Who Painted This? #47

Who painted this? #47

This calendar week at that topographic point are 2 changes to the normal challenge.

1. This is another crop of a painting. Remember the rules - you lot tin exclusively role WORDS to seat this paradigm via a database of paintings.  
2. You withdraw to tell me - every bit a comment on this weblog - who this is, which paradigm she features inwards too who painted her.  Tell me also what you lot tin discovery out most this artist. 

This calendar week the winner volition hold upward the soul amongst the BEST respond rather than the get-go to respond - too thus you don't conduct keep to rush too conduct keep got fourth dimension to produce some research.

For those who've non risen to the challenge earlier delight conduct keep a infinitesimal to read the rules - encounter below.  The questions which withdraw answering don't terminate at "Who painted this?"

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

PLEASE brand certain you lot read the rules earlier posting a comment - too ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what you lot intend is the answer.
Click this link to 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 discovery the answer
• search using words exclusively on a database of images
• leave your respond every bit a comment on this blog
• if right it volition non hold upward published until the side yesteryear side ship service - which provides the answer
• if incorrect it volition hold upward published
• do non locomote out the respond on Facebook!
• the winner - who gets a advert too a link on/from this weblog - is NOT THIS WEEK the get-go soul to give me a completely right respond for ALL the things I wishing to know. It's the soul who provides the BEST answer (see above)

Who Painted This #46 - The Answer

Self Portrait (1498) yesteryear Albrecht Durer
Museo Nacional del Prado

• Title of the artwork:  Self-Portrait
• Name of the creative soul who created this artwork: Albrecht Dürer
• Date it was created: 1498
• Media used: colour on wood, 104 × 82 cm (40.9 × 32.3 in)
• Where it lives now: Prado Museum, Madrid

This is an In-depth analysis of Dürer's Self-Portrait, 1498 providing discussions about:

• Composition discusses the influences on the composition too his role of miniaturist techniques for the background
• Iconography. The Artist every bit “gentiluomo”  Focuses on the clothing, the eyes too the hands.  Here's what is has to tell most the eyes - which a lot of people commented on inwards their responses to end week's post

The eyes from Durer's 1498 self-portrait

Dürer’s restrained, calmly proud gaze indicates his wishing to bring his social status. He has focused the eyes inwards 2 slightly dissimilar directions inwards gild to enliven the figure’s gaze. His left eye, which is farther away, looks straight out at the viewer piece his nearer, right eye, looks into the distance. This slight disjunction was used yesteryear subsequently portraitists including Hans Holbein the Younger.

• The Self-portrait every bit Genre. Other Self-portraits yesteryear Dürer
• Technical Information - including an X ray view.  It's interesting to encounter that it's a real considered composition too that he changes real petty from start to finish.
• Other technical details What fewer people commented on is the fact that he used a modest apartment mirror to pigment his portrait.  Sometimes nosotros forget at that topographic point was novel applied scientific discipline inwards the yesteryear too!

In gild to pigment his Self-portrait, Dürer used a apartment mirror which he could conduct keep acquired on his get-go trip to Venice (1494-1495), where it is known that they could hold upward establish inwards the belatedly 15th century. As a resultant too for the get-go fourth dimension the creative soul was able to completely invert his trunk too his left arm (which appears to our right) is every bit visible every bit the right.

• Historical too Artistic Context - this gives the backdrop to what Dürer was trying to produce amongst his paintings too portraits.

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #46? - the alter inwards approach threw upward some novel people responding to the challenge.  Hence why we're continuing amongst this approach this week.

Paschalis Dougalis was get-go to yell the creative soul correctly only did non follow through amongst the residual of the information for quite a combat later.

Bernadette Madden nonetheless ane time to a greater extent than was the get-go soul to come upward up amongst the right answer.

Others who got it right were:

• John O'Grady
• Angelique
• Tina Collins
• Alyson Champ  (obviously a fan of noses!)  had an interesting comment

Interestingly, Wiki tells me that this paradigm ane time belonged to Charles I of England, too was acquired yesteryear Felipe of Espana at auction. Poor Charles lost both his caput too his Durer.

• jane gardiner
• Patrick Connors
• Barbara Jackson
• evelynoldroyd
• tessa coleman
• Bairbre Duggan
• Mark
• Pappersdraken

Now don't forget - this calendar week it's non get-go yesteryear the ship service - it's the "best" answer.  See if you lot tin locomote out what I volition discovery interesting.......

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