Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring

This painting is a great painter vermeer 1665 as the Dutch.Paintings with girl wearing a pearl earring as the focal point of the Angle of view, is set in the dark, foil girl sideways look back feeling.Painting appeared in more than three hundred years, the world is amazing for it: the soft clothes line, earrings, light and shade change, especially the women's side looking back, an awkward, like smile also Chen to look back, only to match the Mona Lisa smile.

Johannes Vermeer (Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675), one of the greatest painters of the Dutch, but forgotten for two centuries.Vermeer works are mostly custom theme paintings, largely drawn from ordinary life.His painting is the whole picture sweet, comfortable, quiet, give a person with solemn feeling, fully show the Dutch citizens that the clean environment and the be fond of of elegant and comfortable atmosphere.Vermeer lasted only about 40 of the works of, most of them are painting products.Referred to as "small Dutch painting".

Florinda

Oil Painting Reproductions

Florinda by a German painter and lithographer Franz Xaver Winterhalter. It was completed in 1853 and is based on Neoclassicism style by use of literary painting genre. The dimensions of the painting is 178.4 by 245.7 centimeters and is housed at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

The Raft of the Medusa

Oil Painting Reproductions

The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault. Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.It is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816. At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation and dehydration and practiced cannibalism. The event became an international scandal, in part because its cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French captain perceived to be acting under the authority of the recently restored French monarchy. In reality, King Louis XVIII had no say in the captain's appointment, since monarchs were not directly involved in appointments made to vessels like a naval frigate. The appointment of the vicomte de Chaumareys as captain of the Méduse would have been a routine naval appointment, made within the Ministry of the Navy.

The Creation of Adam

Oil Painting Reproductions

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, forming part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted circa 1511–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. The fresco is part of a complex iconographic scheme and is chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis. It is the most well-known of the Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece of art is rivaled only by the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

The Hay Wain

Oil Painting Reproductions

The Hay Wain Oil Painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on theRiver Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's most famous image" and one of the greatest and most popularEnglish paintings.

Truth

Oil Painting Reproductions

The painting is contemporary with the first small scale model made by Lefebvre's fellow-FrenchmanFrédéric Bartholdi for what became the Statue of Liberty, striking a similar pose, though fully clothed.
 

The Gleaners

Oil Painting Reproductions

The Gleaners is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was received poorly by the French upper classes.