tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7968761101230823169.post385241795836510170..comments2023-07-09T16:20:55.860+02:00Comments on Today in Social Sciences...: Venus at her mirror, Diego VelázquezPaqui Pérez Fonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825244803602259869noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7968761101230823169.post-55938019428107012232014-11-28T00:06:45.534+01:002014-11-28T00:06:45.534+01:00Hello,
First of all, you can’t change the font n...Hello, <br /><br />First of all, you can’t change the font nor its size. You have to respect the style of the blog. I’ve changed the fonts you used to make the text uniform. <br /><br /><br />I think that you forgot to include one picture you name: <i>Venus of Urbino</i>, by Titian<br /><br />These are my corrections. Erase the things in brackets: <br /><br />- <b>It is</b> not very clear where <b>he did</b> the painting, some people say that he d<b>id</b> it before his second trip to Italy and other<b>s</b> say that he painted it during h<b>is</b> visit in Italy. It was painted between 1647 and 1651. This painting was not commissioned by <b>anyone. I</b> i was just a painting that Velázquez d<b>id</b>.<br /><br /><br />- <i>The Venus at her mirror</i><b>’s</b> size is 122,5 x 177 cm. It is paint<b>ed</b> on oil <b>on</b> canvas. <br /><br />-...a mirror held by her son, <b>Cupid</b>. <br /><br />- The darkness of the sheets give<b>s</b> to the painting big contrast with Venus skin, making it look(s) lustrous. Velázquez went to Italy and there he painted <b>in</b> a different style, h<b>is</b> painting is a<b>n</b> influence of Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus and Titian’s Venus of Urb<b>ino</b>. As his painting <b>received the</b> influence of the other painting<b>s</b>, he painted his Venus mixing the postures of the other Venus<b>es</b> made by other painters . His Venus was consider<b>ed</b> as a personification <b>of</b> the female beauty.<br /><br /><br />-...ideal beauty with wide hips (mea<b>ing</b>t that they ate well),... The only thing that made this woman a goddess is the presence of his child(ren) Cupid(on) .<br /><br />- ... Venus is not looking <b>directly at the viewer</b>, she is represent with her back<b>, in a foreshortened position</b>.<br />This is the only surviving nude painting of Velázquez because in the 17th century it was rare(ly) <b>to</b> see a nude painting in the <b>Hi</b>pani<b>c</b> Monarchy (also because the <b>Inquisition controlled art and morality</b>).<br /><br /><br />- In 1914 Mary Richardson <b>went</b> to the museum <b>where this painting is located</b> and attacked Velázquez<b>’s</b> painting with a cleaver. She left seven marks on the canva<b>s</b> . When they asked her why <b>she had done</b> that she said: "I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history."<br /><br /><br />You should add that Mary Richardson was a suffragette, a woman who fought for the right to vote for women, an Emmeline Pankhurst was the leader of the suffragettes, imprisoned by the British government.<br /><br />Well done, but you have to be careful with English. There are several mistakes you shouldn’t make at this moment. Be careful with this. <br /><br />Your mark is 9. Good night.Paqui Pérez Fonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09825244803602259869noreply@blogger.com