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Tag Archives: portrait

In the Gallery – Marie Victoire Lemoine: Louis Benoit Zamor

by , in Art, Artists

Jun

19

Lemoine was an artist at a time when women were limited in their subjects. Education for women artists was limited by their exclusion from…

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Very Special Arts Festival 2012 – Day 1

by , Guest Services & Marketing in Education

May

01

Today is the first day of our VSA Festival for 2012. Today alone we saw about 1000 students with special needs and had over 700 volunteers helping us from around the community. Students…

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In the Gallery: Pier Francesco de Jacopo Foschi – Bartolomeo Compagni

by , in Art, Artists

Apr

24

This portrait is of wealthy, Florentine merchant Bartolomeo Compagni, who lived in London, where many other rich foreigners lived. Italians, like Compagni, were especially distinguished in import and export trade. He administered several “fund raisers” to support…

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The Cummer Wants to Inspire You

by , Director of Art Education in Artists, Education, Exhibitions

Mar

07

The artist John Singer Sargent once said, “Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend”.  What he meant was that his friends thought he painted them too realistically – blemishes and all! Before photography was invented important and wealthy people paid artists to paint their portraits.  These portraits provided important clues about lives [...]

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