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Ray Charles

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sharon tate

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Sharon Tate, 1966

Photographed by Orlando Suero.

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On the Suffolk Coast (1885) by Willard Metcalf

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The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella Brant, in the Honeysuckle Bower

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640)

Date: 1609-1610

Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on oak panel

Collection: Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, Germany

Description

You can almost smell the sweet fragrance of honeysuckle emanating from the garden alcove in this full-length portrait by Peter Paul Rubens of Rubens and his new wife, Isabella Brant. Few paintings convey the promise of wedded bliss and marital fidelity as this double portrait, likely painted as a gift for Isabella’s father.

Seated in their “garden of love,” the painting speaks of a steadfast and tender strength between husband and wife. This is exemplified by the clasped right hands of the united couple (to which Rubens’s left index finger points) that binds them in faithfulness forever, unto and after death.

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Portrait of Jean de Thevenot

Artist: Philippe de Champaigne (Flemish, 1602 - 1674)

Date: 1660-1663

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Description

Jean de Thévenot was a linguist, natural scientist, botanist, and traveler who wrote extensively about his journeys to the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey. He is also the man we can thank for introducing coffee to Parisian society in 1657 and for instructing the French in its use. We do not know why Philippe de Champaigne, one of the greatest French painters of the 17th century, painted his portrait but it is obvious he took pleasure in rendering the lavish fabrics, Turkish-inspired domed architecture, and almost translucent complexion of this striking and exotic figure.

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Salvador Dali / Poetry of América / 1942

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Mercedes 300SL

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Charles Courtney Curran

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Stanislav Ilyin (Russian, *1972)

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Ilya Repin

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Portrait of Nicola D'Inverno: John Singer Sargent, 1892.

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Coderch & Malavia (Spanish, b. 1959 and 1970)

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Giselle Photo by Sasha Gouliaev