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Aristova Maria- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 100 cm
- Year
- 2016
A woman in a strapless white gown and gold masquerade mask lifts an ornate handbag before Venice's colonnaded palace, reflected in canal water.
- Style
- Decorative
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Figurative · Women · Architecture
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About this work
A woman in a strapless white gown and long white gloves stands in profile, one hand raising a small gold mask to her eyes while the other holds an ornate gold clutch bag. Beside her, the pointed Gothic arcades and domed skyline of a Venetian palace recede into the distance, the whole facade mirrored upside down in still water below.
The palette is limited to sepia, cream, and gold, with the figure's pale skin and white dress set against a warm, aged ground. Heavy impasto and gilded texture evoke weathered stucco, while the flattened, elongated figure gives the portrait a stylized, decorative quality; the masked gaze creates a secretive, mysterious mood.
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