Showing posts with label Cabanel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cabanel. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Diabolic Cleopatra
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887) by the French academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).
Cleopatra is depicted as a beautiful but also a cold and cruel monarch. Without any emotions she’s watching the terrible death of the prisoners. The temples in the back are showing the strong influence of the famous prints of David Roberts.
Cleopatra is depicted as a beautiful but also a cold and cruel monarch. Without any emotions she’s watching the terrible death of the prisoners. The temples in the back are showing the strong influence of the famous prints of David Roberts.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
A Tired Femme Fatale
Albayde (1848) by the French painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889).
It's a nearly perfect drawn picture. The name is taken from Orientalist poem and refers to an odalisque. Cabanel shows this lethargic and content figure as an object of visual pleasure.
She is lazy, seductive but also dangerous, she's a real femme fatale.
It's a nearly perfect drawn picture. The name is taken from Orientalist poem and refers to an odalisque. Cabanel shows this lethargic and content figure as an object of visual pleasure.She is lazy, seductive but also dangerous, she's a real femme fatale.
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