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  Baroque Art Analysis of Johannes Vermeer’s  Girl with a Pearl Earring     Painted between 1665 and 1666 Girl With a Pearl Earring is a 17 ½ x 15 3/8 in. oil painting on canvas by Johannes Vermeer. Girl With a Pearl Earring was made in the city of Delft in the Netherlands where Vermeer spent his entire life. It is unknown who this painting was originally created for but it soon made its way into the collection of his patron Maria de Knuijt (What’s Special). Vermeer most commonly was a genre painter, this painting however is classified as a tronie portrait (Zalazko, Girl). Tronies are a distinctly Dutch subcategory of portraiture that featured idealized faces or exaggerated expressions which means that this portrait is of no specific individual although a person may have posed for it (Girl). It is not fully accepted, but, if an individual did pose for this tronie, it would have most likely been Vermeer’s daughter Maria (Binstock). Maria was an excellent paint...

  Renaissance Art Analysis of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine Most anyone who has studied art even to the slightest degree is familiar with the name Leonardo Da Vinci. An artist, inventor, and scientist Da Vinci is one of the world's best-known artists. Indeed, one of his paintings the Mona Lisa is one of if not the most famous paintings in the world. This fact means that some of his other works are overshadowed by this masterpiece. Da Vinci moved to Castle Sforza in Milan Italy in 1482 to work as a court painter for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. During his 16 years stay in Milan, sometime between 1489 and 1490 Da Vinci created  Lady with an Ermine  (Winners).  Lady with an Ermine  is a 40.3 cm by 54.8 cm oil painting on a walnut wood board created for the Duke of Milan of one of his favorite mistresses Cecilia Gallerani (Lady). While living in Milan he also created  The Madonna on the Rocks  which is one of only four remaining pain...

  Art Analysis of van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses by Abigail Williamson               Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch impressionist painter in the 1800s. Although his work did not gain much notoriety until after his death, his art is now recognized as some of the best of its time. One of his more than 900 paintings is called  Wheat Field with Cypresses  (Shinn-Morris). After living for two years in Paris, developing his use of color and style, van Gogh began to grow tired of city life and set off for the countryside ( Vincent's ). In June of 1889, van Gogh began his first series of paintings in Saint-Rémy focused on the area's distinctive cypress trees (Wheat).  Wheat Field with Cypresses  in a 28 7/8 × 36 3/4 in. oil painting on canvas is the first work that he made of nature with this composition (Wheat). The work, such as this, that van Gogh made while living in the south of Fr...

           1.       A paragraph introducing yourself:        Hello everyone, my name is Abigail but I go by Abby. Whatever you choose to call me is fine (if you can come up with a fun nickname more points to you). My father is in the military so my family has moved around a lot. Some places we have lived in include Germany, South Korea, and Japan. I currently live in Colorado and will be moving to Missouri this summer. My hobbies include reading (novels and comics), crafting, cartoons, playing piano, watching movies and discussing them, and cooking. Generally, my favorite movie/tv genres are comedies and horrors but I enjoy all types. One of my all-time favorite shows is Bob’s Burgers. Currently, I’m working on earning my bachelor’s degree in fine art. When I graduate my goals are to become a storyboard/character designer for Pixar and indie games, illustrate children’s books, and design art toys.  2....