Who Painted This? #48

Who painted this? #48

Back to the whole moving icon thus calendar week equally yous struggled amongst final week's challenge.

You necessitate 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 yous tin terminate divulge out well-nigh this creative somebody and/or artwork.

The winner volition last the somebody amongst the BEST reply rather than the kickoff to respond - together with so yous don't direct maintain to rush together with direct maintain got fourth dimension to arrive at closed to research.

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

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

PLEASE construct certain yous read the rules earlier posting a comment - together with ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what yous 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 divulge the answer
• search using words solely on a database of images
• leave your reply equally a comment on this blog
• if right it volition non last published until the side yesteryear side postal service - which provides the answer
• if incorrect it volition last published
• do non acquire out the reply on Facebook!

the winner - who gets a hollo together with a link on/from this weblog - is NOT THIS WEEK the kickoff somebody to plow over me a completely right reply for ALL the things I desire to know. 

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

Who Painted This #47 - The Answer

Lucia, Minerva together with Europa Anguissola Playing Chess by Sofonisba Anguissola

Last week's challenge

• Title of the artwork:  Lucia, Minerva together with Europa Anguissola Playing Chess aka The Chess Game aka Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess
• Name of the creative somebody who created this artwork: Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 - 1625)
• Date it was created: 1555 (Late Renaissance)
• Media used: fossil oil 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 written report together with greater grace than whatsoever adult woman of our times at problems of design, for non solely has she learned to draw, paint, together with re-create from nature, together with reproduce most skillfully industrial plant yesteryear other artists, but she has on her ain painted closed to most rare together with beautiful paintings.”
(Vasari 343)

What's interesting well-nigh this icon is:

• it's well-nigh 4 sisters - no men inwards sight!  
• The 4th sis is the artist!  Sofonisba Anguissola was i of the really kickoff woman somebody artists nosotros know well-nigh together with i of the kickoff to constitute an international reputation.  She was considered the best woman somebody painter of her fourth dimension yesteryear Vasari.
• The sisters inwards the icon are non doing activities commonly associated amongst girls together with women - instead they're playing chess!
• It has a really relaxed experience to it - perchance because the subjects were together with so good known to the artist?
• You don't only acquire really fine portraiture together with superb icon of clothing, there's likewise a fully worked upwards landscape inwards miniature inwards the background!

This is what the Web Gallery of Art has to tell well-nigh it

That women could last intellectually accomplished together with highly rational, fifty-fifty strategic, are the complementary themes of a line of piece of job solid unit of measurement portrait showing Anguissola's 3 sisters playing chess. In this painting, which Vasari saw hanging inwards the artist's line of piece of job solid unit of measurement abode inwards Cremona inwards 1566, the chivalric game of chess takes house inwards an idealized landscape familiar inwards belatedly medieval courtly images of the game together with 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 together with obvious expertise dominate the chess board. She has removed 2 of Minerva's pieces from the game together with the younger sis opens her oral cavity together with raises her manus equally if to speak. Their youngest companion, Europa, smiles gleefully at the match, carefully observed yesteryear an one-time maid retainer at the far right.

The 3 Anguissola women are members of a natural nobility capable of entertaining themselves, their condition emphasized yesteryear the rich surface special on their brocaded clothe together with the fine Turkish carpet laid upwards over their table.Web Gallery of Art - Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess 

Here are closed to to a greater extent than links to information well-nigh 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 whatsoever other creative somebody betwixt Durer together with Rembrandt.
• artcyclopedia.com - Museums together with Galleries amongst artwork by Sofonisba Anguissola

Who guessed correct?

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

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

This calendar week the winner is yet over again Bernadette O'Madden since my challenge final calendar week was likewise to render the best reply inwards damage of telling me to a greater extent than well-nigh the artist.

However I likewise really much liked Ashley's reply equally she likewise told us to a greater extent than well-nigh the icon - therefore the modify of rules over again this week.  In hereafter the best reply volition last the i which provides the most informative reply well-nigh the creative somebody and/or artwork.

It does nevertheless seem equally if this final challenge has most of yous stumped!  I direct maintain a feeling a issue volition become "I knew that!" i time they come across the icon above!

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