Portrait painting is a very powerful way to express your feelings and can be effectively used to represent the artistic vision on a piece of paper. Portrait painting reviews define how beautifully and artistically the painter has poured his heart in making the painting. More the reviews, powerful becomes the presence of the one who has painted it.
2. Portrait of Madame Recamier
Portrait of Madame Recamier is an 1800 portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Recamier by
Jacques Louis David. This portrait shows Juliette Recamier sitting on a style sofa in a simple
DRESS with bare arms. This painting steeped in neoclassical fashion is now located at Louvre in
France.
3. Mona Lisa – Leonardo da Vinci
The most famous painting in the world is
the main attraction of the Louvre
museum in Paris, where it is seen by six
million people every year. Leonardo da
Vinci painted it from the year 1503 or
1504 till shortly before he died in 1519.
The painting is a portrait of Lisa
Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del
Giocondo, and is in oil on a white
Lombardy poplar panel.
4. Girl With A PEARL EARRING
This beautiful painting by the
Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer,
a girl with an exotic DRESS, an
oriental turban and a large pearl
EARRING. The painting was
completed around 1665 and is
on display in the Mauritshuis
Gallery in the Hague, the
Netherlands.
5. The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli is a painting that depicts the emergence of
Goddess Venus from the sea as a beautiful woman. The most striking part of this simple
painting is the beautiful face of Goddess Venus and her shy posture. It is currently housed
in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.
6. Massacre of the Innocents
Based on the biblical massacre of
innocents in Bethlehem, this painting by
Peter Paul Rubens strikes a chilling
note in the minds of viewers.
The Massacre of the Innocents is the
biblical account of infanticide by Herod
the Great, the Roman-appointed King of
the Jews. According to the Gospel of
Matthew, Herod ordered the execution
of all young male children in the vicinity
of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of
his throne to a newborn King of the
Jews whose birth had been announced
to him by the Magi.
7. Whistler’s Mother
Also known as “Arrangement in Grey
and Black. The Artist’s Mother,” it is
one of the most famous painting by
American artist James McNeill
Whistler. In this painting, Whistler
depicts his mother sitting on a CHAIR
against a grey wall. This painting is
so called because the artist has used
only black and grey shades in this
painting.
8. La Moulin de la Galette
The name of this painting translates to “Pastry Chef” and is a vivid description of a city
life. This painting by Renoir is also one of the most expensive paintings ever bought.
9. Water Lilies
Water lilies, painted by Claude Monet, is a series of 250 oil paintings based on his own
flower garden. These paintings are located in different art museums world over.
10. Starry Night
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh shows the village of Saint-Remy under a swirling sun. It
is one of the most well-known images in modern culture and is currently housed in the
Museum of Modern Art in New York.