Period painting

And we salute her.

Art Post Gallery on Instagram: "Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), c. 1901-02 Pablo Picasso, Blue Period. The subject of the painting is unknown, but she is considered to be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris. The painting is listed as one of the most expensive paintings after it achieved a price of $55 million at Christie's auction on 8 November 2000. #picasso #pablopicasso #spanishart #art #cubism #portrait #woman #with #folded #arms #museum #arthistory…

The Tif by Eugène Pierre François Giraud (auctioned by Christie's). From their Web site. This was offered with The Secret Letter. The Tif is also badly damaged, but shows everyday good dress.

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Probably on this day in 1483, Raphael Sanzio, one of the greatest Renaissance masters was born. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplato

Painting of a bust-length woman looking over her shoulder and wearing a headdress and a large pearl earring.

During the early and mid-Victorian era, a great many health and beauty books echoed the popular 19th century sentiment that plumpness equaled good health. It was leanness, not heaviness, to which beauty experts directed the majority of their criticism. For example, in his 1870 book Personal Beauty: How to Cultivate and Preserve it in Accordance with the Laws of Health, author Daniel Brinton states that a “scrawny bony figure” is “intolerable to gods and men.” According to Brinton, the only…