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Location: Ottawa, ON
Country: CA
Chasing Judith ~ Finding Caravaggio
I first glimpsed her in a photo of the hallway of the Princess Margaret Oakville Showhome 2015 . I thought she was stunning. Imagine having a home where she is one of the first things you see coming through the door.
Unlikely to happen for me in real life but more than feasible in Second Life!
Through the magic of 3D Architecture, I too could (virtually) enjoy this fabulous Living/Dining Room as designed by Brian Gluckstein.
First order of business, track down that inspirational piece of art.
I thought it would be easy but then I saw it described as "Stock Photo" in the Source Guide. "Stock Photo" my eye! Apparently my search was going to be a bit more challenging.
Time to use some Google-fu.
My initial search for "woman orange classic painting" turned up a number of likely candidates including The Lute Player by Orazio Gentileschi . I'm no art expert but it seemed to me that I was going in the right direction as far as style & colour were concerned.
I also remembered Orazio was one of the Italian painters influenced by Caravaggio and I had been fortunate enough to actually see some of his work displayed at the National Gallery of Canada in the exhibit Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome .
One of my favourite characters...... but probably really biased about it because we have the same name. And now that you mention it I will go and put up a picture of her in my sky box ^^ ty for the idea
YVW Sophie! She does have an amazing story.
Which picture of her are you going to use? Are you going to cut out the head?
Inquiring minds want to know
There is a picture of her that hangs in the Capitol Museum in Rome. I think I will use that (once I figure out which one it is...).
Sounds great, Sophie. Please post a picture when you've found her
Your post reminds me of a too-frequent challenge when surveying art in Second Life: all those people who upload masterworks without taking the trouble to note anything about provenance in the object titles and descriptions. We should all remember that someone did create these wonders, and even though the wonders in question are old enough to have entered the Commons, the works and their creators deserve to have their names recorded for everyone's education. I also like to record current locations of works that I upload, in the hope that someone will be motivated in their real lives to visit the Met or Tate or Prado or whatever that location may be.
In fact this is one of the main reasons that I started to upload art for myself: I felt irresponsible when I hung a work purchased in SL without giving the artist due credit, and without giving viewers the chance to find out what was was and where it came from. (Since then, pursuing, learning about and acquiring the art has just become an addiction!)