Sotheby's Sales Rise 46% to $5.33 Billion on Contemporary Art
By Linda Sandler
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's, the world's
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Contemporary Art
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Nativity-Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684)
Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684) was a Spanish-born, Portuguese painter from the seventeenth century. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira, but she signed her work as, "Josefa em Óbidos" or, "Josefa de Ayalla". She is one of the relatively few female European painters known to have been active in the Baroque era. All of her work was executed in Portugal, her father's native country, where she lived from the age of four.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Reubens Adoration- 17th Century- Baroque
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.[citation needed] The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance sequence of courts, anterooms, grand staircases, and reception rooms of sequentially increasing magnificence. In similar profusions of detail, art, music, architecture, and literature inspired each other in the Baroque cultural movement[citation needed] as artists explored what they could create from repeated and varied patterns. Some traits and aspects of Baroque paintings that differentiate this style from others are the abundant amount of details, often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of subjects, and an overall sense of awe, which was one of the goals in Baroque art. Read more...Source:
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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