who Painted This? #48

Who painted this? #48

Back to the whole moving-picture present thus calendar week equally you lot struggled amongst end week's challenge.

You require to tell me - equally a comment on this weblog - who painted this PLUS all the other things I desire to know (see link to rules below).

ALSO Tell me likewise what you lot tin strength out expose out virtually this creative someone and/or artwork.

The winner volition last the someone amongst the BEST respond rather than the starting fourth dimension to respond - then you lot don't receive got to rush in addition to receive got got fourth dimension to arrive at to a greater extent than or less research.

For those who've non risen to the challenge earlier delight accept a infinitesimal to read the rules - click the link/see below.  The questions which require answering don't destination at "Who painted this?"

How to participate inwards "Who painted this? #47"

PLEASE construct certain you lot read the rules earlier posting a comment - in addition to ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what you lot intend is the answer.
READ THE RULES for participating inwards this challenge (this saves having to re-create them out for each post!).

In short:

• use your brains non software to expose the answer
• search using words exclusively on a database of images
• leave your respond equally a comment on this blog
• if right it volition non last published until the side past times side postal service - which provides the answer
• if incorrect it volition last published
• do non acquire out the respond on Facebook!

the winner - who gets a squall in addition to a link on/from this weblog - is NOT THIS WEEK the starting fourth dimension someone to scope me a completely right respond for ALL the things I desire to know. 

It's the someone who provides the BEST answer (see above)

Who Painted This #47 - The Answer

Lucia, Minerva in addition to Europa Anguissola Playing Chess by Sofonisba Anguissola

Last week's challenge

• Title of the artwork:  Lucia, Minerva in addition to Europa Anguissola Playing Chess aka The Chess Game aka Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess
• Name of the creative someone who created this artwork: Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 - 1625)
• Date it was created: 1555 (Late Renaissance)
• Media used: crude on canvas, 72 × 97 cm (28.3 × 38.2 in)
• Where it lives now: Gallery of European Art, The National Museum, Poznań

“But Sofonisba of Cremona, the missy of Amilcare Anguissola, has worked amongst deeper report in addition to greater grace than whatever adult woman of our times at problems of design, for non exclusively has she learned to draw, paint, in addition to re-create from nature, in addition to reproduce most skillfully plant past times other artists, but she has on her ain painted to a greater extent than or less most rare in addition to beautiful paintings.”
(Vasari 343)

What's interesting virtually this paradigm is:

• it's virtually 4 sisters - no men inwards sight!  
• The 4th sis is the artist!  Sofonisba Anguissola was 1 of the really starting fourth dimension woman someone artists nosotros know virtually in addition to 1 of the starting fourth dimension to constitute an international reputation.  She was considered the best woman someone painter of her fourth dimension past times Vasari.
• The sisters inwards the paradigm are non doing activities unremarkably associated amongst girls in addition to women - instead they're playing chess!
• It has a really relaxed experience to it - peradventure because the subjects were then good known to the artist?
• You don't simply acquire really fine portraiture in addition to superb paradigm of clothing, there's likewise a fully worked upwardly landscape inwards miniature inwards the background!

This is what the Web Gallery of Art has to tell virtually it

That women could last intellectually accomplished in addition to highly rational, fifty-fifty strategic, are the complementary themes of a household unit of measurement portrait showing Anguissola's 3 sisters playing chess. In this painting, which Vasari saw hanging inwards the artist's household unit of measurement domicile inwards Cremona inwards 1566, the chivalric game of chess takes house inwards an idealized landscape familiar inwards belatedly medieval courtly images of the game in addition to non inwards a tavern or other questionable locale seen inwards other contemporary representations of gaming. On the far left Lucia looks out at the viewer, dominating our gaze equally her arm in addition to obvious expertise dominate the chess board. She has removed 2 of Minerva's pieces from the game in addition to the younger sis opens her rima oris in addition to raises her mitt equally if to speak. Their youngest companion, Europa, smiles gleefully at the match, carefully observed past times an erstwhile maid retainer at the far right.

The 3 Anguissola women are members of a natural nobility capable of entertaining themselves, their condition emphasized past times the rich surface especial on their brocaded clothe in addition to the fine Turkish carpet laid upwardly over their table.Web Gallery of Art - Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess 

Here are to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than links to information virtually her

• Wikipedia - Sofonisba Anguissola
• Mansfield University of Pennsylvania - Sofonisba Anguissola the "Miracolo di Natura"
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sofonisba Anguissola 
• New World Encyclopaedia - Sofonisba Anguissola 
• Web Gallery of Art - paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola 
• Wikimedia - 
• paintings by SofonisbaAnguissola 
• self portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola In her lifetime, she painted to a greater extent than self-portraits than whatever other creative someone betwixt Durer in addition to Rembrandt.
• artcyclopedia.com - Museums in addition to Galleries amongst artwork by Sofonisba Anguissola

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #47? - Last calendar week I changed the rules to position the emphasis on the best answer.

Hence although John O'Grady got the starting fourth dimension consummate answer, he's non the winner this week.

This calendar week the winner is yet 1 time to a greater extent than Bernadette O'Madden since my challenge end calendar week was likewise to supply the best respond inwards price of telling me to a greater extent than virtually the artist.

However I likewise really much liked Ashley's respond equally she likewise told us to a greater extent than virtually the paradigm - so the alter of rules 1 time to a greater extent than this week.  In time to come the best respond volition last the 1 which provides the most informative respond virtually the creative someone and/or artwork.

It does nevertheless seem equally if this end challenge has most of you lot stumped!  I receive got a feeling a issue volition become "I knew that!" 1 time they come across the paradigm above!

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