Artwork
The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters is an oil painting by the High Renaissance artist Palma Vecchio. It dates from 1519 and is held in the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
About this work
Overview
The Three Sisters is a 1519 oil painting by Jacopo Palma, known as Palma Vecchio, a Venetian artist of the Italian High Renaissance. The work is part of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister collection.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts three women in Renaissance attire seated together in a landscape, each gazing in a different direction. The woman on the left engages the viewer directly, while the others look away.
Technique & Style
Executed in oil paint, the work showcases visible brushstrokes and texture, characteristic of Vecchio's style. The subjects' clothing and the distant landscape with hills and trees are rendered in a High Renaissance manner.
History & Provenance
Palma Vecchio, born Jacopo Palma, was a prominent Venetian painter. To distinguish him from his great-nephew, also a painter, he is referred to as 'il Vecchio'.
Artist & collection
Artist
Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), born Jacopo Palma, also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance. He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian…
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