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Dirck van Baburen

Dirck van Baburen

Title Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan, Year 1623 On the floor in a smithy lies Prometheus. The gods' smith, Vulcan, is fastening handcuffs on him. Filled with pity, the messenger of the gods, Mercury watches this happening. Van Baburen has presented...

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Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642)

Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642)

Artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Year 1633 Rembrandt painted this portrait of Saskia Uylenburgh in 1633. She was twenty years old at the time and had just become engaged to Rembrandt. They were married a year later. Saskia was the niece of the art...

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Paula Rego

Paula Rego

Paula Rego The Family 1988 In The Family the absent father and husband returns to the picture plane, only to be manhandled by his daughter and his wife. As usual, the narrative clues are ambiguous, and the story could have several endings. Are the women...

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Paula Rego

Paula Rego

The story at the heart of the painting came to Paula Rego ready-made in the form of Jean Genet's play The Maids (1947), itself based on the real-life case of the Papin sisters, Christine and Lea, who worked as maids for a rich Parisian family. One day,...

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The Jewish bride by Rembrandt

The Jewish bride by Rembrandt

An elegantly dressed man and woman are in a vague, dark room. The man has lovingly placed his arm around the woman's shoulder and a hand on her breast. Very carefully she touches his hand with her fingertips. Both are staring straight ahead, they seem...

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Jan Havicksz. Steen

 Jan Havicksz. Steen

TitleInterior of an Inn with an Old Man, the Landlady and Two Men Playing Backgammon, known as 'Two Kind Yearc. 1636-79 A group of men are having fun in a tavern. A young man is drinking beer, draining his tankard, while a couple of others are playing...

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Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George

Gilbert, b. 1943, Dolomites, ItalyGeorge, b. 1942, Devon, England Gilbert was born Gilbert Proesch in 1943 in the Italian Dolomites. He studied at the Wolkenstein School of Art and Hallein School of Art, Austria and the Akademie der Kunst, Munich. George...

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Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas

TITEL: Miss January 1997 Biography:1953Born in Cape Town, South Africa1972-1975 BA Fine Art, University of Cape Town1976-1978 Atelier 63, Haarlem, Netherlands1979-1980 Institute of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Artist's Writings Marlene Dumas I...

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Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Bearded Man with Loincloth, ca. 1909 Albertina, Vienna. Schiele's 1909-10 postcard designs anticipate several of his later allegorical concerns, such as the concept of the artist as a holy figure. Child with Halo in a Field of Flowers, ca. 1909, Albertina,...

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Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Two Men With Halos, ca. 1909, Albertina, Vienna. In late 1909 or early 1910, Schiele proposed a series of four postcard designs to the Wiener Werkstatte.Although many young artists, including Kokoschka, earned extra money doing projects such as this,...

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