Angelica and Medoro
Angelica and Medoro c1763 by French Painter Francois Boucher (1703 – 1770), he tangata mohio hoki ia ki te tuhi tuhi, ki te mahi whakairo. I mahi ia i roto i te Rococo Style a e mohiotia ana mo ana kaupapa puāwaitanga tino ataahua, pastoral scenes and decorative allegories.
This is a beautiful Rococo Period painting which shows Angelica and Medoro, which were two popular characters for Romantic painters from the 16th up until the 19th century; that were derived from the Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
In the epic Angelica is an Asian Princess at the court of Charlemagne [(Charles The Great, April 02, 0742 – Hanuere 28, 0814) – King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Romans from 800.]; who falls in love with the Saracen Knight Medoro, and elopes with him to China.
In this presentation Angelica and Medoro are in a forest with three cherubs. Angelica is partially clothed in white, pink and blue fabric; white Medoro is partially clothed in a leopards skin.
Angelica is sitting on a velvet emerald green tubular pillow that has beside it a red and gold quiver with arrows and Medoro is holding a lance in his left hand off to his left side, while he picks red and white roses with his right had for Angelica.
In the background among the trees is one cherub holding a lighted torch looking farther off into the forest; while the other one below him has his left arm on Medoro’s right arm; with his right arm outstretched as if indicating which roses to pick.
The third cherub is by the legs of Angelica and he is carrying a laurel leaf wreath as he floats on the clouds that are blanketing the forest floor.
He toi matihiko tenei kua whakahouhia e nga rangatira tawhito te whakaputanga o te ahua rohe whanui.
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He tangata no Paris, He tama a Boucher na tetahi kaitoi rongonui a Nicolas Boucher, nana i tuku tana whakangungu toi tuatahi ki a ia. I te tekau ma whitu o ona tau, he peita na Boucher i whakamihia e te kaipeita a François Lemoyne. I muri mai ka tohua e Lemoyne a Boucher hei tauira mona, engari i muri i nga marama e toru anake, i haere ia ki te mahi mo te kai whakairo a Jean-François Cars.
I roto 1720, i toa ia i te Grand Prix de Rome mo te peita, engari kaore i whai waahi nui ki te ako i Itari tae noa ki te rima tau i muri mai, na nga raruraru putea i te Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.[1] I tana hokinga mai i te ako i Itari ka uru ia ki te Académie de peinture et de sculpture on 24 Noema 1731. Ko tana wahi manaaki (wahi powhiri) ko tana Rinaldo me Armida o 1734.
I moe a Boucher i a Marie-Jeanne Buzeau 1733. Tokotoru nga tamariki a te tokorua nei. I noho a Boucher hei mema kaiako i roto 1734 me te tere haere o ana mahi mai i tenei wa i whakanekehia ana ia hei Ahorangi i muri mai hei Reiki mo te Whare Wananga, ka noho hei kaitirotiro i te Royal Gobelins Manufactory ka mutu ko te Pirimia Peintre du Roi (Kaipeita Tuatahi o te Kingi) i roto 1765. Whakaahua o Marie-Louise O'Murphy c. 1752
I mate a Boucher 30 Mei 1770 i tona whenua i Paris. Tona ingoa, me tera o tana kai-whakahaere a Madame de Pompadour, kua rite ki te ahua French Rococo, te arahi i nga teina o Goncourt ki te tuhi: “Ko Boucher tetahi o nga tangata e tohu ana i te reka o te rau tau, ko wai e whakapuaki, whakawhaiaro me te whakatinana.”
He rongonui a Boucher mo te kii ko te natura “he kakariki rawa, he iti te rama” (he kakariki rawa, he kino te rama).
I hono a Boucher ki te kaiwhakairo kohatu kohatu a Jacques Guay, nana i ako ki te tuhi. I whakaakona ano e ia te kaipeita Moravian-Austrian Martin Ferdinand Quadal me te kaipeita neoclassical Jacques-Louis David i 1767.[4] I muri mai, I mahia e Boucher he raupapa o nga mahi a Guay i whakairohia e Madame de Pompadour ka tohatohahia hei pukapuka tino pai ki nga rangatira rangatira.
