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High society : life-size, standing and at full-length
Abstract
The stunning paintings in this book belong to the exclusive group of life-size, standing full-length portraits. This impressive type of single-figure portraiture was initially the special preserve of royalty and the high nobility, and later oh high society in general.
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High Society traces its development from the earliest indipendent works, executed by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1514, up to the beginning of the twentieth Century. In addition to showing these beautiful works of art, this publication demostrates the wide variety of forms and functions of this portrait type and relates the faschinating stories behind the subjects of the paintings.High society includes masterpieces by some of the greatest painters in the history of art, such as Rembrandt, Veronese, Frans Hals, Velazquez, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Manet, Sargent and Munch. The sitters count among thier number powerful emperors, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy commoners like Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, whose spectacular portraits are the only life-size, standing full-length pair Rembrandt ever made. [Fonte: quarta di cop.]
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