Alolika Roy
Art Researcher
About the Researcher
I love to learn about new cultures that help us to become more anthroprofagic !
17th Century • Dutch Golden Age • Netherlands
Landscape with Elisha Mocked
Research based on 4 sources
17th Century • Dutch Golden Age • Netherlands
Village Kermesse
Research based on 2 sources
15th Century • Early Netherlandish • Netherlands
Nativity of the night
Research based on 2 sources
The Vision of Saint Jerome
*The Vision of Saint Jerome* (1526–1527) is a masterpiece by the Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino, housed in the National Gallery, London. The artwork depicts the saint reclining in a dark, rocky landscape, surrounded by his traditional iconographic attributes: a resting lion, books of scholarship, and…
Plate of Figs
Giovanna Garzoni’s *Plate of Figs* is a masterful example of Italian Baroque still-life painting. Created by one of the few prominent female artists of the seventeenth century, this exquisite artwork showcases Garzoni’s signature technical precision and scientific detail. The composition centers on a mound of…
The Wedding at Cana
The art work showcases the detailed digital documentation of Paolo Veronese’s masterpiece, *The Wedding at Cana*. As displayed in the app interface, this legendary Italian Mannerist and Renaissance painting illustrates the biblical narrative where Jesus Christ performs his first miracle, turning water into wine. Veronese…
Garland of Flowers with a Landscape
Juan de Arellano’s Garland of Flowers with a Landscape is a brilliant subversion of the traditional Flemish 'garland painting' genre. By replacing the typical central religious figures with an empty, airy landscape, the artwork shifts its focus from explicit theological devotion to a broader meditation…
Babhruvahana greets Arjuna
The painting illustrates a critical event from the Ashvamedhika Parva (Book of the Horse Sacrifice). Following the Kurukshetra War, the Pandavas release a sacrificial horse to assert their sovereignty, with Arjuna tracking its path. When the horse enters the kingdom of Manipura, it is met…
Baekimdang Pungsok Hwacheop (Album of Genre Paintings by Baekimdang)
The painting is showing a mother and a child and a stranger. This is a.painting of love that we generally ignore in every day life. The water colour that suits the epoch of the korean course painting makes the love more visible and simple as…
Muhammad Hasan Afshar- Self portrait
This is a self portrait and the person in the painting is sketching himself plus looking at the painter. This painting looks like a multiverse of gazes which look for artistic perfection. The expression of the painter is pristine
Tissarakshita, Queen of Asoka
It is an Bengal renaissance art work showcasing the Bengal art circle of santiniketan. The tagoreian style that made the painting vastly Indian and egalitarian and intricately decorative both at the same time
Darbar of Alivardi Khan at Murshidabad's Court
The artwork is reflective of the mughal period and the Nawab culture of India. The lavish colouring and characteristics of the painting is representation of the valour and maximal beauty they focused on
Judith Beheading Holofernes
The painting shows the Rococo rage and influences of Goya from the Spanish violence period after war. The female rage and the blood working as a motif for suppressed emotions and heightened effect
Lifting an Elephant Single-Handed, Farrukh-Nizhad so Astonishes Two Brothers That They Convert to Islam
This looks like a show of power and chivalry of the epoch. The artistic expression is an influence of the shahnameh as an epic tradition which shows the Parsi roots.
Self-Portrait and Portrait of Pyotr Konchalovsky
The artwork is intimately raw because both Konchalovsky and Mashkov are artists nude surrounded by their influences and instrument through which they bring art in to the world. It was a a conscious choice to keep them naked to materialise the vulnerability both of them…
