Women in Art _ for Adults :
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The Creation of Eve, 1510
And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.’ Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said:
‘This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.’
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. / GENESIS 2:18-25
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Women are the sources of life.
We are the birth givers, the nurturers,
the mentors and the molders of the present and the future.
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Since the beginning of humanity,
women have been worshiped, adored,
cherished and admired.
They also have been defamed, castigated,
condemned, abused, maligned,
raped and murdered.
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Women are lovers, wives, mothers, healers,
writers, artists, inventors,
queens, princesses, presidents, administrators,
tradespeople, laborers, aviators, astronauts,
navigators and soldiers.
They serve many and give to all walks of life,
yet they are more than mere mortals
because they remain the source of all life.
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Because women are so much to so many,
they have been depicted
on cave walls and in oil portraits.
They are a favorite subject of artists
in all genre
since they represent beauty and bounty,
mayhem and madness, courage and constancy,
seduction and sex, nakedness and style.
They are the world to the world.
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-Venus (mythology) :
Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was venerated in Roman religion under numerous cult titles.Venus on seashell, from the Casa di Venus, Pompeii. Before 79 AD.
-The Birth of Venus:
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence
Primavera :
Sleeping Venus (1510)_The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, with, it is now generally accepted, the landscape and sky, by Titian, completed after Giorgione's death in 1510, asVasari first noted. It is in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.
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| Aphrodite | |
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| Goddess of love, beauty and sexuality |
Aphrodite :the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus
-Aphrodite of Cnidus:
Venus de' Medici :
The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a lifesize Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greekgoddess of love Aphrodite. It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of the Aphrodite of Cnidos, which would have been made by a sculptor in the immediate Praxitelean tradition, perhaps at the end of the century. It has become one of the navigation points by which the progress of the Western classical tradition is traced, the references to it an outline of the changes of taste and the process of classical scholarship. It is housed in theUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
-Venus de Milo :
Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Μήλου, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works ofancient Greek sculpture. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). It is amarble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) high. The arms and original plinth were lost following its discovery. From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. It is currently on permanent display at the Louvre Museumin Paris.
Mona Lisa :
he Mona Lisa (Monna Lisa or La Gioconda in Italian; La Joconde in French) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world."
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506, although Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797
-Bacchus and Ariadne_Antoine-Jean Gros(16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835) _c. 1821 :
-Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) - Austrian artist :
Hans Zatzka, an Austrian artist, was born March 8, 1859, in Vienna and died 1945 or 1949. He was a painter of religious compositions, allegorical subjects, genre scenes and figures. He was the student of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna from 1877 to 1882. He decorated numerous churches of Vienna, Mayerling, Olmutz and Innsbruck.
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-La Liberté guidant le peuple _ (Liberty Leading the People):
Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolor flag which is still France's flag today – in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne.
-The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette)
The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette), also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing (French: Les Hasards Heureux de l'Escarpolette, the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered as one of the masterpieces of the rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work.
-The Coronation of Napoleon:
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The Intervention of the Sabine Women is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David.
-Flaming June (1895)Leighton, Frederic:
-Hylas and the Nymphs 1896_John William Waterhouse
- Young Lady in a Boat_ James Tissot_(1836 –1902) was a French painter
-Grande Odalisque :
Grande Odalisque, also known as Une Odalisque or La Grande Odalisque, is an oil painting of 1814 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres depicting anodalisque, or concubine. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres' break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exoticRomanticism.
Grande Odalisque attracted wide criticism when it was first shown. It has been especially noted for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism. The work is housed in the Louvre, Paris.
The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, orLa Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), the leading artist of theSpanish Golden Age. Completed between 1647 and 1651.
-Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time :
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (also called An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus) is an allegorical painting by the Florentineartist Agnolo Bronzino. It is now in the National Gallery, London.
About 1546, Bronzino was commissioned to create a painting that has come to be known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time. It displays the ambivalence, eroticism, and obscure imagery that are characteristic of the Manneristperiod, and of Bronzino's master Pontormo.He painted several carefully drawn portraits of the Medici family
In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupido, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus, and is known in Latin also as Amor("Love"). His Greek counterpart is Eros.
Although Eros appears in Classical Greek art as a slender winged youth, during the Hellenistic period he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that represent his source of power: a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid's arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire.
Venus and Cupid, late 1520s Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1480–1556)
In this playful and evocative work, the brilliant Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto has created a paradigmatic marriage painting, the visual equivalent of a poetic epithalamium, or marriage poem. These lyrical, ancient poems or songs were performed at weddings and often began with verses in which Venus was roused from her bower to bless the bride and groom. There was a widespread revival of the form during the Renaissance. Lotto's genius was to wed contemporary symbols—such as the Venetian bridal tiara and a cupid who urinates to symbolize fertility—to the underlying classical imagery.
Although we do not know for whom this unique painting was done, it may have been for a client in Bergamo, where Lotto lived for a decade until 1525, and where, tantalizingly, a Sposalitio d'Amore (Marriage of Love) was recorded in the Tassi collection in the seventeenth century.
The Kidnapping of Amymone (1865)_Felix Henri GIACOMOTTI :
The Kidnapping of Amymone (1865)_Felix Henri GIACOMOTTI :
-Diana & Cupid, 1761_
Pompeo Batoni (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome)
-Paris and Helen :Artist: Jacques-Louis David _Completion Date: 1788
-Louise O'Murphy c. 1752_François Boucher,
King's mistress: Artist Francois Boucher showed his painting to King Louis XV - and the teenage Marie-Louise O'Murphy became his mistress
Mademoiselle O’Murphy was born in France in 1737, the daughter of an Irish officer who had fought for the French crown. At the age of 14, she was ‘talent-spotted’ by Casanova, who mentioned her in his infamous diaries.
Boucher painted her nude lying on her stomach in a tousled bed. The picture is now one of the treasures of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where it is sometimes known as ‘Our Lady of the Potatoes.’
Boucher showed the picture to Louis. For the next two years, the teenaged Marie-Louise was the king’s mistress, and had a daughter by him.
She lost her place in court only when she became too ambitious and tried to oust the older and wiser mistress, Madame de Pompadour. The Irish teenager was then married off to a French aristocrat, the Count de Beaufranchet.
The count was killed in battle soon after. But Marie-Louise was unsinkable. She survived the Revolution and the Terror, and married twice more, once to a man who had done well under Napoleon. The gateway to her grand Parisian house in the 9th arrondissement is still marked with a plaque.
According to family history, the three marriages left the aging ex-courtesan with enough money that, by the early 19th century, some of her children could return to the O’Murphy’s native city of Cork.
In 1856, the family founded Murphy’s Brewery, as famous in Cork as Guinness is in Dublin.
The Irish, who are particularly proud to have one of their own as Britain’s highest ranking Roman Catholic - the Cardinal’s parents immigrated to England from Cork - often refer to the Cardinal’s links with the famous brewing family. They don’t usually mention his apparent descent from Our Lady of the Potatoes.
Perhaps that will change if the prelate embraces this opportunity to choose the most stylish new title of any of the life peers: ‘Cardinal the Lord Murphy-O’Connor of Versailles.’
-La Naissance de Vénus
The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)
-La Naissance de Venus
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Invation
-Dicksee, Romeo & Juliet 1884 :
The Three Graces - Raphael (1504) :
-Leda and the Swan 1510-1515 by Leonardo da Vinci
La Vague, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1896)
-Lady Godiva ~1898, Herbert Art Gallery &
Museum_The Honourable John Maler Collier(1850 –1934) was a leading English artist.
Untitled Nude Brunette, Bruno Di Maio
-The Storm (La Tempête) is a painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot, completed in 1880.
Elsa :
Le duo :
Miranda:
Cléopâtre :
-Spring, 1873 _Pierre Auguste Cot_(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
Narcissus-Waterhouse 1912 :
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Hans Zatzka _1859 - 1945_Vienna, Austria.
Hans Zatzka, also known as P. Ronsard,Zabateri, Pierre de Ronsard, Joseph Bernard and Bernárd Zatzka, was born March 8, 1859 in Vienna, to a builder and his Viennese actress wife, Hilde Sochor.
Zatzka showed an early interest in painting. From 1877 to 1882 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studying under Christian Griepenkerl, Karl Wurzinger, and Carl of Blaas. In 1880, at the age of 20, he was awarded the Golden Fügermedal; the golden decoration for services to the city Vienna.
After several trips to Italy, Hans worked in the style of his predecessor, Hans Makart, as a free-lance painter in Vienna, painting ceiling frescoes in stairway houses and residential buildings, numerous murals for altars in churches, and portraits. It was during this time that he developed as special interest in academic genre paintings of idyllic women and cupids.
From these representations, Zatzka turned to painting guardian angel images, elves, sensuous female figures, genre scenes, allegories and other popular motifs. He was a greatly influenced by the operas of Richard Wagner and considered ground-breaking in the production of "bedroom pictures" or "towel format", a term used to describe a format that fit the low ceiling and cramped spaces. By the 1920's this style was the size of choice for most European homes.
By the turn of the century, Zatzkas' pictures turned to picture postcard sales in the galleries of Viennese artists, and ultimately sold to other publishers. In 1906, Zatzka gave precise orders for mass production on a trial basis. By 1914, the first of Hans Zatzkas' bedroom images were distributed.
Hans Zatzka did not make his living from postcards but from his religious frescoes in churches, altar paintings, and other large commissions such as hospitals in Vienna during the 1920's. He lived in his home studio, never took in students or teaching jobs and painted until the 80th year of his life.
Hans Zatzka died December 17, 1945.
By 1980, demand for Hans Zatzka paintings in the United States enjoyed great popularity and significantly increased the value of his work. Zatka's work is now sold internationally in galleries and auction houses, fetching large sums of money. In 2004, Somalia published special stamps with four motifs of images Zatzka: harem dancer, nymphs, spring goddess, and night sky.
Hans Zatzka, aussi connu comme P. Ronsard, Zabateri, Pierre de Ronsard, Joseph Bernard et Bernárd Zatzka, est né le 8 mars 1859 à Vienne, à un entrepreneur et sa femme d'actrice viennoise, Hilde Sochor.
Zatzka a montré un premier intérêt de peindre. À partir de 1877 à 1882 il a assisté à l'Académie de Beaux-arts à Vienne, faisant les études sous Christian Griepenkerl, Karl Wurzinger et Carl de Blaas. En 1880, à l'âge de 20 ans, on lui a décerné Fügermedal D'or; la décoration d'or pour les services à la ville Vienne.
Après plusieurs voyages en Italie, Hans a travaillé dans le style de son prédécesseur, Hans Makart, comme un peintre free-lance à Vienne, en peignant des fresques de plafond dans les maisons d'escalier et les bâtiments résidentiels, les nombreuses peintures murales pour les autels dans les églises et les portraits. Il était pendant ce temps qu'il s'est développé comme l'intérêt spécial pour les peintures de genre théoriques de femmes idylliques et de Cupidons.
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-Esmeralda's dance from the 1956's French movie 'Notre Dame de Paris' _with Gina Lollobrigida_Enrico Macias - Zingarella -Gina Lollobrigida :
"A woman"
“Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.” – This is written in the Hebrew Talmud, the book where all of the sayings and preaching of Rabbis are conserved over time.
LARMES DE FEMME
Messieurs ne faîtes jamais pleurer une femme.
Il est écrit dans le Talmud des Hébreux, un livre où les écrits des Rabbins sont compilés à travers les âges...
A la fin du livre il est dit:
<< Soyez très prudent avant de faire pleurer une femme, car Dieu compte leurs larmes!>>
<< La femme est venue de la nervure de l'homme.
Non pas de ses pieds pour être un pas au dessus.
Non plus de sa tête pour être supérieure.
Mais de sa côte... pour être son égale.
Elle doit être placée, sous votre bras pour être protégée.
Et sous le côté de votre coeur... pour être aimée.>>
Alors messieurs, réfléchissez avant de faire pleurer une femme,
car aucune femme ne mérite qu'on la fasse pleurer
et n'oubliez pas que dans un avenir plus ou moins proche,
vous devrez rendre des comptes devant l'éternel,
de tout le mal que vous aurez fait sur cette terre !!!
Et n'oubliez pas non plus que par la gentillesse et la tendresse
vous obtiendrez tout d'une femme, par la trahison ou la méchanceté,
vous n'obtiendrez rien du tout, les seules choses que vous risquez d'obtenir,
c'est la perte de l'estime qu'elle a encore pour vous, la perte de confiance
et surtout la perte de son amour.
Même si elle ne vous quitte pas, chaque déception et chaque cicatrice du cœur, laissent des marques indélébiles et bien souvent les sentiments diminuent irréversiblement.
Alors je vous laisse méditer là-dessus !
Paroles de femme.
A la fin du livre il est dit:
<< Soyez très prudent avant de faire pleurer une femme, car Dieu compte leurs larmes!>>
<< La femme est venue de la nervure de l'homme.
Non pas de ses pieds pour être un pas au dessus.
Non plus de sa tête pour être supérieure.
Mais de sa côte... pour être son égale.
Elle doit être placée, sous votre bras pour être protégée.
Et sous le côté de votre coeur... pour être aimée.>>
Alors messieurs, réfléchissez avant de faire pleurer une femme,
car aucune femme ne mérite qu'on la fasse pleurer
et n'oubliez pas que dans un avenir plus ou moins proche,
vous devrez rendre des comptes devant l'éternel,
de tout le mal que vous aurez fait sur cette terre !!!
Et n'oubliez pas non plus que par la gentillesse et la tendresse
vous obtiendrez tout d'une femme, par la trahison ou la méchanceté,
vous n'obtiendrez rien du tout, les seules choses que vous risquez d'obtenir,
c'est la perte de l'estime qu'elle a encore pour vous, la perte de confiance
et surtout la perte de son amour.
Même si elle ne vous quitte pas, chaque déception et chaque cicatrice du cœur, laissent des marques indélébiles et bien souvent les sentiments diminuent irréversiblement.
Alors je vous laisse méditer là-dessus !
Paroles de femme.
Woman
When God created woman he was working late on the 6th day
An angel came by and said: “Why spend so much time on that one?”
And the Lord answered: “Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her ?"
“She must be washable, but not made of plastic, have more than 200 moving parts which all must be replaceable and she must function on all kinds of food, she must be able to embrace several kids at the same time, give a hug that can heal anything from a bruised knee to a broken hearth and she must do all this with only two hands”.
The angel was impressed.“Just two hands....impossible!“
An angel came by and said: “Why spend so much time on that one?”
And the Lord answered: “Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her ?"
“She must be washable, but not made of plastic, have more than 200 moving parts which all must be replaceable and she must function on all kinds of food, she must be able to embrace several kids at the same time, give a hug that can heal anything from a bruised knee to a broken hearth and she must do all this with only two hands”.
The angel was impressed.“Just two hands....impossible!“
And this is the standard model?!
“Too much work for one day....wait until tomorrow and then complete her“.
“I will not”, said the Lord. “I am so close to complete this creation, which will be the favourite of my heart”.
“I will not”, said the Lord. “I am so close to complete this creation, which will be the favourite of my heart”.
“She cures herself when sick and she can work 18 hours a day”.
The angel came nearer and touched the woman.
“But you have made her so soft, Lord” “She is soft", said the Lord, “But I have also made her strong. You can’t imagine what she can endure and overcome.“
“But you have made her so soft, Lord” “She is soft", said the Lord, “But I have also made her strong. You can’t imagine what she can endure and overcome.“
“Can she think?" the angel asked.
The Lord answered:
“Not only can she think, she can reason and negotiate."
The angel touched the womans cheek....
“Lord, it seems this creation is leaking! You have put too many burdens on her.”
“Not only can she think, she can reason and negotiate."
The angel touched the womans cheek....
“Lord, it seems this creation is leaking! You have put too many burdens on her.”
“She is not leaking....it’s a tear” the Lord corrected the angel
“What’s it for?" asked the angel.
And the Lord said:
“Tears are her way of expressing grief, her doubts, her love, her loneliness, her suffering and her pride.”
This made a big impression on the angel; “Lord, you are genius. You thought of everything.
And the Lord said:
“Tears are her way of expressing grief, her doubts, her love, her loneliness, her suffering and her pride.”
This made a big impression on the angel; “Lord, you are genius. You thought of everything.
The woman is indeed marvellous!"
Indeed she is!
Indeed she is!
Woman has strengths that amazes man.
She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens.
She holds happiness, love and opinions.
She smiles when feeling like screaming.
She sings when she feels like crying, cries when she is happy and laughs when she is afraid.
She fights for what she belives in.
Stand up against injustice.
She doesn’t take “no” for an answer, when she can see a better solution.
She holds happiness, love and opinions.
She smiles when feeling like screaming.
She sings when she feels like crying, cries when she is happy and laughs when she is afraid.
She fights for what she belives in.
Stand up against injustice.
She doesn’t take “no” for an answer, when she can see a better solution.
She gives herself so her family can thrive.
She takes her friend to the doctor if she is afraid.
Her love is unconditional.
She cries when her kids are victorious.
Her love is unconditional.
She cries when her kids are victorious.
She is happy when her friends do well.
She is glad when she hears of a birth or a wedding.
Her heart is broken when a next of kin or friend dies.
But she finds the strength to get on with life.
She is glad when she hears of a birth or a wedding.
Her heart is broken when a next of kin or friend dies.
But she finds the strength to get on with life.
She knows that a kiss and a hug can heal a broken heart.
There is only one thing wrong with her
We forget what she is worth.
There is only one thing wrong with her
We forget what she is worth.
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