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#arthistory

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Laura G, Sassy 70’s
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Your art history post for today: Woman in a Large Hat, ca. 1645–1650, by Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (1617–1678), oil on canvas, height: 92.2 cm (36.2 in); width: 81.7 cm (32.1 in), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. #arthistory

A woman wearing a flat hat (I have seen these called “pancake hats”). She holds a small bowl with leaves visible of some kind of fruit. From the website: “The basket the woman holds up is from western Africa or Brazil. Her remarkable hat gave rise to the idea that it originally came from Egypt. Van Everdingen's painting evokes an exotic, foreign atmosphere. Caesar was a master in painting fabrics. He masterfully observed how the skin colour can be reflected in the clothing. Notice the right sleeve of the Girl in a Large Hat, where he applied touches of pale pink paint in the grey shadow of a fold.”
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Green Wheat Field (1889) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890).
Van Gogh produced this painting during his stay in Saint-Paul de Mausole sanatorium near Saint-Rémy in June 1889. Unlike the artist’s other late paintings, this one gives a balanced and peaceful impression. Nonetheless, van Gogh’s impasto and relief style have remained.

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The painting depicts a field of wheat turning yellow with the Alpilles Mountains in the far back, a small house, and a dark tall cypress tree which dominates the painting composition.
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Wheatfield with Partridge (1887) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Van Gogh painted this rural wheat field while living in the crowded city of Paris. Before his move to the French capital, his main theme had been country life. For him, this summery painting was a brief return to that theme.

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Amid the waving wheat, we see poppies and cornflowers. A partridge emerges from the field and flies away.
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The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge (1730s) by Canaletto. This painting depicts Venice's business and commercial center. The distant building with an arcade at ground level and many chimneys is the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, which served as the warehouse of German merchants. Just to the right is the foot of the Rialto Bridge, and further to the right is the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi.

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A scenic view of the Grand Canal in Venice features gondolas and boats gliding through the water, with historic buildings lining the canal under a clear, blue sky.
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Ophelia among the Flowers (1900s) by French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916). He creates a deliberately ambiguous and dream-like response to Shakespeare’s drama, rather than a literal illustration of it. He makes full use of the rich colors of pastel to create a glowing and almost abstract design that evokes the effect of music.

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Ophelia, the doomed heroine in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, rests within a luminous space filled with vibrantly-coloured flowers. Unlike her vivid surroundings, her face is drained of color – we are not sure if she is dead or only sleeping. This association of youthful, but ill-fated, beauty with dreaming, sleep and death was a popular theme in much of the art and literature of the nineteenth century, particularly in its closing decades.
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Vase of Flowers in a Window (1618) by Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573-1621). This spectacular flower still life is one of the masterpieces in his oeuvre. Tulips, roses, columbine, iris or carnations – all flowers are very faithfully rendered, each with its own specific features. The lighting is even and all the flowers are very visibly and frontally presented, the only exception being the fritillary which is partially concealed among the stems.

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The flowers, the majority of which are foreign and rare, are arranged in a remarkable glass decorated with masks. The vase and flowers are set in a stone window, which nicely frames the bouquet. Usually, such niches are closed off at the back, but Bosschaert opened it up affording a vista of a sweeping mountainous landscape with a broadly winding river.
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Amo Te Ama Me (1881) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).
He has just asked her to marry him; she contemplates her answer, gazing shyly at the bouquet of roses. Alma-Tadema took the title (‘I love you, love me too’) from a novel by his friend Carel Vosmaer. In this sweet story this text is engraved in a Roman ring.

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