The Battle of Alexander at Issus's oil painting
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The Battle of Alexander at Issus is Albrecht Altdorfer's (c. 1480 -1538) most famous oil painting. Painted in 1528-9, the oil painting depicts a young Alexander the Great in 333 BC, at the point of victory over the Persian army of King Darius III in the Battle of Issus. The work was commissioned by the Duke of Bavaria and passed from the Bavarian royal collection to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
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this oil painting depicts three ships in close combat on a rough sea or ocean; as the name suggests, the battle occurs between two Turkish warships, and another ship referred to in the oil painting's title as the Russian brig Mercury. While Aivazovsky painted many seascapes, often involving ships and boats of various descriptions, and many showing ships that were damaged or shipwrecked, few of his works featured ships in close naval combat.
100 Great Paintings
2009-5-18 9:11:58 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
100 Great Oil Paintings was a television series created by Edwin Mullins for BBC 2 in 1980, in which he also acted as moderator. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of color, the hunt, and bathing, picking five oil p...
List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger
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This List of oil paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known oil paintings, as well as a few notable copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works.
The Last Supper (oil paintings)
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The Last Supper is a 15th century mural oil painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him.
Charles IV of Spain and His Family
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Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed between 1800-1801. The work was modeled on Velázquez's Las Meninas when setting the royal subjects in a naturalistic, and plausible set...
Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo)
2009-5-13 8:54:43 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The Adoration of the Magi is an early oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year, leaving the oil paintings unfinished. It has been in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1670.
Annunciation (Leonardo)
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The Annunciation (1472–1475) is a oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It depicts the annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she will conceive Jesus Christ and is set in the enclosed courtyard garden of a Florentine villa.Have same great oil paintings
Myths still being perpetuated
2009-5-11 1:26:43 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Whilst the van Eycks have been commonly believed to invent oil painting, we know for a fact that they didn't and that the process is well documented, at least as early as the beginning of the 12thc century.As for canvas oil painting, oil paintings on...
Overdoing an Oil Painting Instruction Formula
2009-4-27 7:7:35 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
I am a big advocate of understanding your oil painting supplies inside and out. Of learning a repeatable procedure so that, in a way, making oil paintings becomes as much a procedure as carpentry.The flip side of this is when people take it too far a...