Rembrandt and his Leiden school painted with the “patience of saints, and the industry of ants” in order to “take the illusionistic depiction of objects to their furthest extremes.” This self-portrait is an example, done in 1629. (Wetering, P 160)
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Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, Raffaello Sanzio
1512-15
Oil on wood, 60 x 44 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Man Ray, Self-Portrait, 1933
Titian, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1508-10
Portrait of a young man, Pietro Perugino. Italian Early Renaissance Painter (ca.1445-1523)
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Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
On stage from the age of three, Joseph Frank Keaton was nicknamed Buster by Houdini, He was the youngest, most cinematically inventive and endearing of Hollywood’s three greatest silent comics (the others being Chaplin and Lloyd), and the only one to experience post-stardom obscurity, though, fortunately, his films were discovered and his reputation restored in the 1960s. The stone-faced Buster was the determined, dedicated everyman, a Sisyphus who sometimes manages to get his stone over the hill. His finest films – The Play House (1921), Sherlock Jr (1924) and the railroad epic The General (1926) – are unsurpassed
Emil Nolde - Mulattin in Mirror (1913)
In the Woods at Giverny, Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading, 1887, Claude Monet.
Félix Edouard Vallotton, Femme assise dans un fauteuil
GPOY I’M GLAD MONDAY IS ALMOST OVER
Julia Gukova. Illustration from The Legendary Unicorn, 2004
Wingate Paine
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Ushio Amagatsu
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, The Uninvited Guest
