All my students enjoyed this lessonAs a group we discussed the artist and had a practical session painting faces - some students used clay. All of my students enjoyed this lesson.Book Club Leader
![Album 1 The first collection of paintings from the National Gallery, Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyck, 1434, oil on oak. Portrait of a wealthy couple holding hands in their bedchamber. The man on the left wears a long black gown and large brimmed top hat the lady on the right wears a fine green gown and frilled white veil. A small dog stands by her feet.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_300,h_230/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Album-1-The-First-Collection-of-Paintings-from-The-National-Gallery-Arnolfini-Marriage-300x230.jpg)
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Three mysterious women and they all have a secret – can you discover what they were hiding? Play detective and delve deeper into the paintings.
The lady is a young Spanish beauty, enveloped in a luxurious fur stole. Her portrait is a half-length one; her body is slightly inclined towards the left-hand side of the picture and her head is very slightly turned to the left. She looks towards the viewer with a pair of strikingly large, black and lively eyes. Round her head she wears a silk headscarf which also wraps around her throat and covers the upper part of her chest. Her fur covers the rest of her body apart from her hand which appears from between the stole where the two sides of it meet, and seems to be caressing the soft fur. Round her wrist is a deep, lace cuff, reddish brown in colour. On her fourth finger is a ring with an amber stone.
Her figure is posed before a brown background, so dark that it's almost black. The colours El Greco has used are a symphony of creamy white, beige, umber and dark, dark brown. This enhances the rosy red of her lips and the flush of pink on her cheeks.
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Lady in a Fur Wrap by El Greco
A Bar at the Folies Bergere by Edouard Manet
All my students enjoyed this lessonAs a group we discussed the artist and had a practical session painting faces - some students used clay. All of my students enjoyed this lesson.Book Club Leader
One of the bestThis album was very informative and thoroughly enjoyed by the whole group. We discussed the 3 different women in the album and reminisced. We would have liked some larger images other than the post cards.Library Member
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