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therena ❀
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* Brazilian-American 🇧🇷
* Technical Art Historian, BA, MA, MLitt 👩🏻‍🎓
* Women’s history, pigment analysis, & Renaissance to Early Modern works 🎨
* Editor & Writer for The Colour Club 💌
* Portfolio: @therena.jpeg (instagram)
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I’ve started an Instagram account that highlights all the art I’ve seen since 2017, when I started my journey in art history!!! As well as my experiences in the art world & projects!!
Please go follow @therena.jpeg on Instagram 🩷 xx

#arthistory #portfolio
June 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Happy World Pigment Day! 22 March 2025
🤍💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️🩷
Check out @ worldpigmentday on Instagram!

#worldpigmentday #pigments #art #arthistory #colour
March 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Happy International Colour Day!!! 🤍💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️🩷🌈🎨

#InternationalColourDay #Art #Pigment #Color #Colour #ArtHistory
March 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Our Top Ten Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings Ranked
We look at the artist’s most important paintings and what makes them great.
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March 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Rachel Ruysch – The Flourishing Career of a Forgotten Old Master
by David Dallas
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Rachel Ruysch - The Flourishing Career of a Forgotten Old Master
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a renowned flower painter whose works sold for more than Rembrandt’s. Apprenticed at 15, she mastered naturalistic floral compositions. She later became Court Painter in ...
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March 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Representation in the #artworld matters — we need to try harder to uplift marginalized voices whilst making art education more accessible! Not everyone can afford to go to the next big exhibition in a big city that also costs an arm & a leg to visit either!
March 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d’Abernon by John Singer Sargent (American) - Oil on canvas / 1904 - Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #Sargent #JohnSingerSargent #artwork #fineart #portraitofawoman #style #BirminghamMuseumofArt #AmericanArt #womensart #AmericanArtist
American artist John Singer Sargent painted this portrait of Lady Helen Vincent in Venice, Italy. A glimpse of the Grand Canal is visible through the balustrade in the lower-left corner. He elongates Lady Helen’s limbs, underscoring her gracefulness, while the long black silk dress emphasizes her milk-white skin, a sign of her nobility. Her direct but pensive gaze suggests her intellect: she was a member of The Souls, a salon of prominent intellectuals that included Henry James and Edith Wharton. She is believed to have been the model for the characters of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm's story "Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton" (1919) and for Lady Irene Silvester in Maurice Baring's story "A Luncheon Party" (1925). Lady Helen was born into privilege at 20 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London, the daughter of William Duncombe and Mabel Violet Graham. She and her sister, Hermione, Duchess of Leinster, were renowned as leading beauties in their circle. Helen married Sir Edgar Vincent, then a governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Constantinople on September 24, 1890. Lady Helen, in that period, was "the most celebrated hostess of her age and was - by reason of her outstanding beauty, intelligence and charm - one of the most resplendent figures". Sargent was a preeminent American portraitist of the Gilded Age. With his brilliant bravura brushwork, flair for rich colors, and dramatic juxtaposition of light and dark tones, he made striking images of the American and European elite. Born to American parents in Italy, Sargent spent most of his life in Europe, where he traveled extensively, studying the work of the Old Masters. He greatly admired Diego Velázquez’s realism and Frans Hals’s painterly brush strokes, both of which he would incorporate into his own work.
March 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Personally, I love a painting within a painting 🥰

This detail of a stunning Brazilian painting found in the Pelotas Library was a beautiful hidden gem in my visit 🎨🖌️

What are some of your favorite “paintings within a painting”? 💫

#painting #arthistory #art #brazil #oilpainting #library #museum
March 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Found this gorgeous copy of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (translated to Portuguese) in the Pelotas #Library in #Brazil🌹

They had such a beautiful collection of vintage & antique books as well as contemporary works! I was in complete awe 🤩 wish I could have taken some home with me!! #history
March 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Visited the beautiful Pelotas Library 🌸

You never know what hidden gems you might find if you don’t take the time to explore 🌟✨
March 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Just signed up for a webinar with the Australian Institution of Conservation on International Colour Day, 21 March!! I’m so excited 🤩
March 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I thought this was a cute shirt at first glance, but it only got better upon closer inspection - I love it 🤣🫶🏻

I wonder which art collection this statue belongs to & in which Museum Gallery it’s displayed 🤔 hmmm

#ArtHistory #ArtJokes #ArtCollection #Museum #Art #ArtFinds
February 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Happy Valentine’s Day! 🎨💘✨💌

#HistoryofArt #ArtHumour #ArtJokes #ValentinesDay #BritishMusuem
February 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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One of my favorite things to do is sketch statues in museums & get an understanding of form & perspective! 💫

Here’s my sketch of a statue of a woman from the V&A, back when I was living in London 💌 x

(Hands are still a work-in-progress for me)

#Sketch #London #Statue #HistoryofArt #Drawing #Art
February 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘
Here’s a glimpse at a cataloguing & condition report project I did for the National Trust for Scotland, a 19th-century scrapbook owned by Miss Jane Nicholson, wife of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson✨Beautiful Victorian Valentines exhibiting true artistry, detail, & true love 💐💌
February 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Some of my favorite artworks by Bridget Riley CH CBE 💫

Enchant (2004); Vein (1984); High Sky (1991)
❤️💙🧡💜💚💛💗

#BridgetRiley #OpArt #VisualPerception #ColourTheory #WomenArtists #BritishArt
February 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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My latest article dives into the work of Bridget Riley 🎨✨ I explore how her use of colour and form transforms the act of looking into an immersive experience 💫 She encourages us to engage deeply with our senses and rethink how we see the world!
#BridgetRiley #VisualPerception #ColourTheory #OpArt
The Pulse of Colour: Bridget Riley & The Art of Looking — THE COLOUR CLUB
“If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it’s wanton behaviour…it is promiscuous like nothing.”  – Bridget Riley Colour is free, ...
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February 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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One of my friends sent me screenshots of sections of my article that she loved & it really touched my heart 🥹❤️ It’s so lovely being acknowledged for all the hard work you put into something, especially by the people you care about 🥰
January 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Font Vert (green ground), introduced in 1756, defined Sèvres porcelain's mid-18th century elegance. The c.1756 Pot à sucre Hébert’s vivid glaze embodies Rococo's nature-inspired opulence, showing how colour shaped design and taste. 🌿✨ #Rococo #Sèvres #ArtHistory #Porcelain #MadamedePompadour #Green
January 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Hues developed at Sèvres, such as Fond Vert and Pompadour Pink, became synonymous with Pompadour. These shades featured in both the manufactory’s creations and her renowned portraits, including the Munich Portrait (1756) and Madame de Pompadour at her Toilette (1750) by François Boucher💫 #ArtHistory
January 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Madame de Pompadour understood the power of colour 💖💚 Check out my new article for The Colour Club!

I would like to dedicate this work to the recently departed Dame Rosalind Savill who is an inspiration of mine in this field & who too loved Pompadour ❤️

#MadameDePompadour #ArtHistory #18thCentury
Madame de Pompadour: The Power of Colour in 18th-century France — THE COLOUR CLUB
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (1721-1764), popularly known as the marquise Madame de Pompadour, was a significant figure in the court of King Louis XV (1710-1774) as his maîtresse-en-titre , or royal mis...
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January 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Due to the holidays, the publication of my article was delayed BUT today is the day!!! Cannot wait to see the final product of my work on #MadamedePompadour 💗

#18thCentury #WomenInHistory #ArtHistory
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Excited to announce that next week I’ll be publishing an article on Madame de Pompadour! 🤩 She’s been a fascination of mine since my undergrad days, and it’s been hard not to turn this into another thesis! 😂 #MadamedePompadour #ArtHistory #18thCentury #WomenInHistory #WritingJourney
January 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Still Life with porcelain cup, vase of flowers and watch, 1780, by #CharlotteEustacheSophiedeFulignyDamas, #MarquisedeGrollier (French, 1741–1828), who was born #otd, Dec 21. Private collection; source, artherstory.net/charlotte-eu... #womenartists #artherstory
A still life painting depicting a cobalt blue vase containing a bouquet of flowers, including roses, hydrangeas, irises and other flowers, sitting on a stone ledge. The dominant flower colors are pink, white, and blue. To the viewer's left is a porcelain cup in a saucer; between the saucer and the vase sits a pocket watch, tipped against the edge of the ledge. To the viewer's right, under the cup's handle, is some kind of accessory with two brushes and some other ornaments linked together at the top and attached to a leather (?) strap.
December 21, 2024 at 3:35 PM