Baroque Catania III, Sicily
Anthony Van Dyck’s Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marchesa Durazzo is an example of the stylistic changes in Van Dyck’s painting between his First Antwerp and Italian periods. The portrait shows the beginnings of what can be called Van Dyck’s Italian style. While it lacks much of the overt iconography of some of Van Dyck’s later Genoese portraits of women, Portrait of a Woman shows many of the hallmarks of the aristocratic style Van Dyck would be well known for.
Going through my old academic papers makes me laugh.
Sir Anthony van Dyck. Archbishop Laud. 1635.
Oil on canvas.
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK.
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Cry Me A River - Julie London (The Very Best Of Julie London, 1955)
