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Threading Beads - John William Godward - Refined Canvas Wall Art brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This fine art oil painting is a 100% hand painted oil painting on canvas, created for buyers who want genuine refined canvas wall art instead of a mass-produced poster or paper print.
1905
Oil on canvas
A dark-haired Roman beauty, clad in pink and maroon, examines a string of beads, to decide which color should go next. The pampered maiden with her jewel box has few cares, aside from the pleasant choice of adornment to grace her fair and sensuous figure. Godward’s idyllic view gladdens the eye: the feminine comeliness, gorgeous marble and glistening irises each lend beauty to the scene.
In a marble wall niche in the background, Godward has included a well-known bronze statuette found in Nocera, Umbria, and now in the Museo Nazionale in Naples. This work and other archeological finds fascinated many artists of the day, and this and other sculptures can be found in other Godward compositions as well as those of contemporary painters of classically themed subjects, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The Roman marble column at right was found in Pompeii. The column terminal is made up of two Dionysiac herm heads facing in opposite directions; the head featured is of a maenad wearing a wreath of ivy leaves, the one on the other side is that of an old satyr. In a Roman garden such a column would not have been placed against a wall because one would not have been able to see both sides, but Godward chooses the lovely maenad, presumably to reinforce the beauty of his main subject.
The fine art subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of refined oil painting wall decor.
Materials matter for refined wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this refined oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
| Size | Price |
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| 30 X 40 in | $234.98 |
| 36 X 48 in | $318.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $606.98 |
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Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
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