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the-evil-clergyman · 9 months

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La Naissance de Venus by Amaury-Duval (1862)

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random-brushstrokes · 1 year

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Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval - Madame de Loynes (1862)

When Amaury-Duval painted her portrait, the Comtesse de Loynes was still just Jeanne de Tourbey. The daughter of working-class parents from Reims, she took advantage of her beauty and wit to conquer Paris and, through her lover Prince Napoleon, to open one of the most brilliant Second Empire literary salons. This was keenly attended by writers and critics such as Charles Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, Alexandre Dumas, and also Gustave Flaubert, who admired her "panther-like graces and devilish wit". To do justice to such charms, Amaury-Duval called upon all the expertise he'd gleaned from portraits by his master Ingres; set in a jewel case of buttercup silk cushions, the brilliant black taffeta gown —extended by the deep purple drape and the jet-black hair— lend the downy face the opaline brightness of moonlight. The hypnotic gaze from the shaded gray eyes, framed by earrings in the neo-Greek style, celebrates the gift of this "admirable listener". But, comparable to the gaze of the Comtesse de Castiglione in her photographic self-portraits, this stage effect also introduces the intoxicating allure of the female sphinx, the enigmatic femme fatale, which enjoyed great success with the symbolists at the end of the century. The critic Emile Cantrel observed that, "There is a world and a half-world in those eyes". (source)

#Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval #french art #portrait #1860s

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visceral--feeling · 9 months

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La Naissance de Venus - Amaury-Duval // No Shame - 5 Seconds of Summer

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blogdemocratesjr · 2 years

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Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar by Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval

Bernard [of Clairvaux] observed, “It is therefore something worthy of admiration and exceedingly singular to see how they are as meek as lambs and, at the same time, more ferocious than lions, so that I almost doubt whether it would be better to refer them in both ways, in so far as they lack neither the meekness of the monk nor the courage of the warrior.” (p.51) … For the Templars, audacity, the prime virtue of the knight in The Song of Roland, must be balanced by wisdom—understood not only as sagacity in making the best use of one’s resources but also as moderation and harmony among fellow warriors. Belonging to an elite military and social group came with the duty to defend its moral image. (p.67)

— Barbara Frale, The Templars: the Secret History Revealed

#Knights Templar #Jacques de Molay #Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval #Barbara Frale

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ukdamo · 2 months

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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this soft portrait by Amaury-Duval - Musée des Beaux-arts, Bordeaux.

#portrait #Amaury-Duval #bordeaux #Musee des Beaux-arts

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cvmfaustus · 7 months

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The birth of Venus (1862) | Amaury-Duval (1808-1885)

#art history #art #painting #amaury-duval

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simena · 1 year

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EMMANUEL AMAURY-DUVAL

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gogmstuff · 1 year

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Pre-crinoline Victorian dresses (from top to bottom) -

1837 Maria Louise Alexandrine von Preußen geb. Prinzessin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach by Carl Joseph Begas (Klassik Stiftung Weimar, specific location ?). From Wikimedia 1311X1542.

ca. 1840 Lady Flora Hastings possibly by Edward Finden after E. Hawkins; portrait from the book Hastings of Hastings. From Wikimedia, attributions from British Museum Web site 2275X2263.

1840 Junge Dame bei der Toilette by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Wien Museum or Museen der Stadt Wien, specific location ? - Wien, Austria). From Wikimedia 1632X2048.

1842 Marquise Louis-Frédéric Foucher de Circé, née Marie-Marguerite Burthe by Amaury Duval (Musée Sainte-Croix - Poitiers, Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France). From Wikimedia; fixed spots, creases, & flaws w Pshop 743X1000.

Marie Karoline Austria Teschen by Robert Theer (auctioned by Christie's) From the lost gallery's photostream on flickr; fixed spots w Pshop 1884X2312.

Unknown woman by Sergey Zaryanko (Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts - Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia). From theebonswan.blogspot.com/2018/12/portrait-of-unknown-woman-1840s-sergey.html?view=magazine 781X999.

Probably Lady Adelaide Emelina Caroline Vane by Sir Francis Grant (auctioned by Christie's). From their Web site 1196X1574.

1842 Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony by Joseph Karl Stieler (location ?) From the lost gallery; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1459X1951.

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mythologer · 2 years

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Aréthuse et Alphée - Arethuse and Alpheus (1847) "Oil on canvas, “102 x 110 cm” [La Piscine, Roubaix, France] — Léopold Burthe (Franco-American; 1823 - 1860). Léopold Burthe is a rare artist whose biography remains little known. Born in New Orleans into a French family, he arrived in Paris between 1826 and 1830 where he became a pupil of Amaury-Duval around 1840. His regular appearances at the Salon were little noticed by the critics, but his submission in 1849 , Sapho, was acquired by the State and then sent to the Carcassonne museum. In addition, in 1881, the painter's sister included four paintings by her brother in her bequest to the Poitiers museum. This unpublished canvas is probably Burthe's submission to the Salon of 1847, listed in the catalog under number 257 with a quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses: "Pursued by Alpheus, Arethusa invoked Diana who changed her into a fountain". The scene precisely represents the metamorphosis of the young nymph whose hair liquefies to create a spring in the foreground. This mythological inspiration is one of the keys to the work of Burthe, who illustrated Daphnis and Chloe with a line for an edition produced post-mortem, by Hetzel, in 1863. The work fits perfectly, in his spirit and in his way, between the Hercules at the feet of Omphale from the 1846 Salon (Poitiers, Sainte-Croix museum) and the Sapho from the 1849 exhibition (Carcassonne, museum), in the neo-Greek style championed by Amaury-Duval. A magnificent linear elegance, well in the tradition of Ingres, a sharp drawing and a tangy palette are the characteristics of this painter, one of the rare Nazarenes of the French artistic scene with the enigmatic and suave Edmond Labrador.

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steliosagapitos · 9 months

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"The Birth Of Venus" by Amaury-Duval.

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formulatrash · 2 years

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have you ever had to interact with more controversial drivers like mazepin? what was it like?

yeah, weirdly I actually used to speak to Nikita quite a lot cus of junior series stuff. he is (or was) an odd combination of quite sweet in an almost naiive way and with these very hard-line, ultra masculinist tendencies. I don’t mean that in like a ‘things men do’ way, I mean the Putin masculinism which is this sort of cult of being hard, impervious, dominating etc.

(I am not sure masculinism is the right word? idk what it is in english. why am I so bad at speaking the language I write in for a job)

at the end of the day, in media pen or a press conference you’re unlikely to get too much weird behaviour from them because they’re aware there are eyes on them. like, if you’re saying “well, that was a good race for you, are you confident you’ll keep your result despite the track limits warning?” then the most you might get back will be like “I think these track limits issues are bullshit that’s killing racing, it’s just policing us away from being able to make moves” etc not, idk, “death to NATO and also I hate women”

and when they’re babies it’s. idk, I’m old? so like, not actually Nikita but quite a lot of the junior drivers could be my terrible sons so you try to be a little forgiving of them being weird or awkward or whatever. I was quite surprised by the naiive/sweet element of Nikita (if you watch F2 interviews with him it’s sort of oddly there and feels so directly opposite to knowing the guy beat Callum Ilott’s face in.

so, yeah. bit strange really. idk, they’re all (or a lot of them) damaged children aren’t they, to paraphrase Toto Wolff. just some of them work that out to become nice adults and some of them get deservedly put on an EU sanctions list for being a turbobellend.

in terms of other controversial ones, idk. I guess Sirotkin had a few, shall we say, blips but off-track he was always really sweet and when he did the Marrakech rookie test after losing his F1 seat he was really patient and earnest, absolutely no ego or whatever (which not all of the ex-F1 ones come to FE with)

trying to think who else is controversial now and my mind’s going blank. oh, maybe Loïc Duval? but that was mostly my controversy in that he went berserk at me in the Montreal media pen (it was a tense weekend) because of something Jack had said on the commentary, of all things. (not involving me, he’d just overheard me reassuring Jack he hadn’t said anything too bad, after Duval had had a go at him first)

first time I have ever had to seriously think ‘what the fuck do I do if a driver punches me’ - fortunately, Adam Carroll intervened.

??? I guess Andre. we seem to be friends now though, which is odd. and I mean, I guess Lucas sometimes? but Lucas is my bff, I love him. and neither of them are on any kind of Mazepin level they’re just, y’know. villain era sometimes. the Taylor Swifts of Formula E.

there’s plenty of drivers I’ve interviewed who are just incompetent or at least, not up to the standard of whatever series they’re in. I was a bit surprised that Amaury Cordeel hasn’t been punted up for the F2 media roundtable yet, given his ban looked like such a certainty - he’s a piece of work and all. properly should not have a racing license, not just because he’s a bit rubbish but off-track behaviour is hideous, including filming himself racing on public roads and DM’ing underage girls. but yeah, have yet to speak to the bloke so idk what he’s like.

#f1 asks

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knightstardust · 1 year

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