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Gérard de Lairesse
(Liège 1640 - Amsterdam 1711)
Allegory of the senses.
Oil on canvas 86 x 116 cm
Est. 25 000 €
Hammer price 50 000 €
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Nabecor enchères
In Florence the painter was her own woman, she had a child with her husband as well as an affair which her husband accepted. However she fell out with the latter over spending her money & she moved to Rome in 1621. Allegory of Painting (nd), Bathsheba (1650) & Adoration (1636)
An Allegory with a Boy Lighting a Candle in the Company of an Ape and a Fool (Fábula), by El Greco
Enjoy your Sundays Allegory
As long as they last
In this almost normal world
Until the banks and piggy banks all run dry
Art by Alexander Kumpan
The Wednesday Hemingmood
Shoot them all bastards
Just an ethylic allegory...
Art by Xi Zhang 'wardaddy'
The allegory of utopia
But we must start somewhere
Art by Kevin A Williams
'Watch Where You Pointing That Thang'
2/2 Collaborating again in an allegory of Earth: Paul de Vos (whose day is today), working with his brother Cornelis de Vos.
Allegory on the Art of Drawing with the Emblem of the Artist, Hendrick Goltzius, 1612 https://t.co/csTQ1ufWBb #hendrickgoltzius #harvardartmuseums
There is a small but extremely choice collection of Spanish works. El Greco (1577-9) An Allegory, Velázquez (1618) An Old Woman Cooking Eggs & Murillo’s Personification of Summer (1640). The Old Woman is one of Velázquez’s earliest works.
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
c. 1670–72 (Met Museum)
Johannes Vermeer.
He converted to Catholicism before marrying - the interior with chalice, missal, crucifix, may also refer to the celebration of the Mass in "hidden churches" in private homes at this time.
By 1577 El Greco had moved to Spain. It’s likely that his reported arguments with both artists & patrons led him to seek his fortune in Madrid & Toledo. Lady (1577-80), Allegory (1577-9) & St Sebastian (1577-8). Some have questioned the Lady Portrait which is in Glasgow.
The allegory of the day
Proper sign language
Do it in style...
Art by Marion Peck
Friday Morning
Have a healthy breakfast
Pork pie or bacon and eggs
All scrambled
Avoid allegory allergy
Art by Jim Bryson 'burning pig'