tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post5797645018270217874..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Who Painted This? #47Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-16733819183730090762013-10-05T11:34:25.591+00:002013-10-05T11:34:25.591+00:00That's the ticket David - it's amazing wha...That's the ticket David - it's amazing what you learn while looking!Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-38194382120721486062013-10-05T05:40:29.066+00:002013-10-05T05:40:29.066+00:00Well.... bummer dude... I thought I recognized the...Well.... bummer dude... I thought I recognized the eyes too but apparently I was off which is why I could not find it. I was sure it was 15th or 16th century italian.<br /><br />This one, #47 I don't have a clue, but I'll try anyways.David Teterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747334525619423349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-48376534377678799252013-10-05T02:12:39.566+00:002013-10-05T02:12:39.566+00:00Subject: Artists's sister (Minerva?)
Title: Th...Subject: Artists's sister (Minerva?)<br />Title: The Chess Game<br />Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola<br />Date: 1555<br />Media: Oil on canvas<br />Housed: Poznan, Muzeum Narodowe<br /><br />Anguissola set a precedent for female artists as art students. She received a fine arts education and apprenticeships with local tutors. She became the tutor to the queen of Spain and later became the court painter to the king. The art historian Giorgio Vasari considered Anguissola the best female painter of her time. Michaelangelo also recognized her talent. She lived to the ripe old age of 93, which was highly unusual at that time (which is not art related, but still an interesting fact, IMO) . There seems to be some debate on whether this painting is a self-portrait of the artist on the left playing chess with her sisters or a portrait of three of her sisters. There also seems to be a debate on whether this painting signifies the exhibition of intellectual abilities or whether, by taking the queen in the game, the artist is showing that she's won the match and eluding to how she is just as capable as a male artist and should be treated as an equal. I like to think the latter.<br /><br />I am an art history student and I studied this artist and this painting in my Studies of Self-Portraiture class two weeks ago.<br /><br />Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03700349585909228568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-91382406097072414932013-10-05T01:03:05.498+00:002013-10-05T01:03:05.498+00:00Artist....Sofonisba Anguissola
Title....The Chess ...Artist....Sofonisba Anguissola<br />Title....The Chess Game / Portrait of the artist`s sisters playing chess<br />Date...1555<br />Medium...Oil on canvas<br />The smiling little girl pictured is Europa Anguissola, the other two sisters are Lucia and Minerva.<br />How I found it...I Googled a few painters such as Bronzino and Parmigianino, but the little girl seemed familiar,I knew I`d seen something similar ,possibly in a History of Art book, so looked up the biggest one I have and found Anguissola`s Portrait of the Artist`s Sisters and Brothers ,looked her up on wiki and found most of the details (which sister was which took a bit more searching)<br />Anguissola was an amazing woman by any standards.Given the restrictions on women, in her time, she must have been a very determined person to live her life as she did. Born in Cremona, Italy in either 1527 or 1532, she lived a long and successful life, dying in 1625. She was tutored by Michelangelo, became court painter to Phillip 11 of Spain and ,when a very old lady gave advice on art to a very young Anthony Van Dyck, who wrote down her words and also sketched her. From early on she frequently painted herself and her family, often casual and lightly posed. She is considered to have introduced intimate genre painting into formal portraiture , a very new idea at the time. She never sold any work but made her living by the kind of barter system that then existed , living at Court , receiving bed and board ( and beautiful clothes) in return for painting pictures. Though she signed an early Self Portrait "Sofonisba Anguissiola virgin". she did marry, was widowed and then married again. Vasari (who knew her ) writes very highly of her in his Lives of the Artists and also comments on her sisters` talents. Her father was a Humanist and seems to have brought his children up to believe in themselves and their abilities. There was a show of her work in the Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, in 1995.....perhaps it`s time for another one<br />I love the new type of challenge...I allowed myself to be sidetracked without having to think about time and learned a lot about an extraordinary woman in the process. It`s made me want to read a lot more about her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-21082853764180294492013-10-04T20:39:56.952+00:002013-10-04T20:39:56.952+00:00Hi Katherine,
The painting for "who Painted ...Hi Katherine,<br /><br />The painting for "who Painted This? #47" is The Chess Game by Sofonisba Anguissola. This oil on canvas created in 1555 resides at the Museum Navrodwe, Poznan in Poland. Its size is: 72 × 97 cm (28.3 × 38.2 in). it was purchased in 1823 by Atanazy Raczyński, Paris.<br /><br />I looked up renaissance paintings with children and it came up!<br />Regards<br />John<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347585186857349484noreply@blogger.com