Throughout the ages of human art, women have been the inspiration and subject of so much of humanity's creative expression. The beauty, grace and mystery of the feminine form has lent itself to countless hours spent in imaging it in stone and paint. With the coming of the technological age of computers this has taken new and innovative expression in the video media.
Utilizing ninety of the Western world's classic examples of feminine portraiture, Philip Scott Johnson has used the power of morphing and animation to blend five hundred years of masterpiece paintings into an almost seamless example of the changes in artistic style over the past centuries as set against the timeless beauty of women.
Nominated as the Most Creative Video in the 2007 YouTube Awards his video is overlaid with Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 as performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Relax and enjoy this unique presentation of the finest in human art.
A list of the paintings used to create this video.
Archangel (Angel of the Golden Locks) - Novgorod School, Russia late 12th century La Scapigliata (The Lady of the Dishevelled Hair) - Leonardo da Vinci 1508 The Madonna of the Carnation - Leonardo da Vinci 1478-80 Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) - Leonardo da Vinci 1503-05 Lady with a Unicorn - Raphael c. 1505 The Birth of Venus - Sandro Botticelli 1485 Portrait of a Young Woman - Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1536 Portrait of a Lady as St. Lucy - Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio 1500 Sacred Conversation - Giovanni Bellini 1490 Profane Love (Vanity) - Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1514-1515 Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) c. 1515 Mary Magdalene - Pietro Perugino 1500 Portrait of Ginevra de Benci - Leonardo da Vinci 1476 Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani ) - Leonardo da Vinci 1483 - 1490 Virgin Annunciate (Maria der Verkundigung) - Antonello da Messina 1476 La Donna Velata (Woman with a Veil) - Raphael c.1514 Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman - Albrecht Durer 1505 Portrait of a Woman - Lucas Cranach the Elder 1526 Portrat der Maria Maddalena Portinari - Hans Memling 1470 Lais of Corinth - Hans Holbein the Younger 1526 Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher - Albrecht Durer 1499 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1775-76 Jane, Countess of Harrington - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1778 Mrs. John Hale - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1762-64 Mrs. Abington - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1764-1773 Charlotte-Aglae d'Orleans (Duchesse de Modene) - Pierre Gobert 1744 Portrait of Suzanna Huygens - Caspar Netscher 1667-69 The Marquise de Seignelay and Two of her Children - Pierre Mignard 1691 Madame Victoire de France - Jean-Marc Nattier 1748 Unknown Woman in a Blue Dress with Yellow Trimmings - Fyodor Rokotov 1760's Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat) - Peter Paul Rubens c. 1626 Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat - Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun 1782 Portrait of Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella - Peter Paul Rubensid 1620's Lady with a Flower in her Hair - El Greco c. 1590-1600 Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov - Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1864 Young Housewife - Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov 1840's Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina - Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky 1797 Portrait of V. S. Putyatina - Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov 1815-1816 Madame Pasteur - Antoine-Jean Gros 1795-96 Amalie von Schintling - Joseph Karl Stieler 1831 Portrait of M. A. Kikina - Orest Adamovich Kiprensky 1816 Woman with a Pearl - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot c. 1869 The Reading - Edouard Manet 1869 Berthe Morisot - Edouard Manet 1872 Charlotte Dubourg - Henri Fantin-Latour 1882 Portrait of an Italian Woman - Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov 1851 Princess Albert de Broglie - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1851-53 An Elegant Beauty - William Clark Wontner c. early 20th century Souvenir - William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1895 La Belle Liseuse (The Beautiful Reader) - Leon Francois Comerre 19th century Modesti - William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1902 Pavonia - Lord Frederick Leighton 1858-59 A Portrait of a Young Lady - Eugene de Blaas c. late 19th century Musette - Eugene de Blaas 1900 An Arab Beauty - Leon Francois Comerre c. late 19th century Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon) - Pierre Auguste Renoir 1885 Portrait of Madame Henriot - Pierre Auguste Renoir 1877 Two Sisters on the Terrace - Pierre Auguste Renoir 1881 Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary - Pierre Auguste Renoir 1878 La Chevelure (Young Woman Braiding Her Hair) - Pierre Auguste Renoir 1876 Blonde Nude - Pierre Auguste Renoir 1882 La Promenade - Edouard Manet c. 1880 Portrait of Maggie Wilson - Frank Duveneck 1898 Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge - Mary Cassatt 1879 Ideal Head - Julian Alden Weir c. late 19th century Portrait of a Woman - Paul Cesar Helleu 1909 Ols Maria - Anders Zorn 1918 The Artist - Alphonse Maria Mucha 1920 The Matyr of the Solway - John Everett Millais 1871 Madeleine Bernard - Paul Gauguin 1888 Woman with a Hat - Henri Matisse 1905 Madras Rouge - Henri Matisse 1907 Cocolo - Francis Picabia 1936-38 Ritratto di Signora di Klimt - Gustav Klimt 1916-17 La fleur (serigraph) - Henri Matisse 1937 Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya, the Artist's Secretary - Henri Matisse 1947 The Mask - Louis Welden Hawkins 1905 Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) - Rene Magritte 1946 F. Champenois - Alphonse Maria Mucha 1897 Cycles Perfecta - Alphonse Maria Mucha 1902 Raphaelesque Head Exploding - Salvador Dali 1951 Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat - Salvador Dali 1954 Apparition of a Face with a Fruit Dish on a Beach - Salvador Dali 1938 Woman Torso - Kazimir Malevich 1928-1932 American Beauty (The Movie Star) - Knud Merrild 1928 Portrait of Lunia Czechowska - Amedeo Modigliani 1919 Tumblers (Mother and Son) - Pablo Picasso 1905 Maternity - Pablo Picasso 1905 Nude Woman In A Red Armchair - Pablo Picasso 1932 Portrait of Francoise - Pablo Picasso 1946
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