English School ()

Allegory of painting

£1,000

SKU: 6492
Oil on a guilded ground

Size:
Height – 13.3cm
Width – 24.1cm

1 in stock

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Studio
Presentation:
framed

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.336.

Traditionally Allegories of painting show the main protagonist as a women, inspired by a female muse though, to reinforce Patriarchal norms, overseen by a wise old man.  One of the most  Allegory’s of Painting, is Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self Portrait,  La Pittura, also known as Autoritratto in veste di Pittura 

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