| cast: | Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Philip Jackson, Dermot Crowley, Kiruna Stamell, Liya Kebede | | actors in scene: | Geoffrey Rush, Sylvia Hoeks | | country (movie): | Italy | | genres: | crime, melodrama | | director: | Giuseppe Tornatore | | writers: | Giuseppe Tornatore | | time of scene: | 00:48:08 | | release year: | 2013 |
| | painting title: | Portrait of Minerva Anguissola | | author: | Sofonisba Anguissola | | style: | Mannerism | | size: | medium | | artist's country: | Italy | | room: | salon, other | | room colors: | multicolored | | theme: | portrait | | color: | white, brown, black, creamy |
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additional description: The portrait hangs in the Virgil's secret salon. We can see it during his phonecall with Claire.Although Anguissola enjoyed significantly more encouragement and support than the average woman of her day, her social class did not allow her to transcend the constraints of her sex. Without the possibility of studying anatomy or drawing from life (it was considered unacceptable for a lady to view nudes), she could not undertake the complex multi-figure compositions required for large-scale religious or history paintings. Instead, she experimented with new styles of portraiture, setting subjects informally. Self-portraits and family members were her most frequent subjects, as seen in such paintings as Self-Portrait (1554, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna) or The Chess Game. Read more: S.Anguissola wikipedia site . |
