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LONDON MUSEUMS. British Museum. National Gallery Museum. British Museum. Gold body-chain from the Hoxne hoard. Chelsea porcelain ”Cleopatra” vases. Colossal statue of a man from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. Human headed minged buld and protective spirit.
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LONDON MUSEUMS British Museum National Gallery Museum
Colossal statue of a man from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos.
Head of a horse of selene from the east pediment of the parthenon.
A regatta on the Grand Canal ABOUT THE AUTOR: -Name: Canaletto -Nationality: Venician -Period: 1740-1900 TYPE OF ART PAINTING: -Landscape COLOURS: Light Subject: Reggata DETAILS: Oil and canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: One of the Venetian spectacles was the reggata which took place, during the carnival celebrations Prominent Venecian families lavishey decorated their boats. Several people are wedring typical carnival costume of a beack mask and cape. The frame was desgned to suit the mid-18th-century English interior for which the painting was purchased.
Le Chapeau de Paille ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: Peter Paul Rubens -Period: 1577-1640 TYPE OF PAINTING: -Portrait COLOURS: Light SUBJECT: Nature DETAILS: Oil and cak INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: He interpretates Greek and Roman culture also portraits.
Salome with the head of John the Baptist ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio -Nationality: Italian -Period: 1571-1610 TYPE OF PAINTING: Portrait COLOURS: Light SUBJECT: Religious DETAILS: -Material:Oil and canvas ITERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: King Herod, was so entranted by Salome´s dancing that he promised to grant any wish. Salome aked for the head of Saint John the Baptist on a plate. In many deptitions Salome appears triumphant, but here she tunrs away from the grisly fight. The old woman´s gesture encourages a sorrowful response to the dramatic event.
Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1595-1600) ABOUT THE AUTHOR -Name: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio -Nationality: Italian -Period: 1571-1610 TYPE OF PANTING: Portrait COLOURS: Light SUBJECT: Gender roles DETAILS: -Material: Oil and canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: The subject is likely to be an allegoric of the possible pain of Cove. The painting is one of several related work by Caravaggio made expressly for seling with a particular group of wealthy patrons in mind.
The Supper at Emmaus ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: Michelangelo da Caravaggio -Nationality: Italian -Period: 1571-1610 TYPE OF PAINTING: Portrait COLOURS: Light SUBJECT: Religious DETAILS: -Material: Oil and canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: After his resurrection, chirst walked to Emmaus with two disciples. The men only recognized him when they dined together and chirst blessed the bread, as he had done at the last Supper. Their keeper stands behind chirst one disciple starts out of his chair while the other throws his arms wide in the astonishmen.
Self portrait at the age of 34 ABOUT THE AUTOR: -Name: Rembrandt Belis hazzar´s Feast -Nationality: Holandés -Period: 1606-1664 (1640) Type of art: painting: self portrait Colours: dark brown Details: oil on canvas Interpretation and symbolism: He was a person who represents himself as wealthy, succesful and confident. The pose is talien from Titian´s one man with a Quilted Sleeve, with in the 17th century was thought to show the poet Ludovico Arister Reembrandt showed himself in the pose be given painters in Holand.
The Thames below Westmister • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • -Name: Claude Oscar Monet • -Period: 1840-1926 • TYPE OF ART PAINTING: Landscape • -Colours: Light • -Subject: Nature • Details: oil on canvas
The Hay Wain ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: John Constable -Nationality: English -Period: 1776-1837 TYPE OF ART: Painting, landscape -Colours: Bright -Details: Oil on canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: The “ hay wain” is the horse-drawn wagon shown crossing a ford. In the distance, labources can be seen culting hay in the fields.The siemary is that of the River Stour in constable native Suffolk.The red-roofed, white
Les Grandes Baignenses ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: Paul Cezanne -Period: 1888-1905 TYPE OF ART Painting: nude and landscape -Colours: Bright -Details: oil on canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: Eleven female figures repose in an imagimary landscape bordered by trees. The forms of the landscape mirror. The women´s sculpture bodien. Cezanne has outlined the women and the main features of the background I in blue, heightening the screme atmosphere.
The Umbrellas ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name; Pierre Auguste Renoil -Period: 1841-1919 TYPE OF PAINTING: Still life -Colours: light -Subject: Gendes roles -Details: husing harder contours and was muted colours. INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: The clothes of the group of figures on the right date from about 1880-1881, while the woman with a shopping booket on the left wears a dress fasionable in about 1885-1886 using a soft
The Entombment • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • Name: Michelangelo • -Nationality: Italian • Period: 1475-1564 • TYPE OF ART: Religious scene • -Colours: Light • -Subject: Religious ( The Bible) • INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM:This unfinished painting shows Christ's body being carried to his tomb.
Rain, Steam and speed ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: Joseph Mallord William Turner -Period: 1775-1851 TYPE OF PAINTING: Landscape -Colours: Light -Subject: Nature INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: The picture demostrates Turnerñs ability to capture atmospheric effects in paint.
Sunflowers ABOUT THE AUTHOR: -Name: Vincent Van Gogh -Period: 1853-1890 TYPE OF PAINTING: Landscape -Colours: Light -Subject: Gender rules -Details: Material: Oil and canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: Associated the colour yellow with hope and friendship.Decorations for his house in Arles.
Bathers at Acnieres ABOUTHTHE AUTHOR: -Name: George Seuiat -Period: 1859-1891 TYPE OF PAINTING: Landscape -Colours: Light -Subject: Gender roles -Details: Oil on canvas INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLISM: This work is bassed on preparatory drawings and oil sketches. f