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In reply to the discussion: Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]CTyankee
(63,893 posts)48. Rosso da Fiorentino's two angels "discussing" a book is lovely, but take a look at the rest of
that painting. It's a horror...http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.lib-art.com/artgallery/1425-rosso-fiorentino.html&h=1162&w=950&sz=139&tbnid=4tldmPHOiBXHmM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=74&zoom=1&usg=__dgrNc8tz89wDSCQpxyKqvvU9h-8=&docid=OrWHRwOqZB_bRM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6n0hUZ76AYWA0AH17oCwAg&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q9QEwBw&dur=565
It is why I don't like the artist so much (but he was, after all, a Mannerist), but of course the putti are lovely...what a difference!
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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
OP
Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#17
HINT: of the five remaining, one is British, one is French, one is Italian and 2 are American
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
I love the fact that critics found this work to be indecent because the nude wasn't
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#43
Rosso da Fiorentino's two angels "discussing" a book is lovely, but take a look at the rest of
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#48
It's a variation (!) of the "sacra conversazione" theme of the Madonna, Child and Saints that
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#46