Tag: purple

La morte di Cleopatra (1648)

Guercino (1591-1666) La morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) 1648 Oil on canvas, 173 x 237 cm Palazzo Rosso, Genova This painting, in which Cleopatra is depicted in the act of taking her life, in order not to suffer the shame…

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Director: Woody Allen Producer: Robert Greenhut Screenplay: Woody Allen Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romantic Music: Dick Hyman Country: United States Language: English Studio: Orion Pictures Release date: 1985 Running time: 82 minutes Mia Farrow (1945) as Cecilia Jeff Daniels (1955) as Tom…

Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco (c.1549)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco (Eleanor of Toledo and her son Francesco) c.1549 Oil on panel, 114 x 95 cm Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale, Pisa See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) | Francesco I de’ Medici…

Mademoiselle Sicot (1865)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Sicot 1865 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale, pink skin and cinnamon-brown hair sits with her hands in her lap…

Venus del Espejo (1647-1651)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Venus del Espejo (Venus at her Mirror, The Rokeby Venus) 1647–1651 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving female nude painted by Velázquez. The subject was rare in seventeenth-century Spain,…