Beautiful Art: architecture, paintings, sculptures, etc
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My favorite painting of all time - "Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife" by Jacques-Louis David
Look at those details and variety of textures! Incredible.
My favourite cathedral of all time - cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.
This needs to be admired live, it's just breathtaking.
My favorite sculpture - Apollo and Daphne by Bernini.
The dynamics, the details, how was it possible to make something like this without god's help?
And my favourite clothing - Chinese traditional clothing Hanfu.
It's so sophisticated, spiritual, simply beautiful. And it comes with various colors and patterns!
My favorite painting of all time - "Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife" by Jacques-Louis David
Look at those details and variety of textures! Incredible.
My favourite cathedral of all time - cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.
This needs to be admired live, it's just breathtaking.
My favorite sculpture - Apollo and Daphne by Bernini.
The dynamics, the details, how was it possible to make something like this without god's help?
And my favourite clothing - Chinese traditional clothing Hanfu.
It's so sophisticated, spiritual, simply beautiful. And it comes with various colors and patterns!
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It has been a long time wish to have ample time to study Vermeer's painting, 'The Milkmaid,' up close.
The Milkmaid (Dutch: De Melkmeid or Het Melkmeisje), sometimes called The Kitchen Maid, is an oil-on-canvas painting of a "milkmaid", in fact, a domestic kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as "unquestionably one of the museum's finest attractions".[1]
The Milkmaid (Dutch: De Melkmeid or Het Melkmeisje), sometimes called The Kitchen Maid, is an oil-on-canvas painting of a "milkmaid", in fact, a domestic kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as "unquestionably one of the museum's finest attractions".[1]
I feel the same about this @Elisasheva ....I mean...Wow! The detail!
Modesty, 1749-52, by Antonio Corradini (1688-1752)
Modesty or Chastity or Veiled Truth by Antonio Corradini is a sculpture completed in 1752 during the Rococo period. Corradini was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro to sculpt a memorial for his mother in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, where the marble sculpture remains today.
Modesty was the last in Corradini's series of veiled female nudes. Although the woman’s veil is nearly translucent over her breasts, stomach, and face, in the folds of the veil around her arms, the back of her head, and her hips, there is room for both mystery and the slightest hint of modesty. The veil is immovable, rendering perfect clarity unattainable. In the unattainable exists a longing to see all, longing to seize the veil, discard it, and see what is beneath. Her body draws in the eye, hiding very little of her alluring nature, but the veil still covers her, creating a tension between eroticism and restraint, or perhaps redefining eroticism itself. Even as the viewer studies and wonders about the woman, she gazes aside, as is to make the final decision to refuse to allow the viewer a full picture of who she really is.
Vermeer and luminosity - a fantastic marriage!
Luminosity softens the painting and - to me - adds almost a 3D effect; rather like a present day photograph.
The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza was most probably painted in the 1850s. It is my favorite example of the technique:
