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Zeuxis Choosing His Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy

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Description: Zeuxis Choosing His Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy

TitleZeuxis Choosing His Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy

Creator nameKauffman, Angelica

Creator nationality/cultureSwiss

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1775–1780

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationBrown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island

https://library.brown.edu/collections/amb/detail.php?ItemID=AB%2021

SubjectsPainting, SwissMythology, Classical, in artWomen artists

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Introduction: Becoming Pictures

Angela Rosenthal

Description: Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility

Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility

WHEN IN 1797 the German historian and art theorist Carl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) mused in a letter from Rome about his plan to compose a study...

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Angela Rosenthal

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Copyright© 2006 BY ANGELA ROSENTHAL

Related print edition pages: pp.1-13

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, British--18th centuryHistory painting, British--18th centuryArt patronage--Great Britain--18th centuryKauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Women artists--Switzerland--18th century

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