Last week, my friend Mary and I visited the Newcomb Gallery on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans. The nearly 90 piece exhibit is entitled "Early Modern Faces European Portraits 1480-1780." This period of Renaissance and Baroque painting included many portraits commissioned by churches, royals, and wealthy bankers and merchants. The program states "there is always a fundamental tension between the drive to record the actual person's appearance and the desire to document a social, historical, or ideal persona." Of course if you were paying an artist to paint yourself or a member of your family...you would go for the ideal persona.
Here are some of my favorites:
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| "The Bagpipe Player," 1624 from the Workshop of Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch, 1588-1629 |
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| "Self-Portrait," 1711 by Nicolas de Largillere, French, 1656-1746 |
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| "Saint Paul Writing His Epistles," 1618-1620 by Valentin de Boulogne, French, 1590-1632 |
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| "Pope Gregory The Great," by Circle of Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian, 1581-1647 |
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| "The Mocking of Christ," 1585-1590 by Jacopo Tintoretto |
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| "Saint Sebastian," 1615-1620 by Simon Vouet, French, 1590-1649 |
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| "Portrait of Antoine Triest, Bishop of Ghent, 1627 by Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599-1641 |
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| "Louis XIV of France," 1670 by Claude Lefebvre, French, 1632-1675 |
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| "Henry VIII, Mary I, and Will Sommers The Jester" 1504-1503 by The English School |
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| "Merry Company," 1630 by Dirck Hals, Dutch, 1591-1656 |
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| "Portrait of a Woman As Saint Agnes," by Paolo Veronese, Italian, 1528-1588 |
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| "Portrait of a Lady, Sometimes Called Cecilia Gallerani," 1518-1520 by Bartolomeo Veneto, Italian, 1502-1546 |
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| "A Young Woman Playing a Lute, 1570 by Parrasio Micheli, Italian, 1516-1578 |
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