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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of woman in fur-trimmed dress before 1747 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of young woman 1720s pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Venetian portraitist Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) became famous throughout Europe for her deliciously misty and vague pastel portraits. The technique derived from portrait miniatures – delicate watercolors on vellum or ivory – but its rococo charm in Carriera's hands created a vogue for these larger pastels on paper, especially in France, that endured through the end of the century.
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait study of young woman before 1747 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait study of young woman before 1747 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Head of woman with dark hair 1730s pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalbe Carriera Head of woman with fair hair 1730s pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
"Art may be a precursor of changes not yet fully felt, or witness to states either excluded from the frame of hegemonic discourse or still a faint murmur in the heart of everyday life. An art which seeks to heighten our senses to the proximity of the marvelous, to find significance in commonplace signs, to connect one level of subjectivity with another, is a practice which inevitably fans the embers of theory and politics."
– Nikos Papastergiadis, from Everything that Surrounds (11th Biennale of Sydney, 1998)
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait study - child ca. 1720 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait study - child ca. 1720 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Four Seasons - Spring ca. 1725 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Four Seasons - Summer ca. 1725 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Four Seasons - Autumn ca. 1725 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Four Seasons - Winter ca. 1725 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Diana ca. 1740-45 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rosalba Carriera Apollo ca. 1740-45 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |