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Johannes Vermeer. The young woman at the keyboard holds our eye with a direct gaze. The empty chair suggests she is expecting someone and the large painting of a naked Cupid, the god of erotic love, on the wall behind her may be a signal that she is waiting for her lover. Scenes of music making were a popular genr Room Bacchus and Ariadne.
The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship sails away in the distance. Bacchus, god o Bathers Les Grandes Baigneuses. This large painting is one of three pictures of female bathers that Cezanne worked on during the final decade of his life.
They represent the culmination of his lifelong investigation of Georges Seurat. He intended it to be a grand statement with which he would make his mark at the official Salon in the spring of , but it was rejected. It had become a popular weekend retreat from the city during the s. Monet made several oil sketches at the resort, including this pict Doge Leonardo Loredan. Giovanni Bellini.
Leonardo Loredan knows that he is being looked at, but he does not return our gaze. He is the doge, the ruler of the Venetian Republic; elected in , he ruled until his death in He wears white silk damask robes woven with gold and silver metal thread, clothing reserved for the most splend Equestrian Portrait of Charles I.
