Giovanna Garzoni
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Giovanna Garzoni was an Italian Baroque painter. She began her career painting religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects but gained fame for her still life botanical subjects painted in temper
Giovanna Garzoni, self-portrait
Still Life with Bowl of Citrons, late 1640s, now in J. Paul Getty Museum.
Taffeta antependium embroidered in silk with flowers around central medallion of God in splendour, 1640–1650. Uffizi Gallery.
Plate with White Beans, ca. 1650–1662. Gouache on parchment. Galleria Paletina, Florence.
Gouache
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Gouache, body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent, and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Goua
Gouache paints come in many colors and are usually mixed with water to achieve the desired working properties and to control the opacity when dry.
Jacob Philipp Hackert, Lago d'Averno, 1794
12th-century Buddhist manuscript, India
Exeter and the Canal Basin by John Gendall between 1835 and 1840; watercolour and gouache on paper