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The Ugly Duchess. Portrait of an Old Man, c. 1517. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris. The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quinten Massys around 1513. The painting is in oil on an oak panel, measuring 62.4 by 45.5 cm. [1] It shows an old woman with wrinkled skin and withered ...
My Wife and My Mother-in-Law. " My Wife and My Mother-in-Law " is a famous ambiguous image, which can be perceived either as a young woman or an old woman (the " wife " and the " mother-in-law ", respectively). The young woman appears with her face turned away from the viewer while the old woman appears in profile, so the part of the drawing ...
Grace. (photograph) The original black and white photo. Later versions may have color or a second light source added. Grace is a photograph by Eric Enstrom. It depicts an elderly man (named Charles Wilden) with hands folded, saying a prayer over a table with a simple meal. In 2002, an act of the Minnesota State Legislature established it as the ...
The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken is a 1901 silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter in collaboration with George S. Fleming. The comic film depicts an unattractive old woman (played by celebrated vaudeville female impersonator Gilbert Saroni ) arriving at a photo studio to have her picture taken, and destroying all of the equipment ...
Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
Sheela na gig from Ireland in the British Museum (12th century) A sheela na gig is a figurative carving of a naked woman displaying an exaggerated vulva. These carvings, from the Middle Ages, are architectural grotesques found throughout most of Europe [1] [2] on cathedrals, castles, and other buildings. The greatest concentrations can be found ...
Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, and fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal, aesthetic display, such as being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S. [ 1][ 2] The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women.
Van Gogh used images from illustrated magazines to teach himself how to draw. Charles Bargue, a French artist, wrote two books on drawing that were a significant source of study for Van Gogh. Both written in 1871, one is "Cours de dessin" and the other "Exercises au fusain pour préparer à l’étude de l’académie d’après nature," Van ...