Marchesa Marianna Florenzi
Marchesa Marianna Florenzi (1802 – 1870) c1824 by German Painter Heinrich Maria von Hess (1798 – 1863); a member of the Nazarene Movement and primarily a painter of religious and mythological subjects.
Dette portrett of Marchesa Marianna Florenzi shows her at the age of 22, sitting in alcove of a large garden, surrounded by circular blueish-green marble columns and off white rectangular columns that form a wall behind her.
She is sitting on a cushioned stone bench, wearing a full length red coat with black buttons on the far outside, that is trimmed with blue fur accents along the collar, skuldre, wrist and bottom; and an orange belt with a diamond rectangular buckle that keeps the coat closed.
Beneath the coat we can see a full length white dress that is ruffled in three layers below the knee, and that she is wearing white stockings and black leather shoes.
While in her left hand that has a gold ring on her fourth finger she is holding a pink and violet flower, and with her right hand that has green gemstone and gold ring on her fourth finger she is holding on to a bone white hat with feathers on the side and a lace ribbon across the top that also forms a chin strap.
To her left is a very large potted vase that rest on a beautiful tiled floor, that has two large pink ball flowers growing from the soil in it; and to her right is the pathway that opens on to a garden with a large functional water fountain, trees that have been trimmed to form an arch for a beautiful view from the balcony that overlooks the city in the far distance.
Marchesa Marianna Florenzi is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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Ludwig var sønn av klassisisten (klassisk studie av antikken) og philhellene (intellektuell bevegelse for beundring av Hellas ved begynnelsen av 1800-tallet) Friedrich Thiersch, som ble født i München Tyskland i 1825.
Han hadde to eldre brødre; den ene var kirurgen Karl Thiersch (1822 – 1895) og den andre var teologen H. W. J. Thiersch (1817 – 1885).
Ludwig begynte er kunstnerisk utdanning som deltaker ved Kunstakademiet i München, studerer skulptur; men etter noen år gikk over til å male og ble elev av tre tyske malere; Heinrich Maria von Hess (1798 – 1863) av Nazarene-bevegelsen (en tysk romantisk bevegelse som hadde som mål å gjenopplive spiritualitet i kunsten); Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794 – 1872 ), først og fremst en maler av bibelske emner, og Karl Schorn (1803 – 1850), i tillegg til maler var han også sjakkmester.
Etter fullførte studier ved Kunstakademiet 1848, han malte bitene Sakuntala (er kona til Dushyanta og moren til keiser Bharata), og en scene av Camissards (were Huguenots or French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. n the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV’s Edict of Fontainebleau, making Protestantism illegal.)
On the completion of these works he then ventured off to Rome, Italia; where he sketched scenes of the daily lives of the Italian people and painted the piece Hiob unter seinen Freunden (Job among his friends ).
I 1852 he made he traveled to Athens, Greece with his father, where he replaced Italian Painter, Physician and amateur Archaeologist Rafaello Ceccoli (1800 – 1850); at the Athens School of Fine Arts; becoming interested in Byzantine Art.
During this from 1852 – 1855 Ludwig ville male flere fresker i greske kirker og var et ledende medlem av bevegelsen for å modernisere bysantinsk kunst ved å introdusere vestlige elementer, som naturalistisk perspektiv og anatomi; som møtte hard gresk motstand fra de som så slike reformer som et middel til å erstatte langvarige greske tradisjoner med utenlandske..
Gjennom resten av livet reiste Ludwig til forskjellige byer og malte for lånetakerne og laget fresker for kirker, which was particularly notable along with the work done by Italian Painter Ludwig Seitz (1844 – 1908) og franske Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809 – 1864); han anses å ha ledet vekkelsen i vesteuropeisk kirkekunst.