Angelica Kauffmann, Aemilius Paullus and his family (1783) by Angelica Kauffmann; Angelica Kauffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The reason is logical: Michelangelo was a sculptor. The separation between the tactile and the visual is broken down; the artist sees and draws in three dimensions. “Michelangelo [understood] that a particular muscle is egglike in character, and he [would go] after that shape with his chalk,” says Rubenstein, pointing out that the marks on his drawings increasingly hone in on more finished areas of the form in a manner that parallels the chisel lines on an unfinished sculpture. The artist placed rough hatches in some places, more carefully defining crosshatching in others, and polished tone in the most finished areas. Michelangelo Buonarotti Head of a Young Man (?) by Michelangelo, ca. 1516, red chalk, 8 x 6 1/2. Collection Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. “This drawing suggests the influence of Leonardo,” says Rubenstein. “It’s more tonal and delicate than many of his other drawings.” Different papers give different effects. The paper used for these drawings was Coquille Board, a grainy paper meant for this kind of reproduction.” In comparison to his numerous paintings on religious subjects, Ribera painted few classical or mythological works. Representing a tenth of his entire graphic output, his drawings on such themes include figure studies and rapid compositional sketches in addition to one of his masterpieces, Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes. Some of these sheets can be associated with the large-format paintings on the history of ancient Rome commissioned from a number of artists in Italy in the 1630s for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. The Triumph of Bacchus or Theoxenia, of which two fragments are in the Prado (on display here), may have been one of these paintings.

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The Holy Family With St. John the Baptist by Charles Le Brun, ca. 1648–1650, red chalk with stylus outline, 12 1/4 x 10 1/2. Prat Collection, Paris, France. Get started by enrolling in my courses, learning new skills and knowledge, and asking me questions in the courses and forums. It seems that if you surrender sufficiently to allow a simple pattern to imprint itself on your mind, an inordinate gift will blossom. At least, that is the promise of mastery. Commit to the tilts or the finger patterns – or for that matter to being the noodle – and you’ll achieve something that, if not exactly mastery, is at least an actual accomplishment, a happy patch, a bit of software that you had never had before. Having it now, however poorly you install it, makes yours an expanded and extended mind and body, a significantly different self than the one you were assigned at birth. Repetition and perseverance and a comical degree of commitment – simply the commitment both to recognise the absurdity of your effort and the sincerity of its goal – are disproportionately rewarded in the real world o Besides relevant marketplace experience, I also have a B.A. in Communication from Southeastern University, an M.A. in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, and a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. My Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the mythic branding of Apple's Macintosh/Mac in their primary commercial campaigns (1984, Think Different, Switch/Real People, and Get a Mac). Example graduate courses such as Creative Approaches to Digital Media and Visual Storytelling have helped me when developing my own courses. Eitel-Porter concurs, “His use of unnatural colors and his gestural application of paint, with visible strokes to emphasize expression, sets Schiele apart.”

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One of Kauffmann’s most famous drawings is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and showcases her hand at portraiture with a Portrait of Emma Hamilton (1791). The portrait was created in light of the sitter’s rise to fame after her marriage to the British envoy to Naples, Sir William Hamilton. Emma’s beauty was admired by many but she was also a mimetic performance artist in her own right, having developed her own series of “attitudes”, which were performances of classical figures for Hamilton’s guests. At the time, she was Hamilton’s mistress-turned-wife, which was a rare occasion at the time. Egon Schiele Fighter by Egon Schiele, 1913, gouache and graphite, 19 1/4 x 12 5/8. Private collection. Compare this image to Le Brun’s Study for Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna. In the Le Brun, the subject is carrying something. In Schiele, the load is implied—or inside. “This is very introspective,” says Rubenstein. “The coiled-up tension, the head wrenched around to look right at you, the elongated torso. He looks feral.”