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4 unusual facts about "Portrait of Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile" by Anthony van Dyck


Anya Taranda

They eventually married on January 6, 1937 over the objection of both of their parents, because she was Gentile and he Jewish, but it turned out to be a lifelong love affair of inseparable devotion.

Benya Krik

Later, Mendel drinks up his family's money at the local saloon and begins an extramarital affair with Marusia Kholodenko, a 20 year-old Gentile.

Modern Woodmen of America

Religiously, the group was quite open, accepting "Jew and Gentile, the Catholic and Protestant, the agnostic and the atheist."

The Last Metro

Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of Lucas Steiner, a Jewish theatre director and his Gentile wife, Marion Steiner, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their theatre cellar while she performs both his former job as the director and hers as an actress.



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Anne Weightman

In May 1907, she commissioned Adolfo Müller-Ury to paint a portrait of Pope Pius X (now at the Graduate House at the North American College in Rome).

Augustus Daniel

In 1929, the Gallery bought the Wilton Diptych and Titian's group portrait of The Vendramin Family; these are considered the two major purchases of Daniel's directorship.

Avezzano

The first settlements in this area began with the construction works for the lake's drainage ordered by Emperor Claudius in the first century A.D. In the 15th century Avezzano was under Gentile Virgilio Orsini, who built the castle in 1490.

Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America

# "Clothes Make The Man" is a look at transvestite pornography, specifically the self-portrait personal advertistements, comparing them to the more "respectable" work of photographer Cindy Sherman.

Carnegie library

In 1935, the centennial of his Carnegie's birth, a copy of the portrait of him originally painted by F. Luis Mora was given to libraries he helped fund.

Castle to Castle

Kerouac was at dinner with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows at their apartment when he described Céline's work as "a portrait of existence as rotten and mad" (p. 301).

Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.

Charles Comfort

In 1997, Kwakiutl artist David Neel made the Captain Vancouver Portrait Mask, a carved mixed-media mask of the captain.

Christiana Morgan

The nude portrait statue of Morgan commissioned by Murray from Gaston Lachaise is now owned by the Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts.

Debacq

Charles-Alexandre Debacq (1804-1863), a French historical and portrait painter.

Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

The spots showcased photographs of regular women (in place of professional models), taken by noted portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Đura Jakšić

During his lifetime and after, though Jakšiċ had many admirers—they included Konstantin Danil, his former art teacher, portrait painter Katarina Ivanović, Uroš Knežević, painters Pavle Čorbanović, Jovan Popović, and Đorđe Krstić, and, among the poets and writers, Laza Kostić, Simo Matavulj, Kosta Trifković, Svetozar Miletić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Vojislav Ilić.

Emerson Samuels

He is perhaps best known for his portrait of Guyana President Forbes Burnham, completed in August 1984, which hangs in the Parliament Chamber.

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma is a 1603 portrait of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma by Rubens, now in the Prado in Madrid.

Fay Kleinman

One portrait of her grandson, Randy Napoleon at ten years old was purchased in 2005 by the Ypsilanti District Library in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where it hangs in front of the children's collection.

Florence MacKubin

Her life-sized portrait of Cardinal Gibbons was exhibited in 1903 in Baltimore and in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition.

Francis Dennis Ramsay

His formal training included reading Architecture at University College London and three years’ study in Florence (1953–1955) as a pupil of Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988), the internationally renowned grande maestro portrait painter of the 20th century (Annigoni subsequently became a godfather to Ramsay’s younger son, Justin).

Garfield Barwick

He first came to public prominence in the 1943 case over the artistic merits of William Dobell's Archibald Prize-winning portrait of the painter Joshua Smith; a losing entrant claimed the picture was caricature, not portraiture.

Greenwich Village Orchestra

In 2005, the Orchestra performed Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, narrated by former Senator Bob Kerrey.

I'll Never Heil Again

The winner of that battle is a portrait of Napoleon who grabs the bird from the bewildered Stooges, before running out of his frame.

Ian Dennis / Fox Bronte

In January 2010, he drank different coloured juices to change the colour of his urine - to create a portrait of British National Party leader Nick Griffin.

International museum and library of music

It's worth noting that there are many paintings by famous artists present in the collection, including the portrait of Farinelli by Corrado Giaquinto, the portrait of Johann Christian Bach by Gainsborough, and one of Charles Burney by Joshua Reynolds.

Jackson Burns

Burns has worked in many fields including lumberjack, pipeliner, heavy equipment operator, hydrostatic tester, private investigator, Olan Mills portrait photographer, karate instructor, motorcycle racer, door installer, salesman and amusement park supervisor until he broke into the movie stunt business.

Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage

American Graffiti is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in 1962 which spawned numerous imitations such as the TV series, Happy Days, and films like The Lords of Flatbush.

Jeffrey Dunstan

Bootham Park Hospital in York holds the only known portrait of him (artist unknown).

Jules Olitski

At an exhibit of the work of some of the great masters at the New York World's Fair in 1939 he was very impressed by Rembrandt's portraits.

Julia Janet Georgiana Abercromby

Her portrait on Benjamin Jowett was thought to very close to life and the letters from Jowett indicate a close friendship although Jowett was a friend of her brother Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown.

Karol D. Witkowski

In 1879 he enlisted in the Austrian Army (in 19th century southern Poland was occupied by Austria and named Galicia), where he gained popularity by making portraits of his fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including a portrait of General Duke William of Württemberg and portrait of Lieutenant Field Marshal Emanuel Salomon of Friedberg - Mírohorsky (this army officer also was a genre painter, it is possible, why later in USA Karl Witkowski became genre painter).

Louis Wiltshire

Wiltshire began his career by setting up his own Art Studio in 1988, employing a team of artists to create unique figurative works, including fine figurative work for Wedgwood potteries, figurative work for BBC Television portraying the work of artist Quentin Blake and Roald Dahl, and head portrait work for Spitting Image.

Lycett

Joseph Lycett (1774–1825), portrait and miniature painter, active in Australia

Marie de Régnier

Several artists and painters of the time took her portrait, including Jacques-Émile Blanche and Jean-Louis Forain.

Martin Lavut

In 2010 he completed a documentary about the eccentric portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer which premiered on TV Ontario.

Maxwell Armfield

A detail from Armfield's painting Self-Portrait (1901; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), was used as the cover illustration of the Oxford World's Classics 2006 edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Percival Ball

Ball was then given other commissions, including the statue of Sir William Wallace at Ballarat; Francis Ormond at Melbourne, and some portrait busts, now in the national gallery at Melbourne.

Pier Pander

He frequently traveled to The Netherlands where he became famous after his design for the portrait of Queen Wilhelmina for a Ducth coin in 1898.

Pietro Pezzati

Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (1902 - 1993), American portrait painter

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram is the second and final album by the band Ram Jam in 1978.

Portrait of Yevgeny Mravinsky

In 2007 the «Portrait of Yevgeny Mravinsky» has been described and reproduced in the book «Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School» among 350 selected works by artists of the Leningrad School.

Renaud Van Ruymbeke

Interviews and portrait of seven anticorruption judges: Bernard Bertossa, Edmondo Bruti Liberati, Gherardo Colombo, Benoît Dejemeppe, Baltasar Garzon Real, Carlos Jimenez Villarejo, Renaud Van Ruymbeke

Richard L. Bare

Born in Modesto, California, he attended USC School of Cinematic Arts where he directed his most notable student film, The Oval Portrait, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story.

Robert Walker Macbeth

His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth.

Ruthmere Mansion

In the hallway are a doll collection, a grandfather clock and art hanging on the walls and stairwell, including The Lost Profile by William Morris Hunt, a portrait of the painters' wife, and a self-portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse.

Šechtl

Josef Jindřich Šechtl (1877–1954), Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography

Sobhuza II

During this period Andy Warhol boosted her renown, and that of Swaziland, by including her portrait along with those of Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms, Beatrix of the Netherlands and Margrethe II of Denmark in his Reigning Queens series.

Stephen Alonzo Schoff

Among his other noteworthy portraits are Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Emanuel Swedenborg and a self-portrait after a W.H.W. Bicknell photograph.

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

Giovanni Bellini's portrait of the elected Duke of Venice has an official air and could hardly be more formal.

Tracey MacLeod

Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, Masterchef, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes.

William Dixson

Amongst the pictures offered as donations were a portrait of Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart and several portraits of Governor Phillip and Governor Macquarie.

William H. Tipton

He became quite popular as an outdoor portrait photographer, taking thousands of photographs of visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield, where he established Tipton Park.

Zucchetto

Menasseh Ben Israel for a portrait of Rabbi ben Israel wearing zucchetto-style yarmulke