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...Breton renamed the work “Luncheon in Fur”, referring to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s sadistic novel Venus in Furs....
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...“Four Naked Women” may be sturdily elegant versions of Venus and the Three Graces, but they gather conspiratorially, with the sinister undertones of medieval superstition — this engraving is also known as...
...Titian: ‘Venus with an Organist and Cupid’ 4 Liquid assets a. Georges de la Tour: ‘The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds’b. Claude Monet: ‘Le déjeuner sur l’herbe’c....
...Some of the Cranach scholars who once so admired the “Venus” now believe her to be a forgery....
...Sotheby’s has now sent Orion a painting of Saint Jerome that it sold in 2012 for $842,500 as from the circle of the 16th-century artist Parmigianino....
...Today only a handful of works are agreed to be by his hand and most of those — “The Tempest” (in Venice’s Accademia), “The Sleeping Venus” (finished by Titian, currently in Dresden) and Vienna’s “Laura”...
...The earliest, Lorenzo Lotto’s fervent “The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Francis” (1504-06), still depends on the formal compositions of his teacher, 15th-century pioneer Giovanni Bellini –...
...Cranach’s sarcastic, sexy take on classical tradition, in which sinuous nudes such as the goddess in the National Gallery’s “Cupid Complaining to Venus” are adorned with jewels and lavish hats to suggest...
...In “The Sea Monster”, a myth of his own imagining, an Italianate nude stretches, Venus-like, across the scaly limbs of a captor who bears her away across the waters....
...One of the most striking paintings, the tortured St Jerome, is less than half-finished....
...The sensuous figures in Botticelli’s chalk, ink and wash “Allegory of Abundance” and “Pallas” are prototypes for his nymph-like goddesses in “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera”, at once classical and evocative...
...Cranach was no bigot: he continued to work for Catholic patrons, depicting one as St Jerome, supplying others with Madonnas....
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