A lighter look at kisses in paintings, as all of us remember our first kiss.

1. Kisses in
Paintings
A history of affection
First created 25 Jun 2020. Version 1.0 - 15 Jal 2020. Daperro. London.

2. Ancient Egypt 1956 BC

3. Ancient Rome 50 AD
Different types of Ancient
Roman kisses
Parent to children – osculum.
Husband & wife – basium.
Client & prostitute – savium.

4. Rome 4C AD

5. Fra Angelico 1431
Fra Angelico used simple
and direct styles based on
Giotto and Masaccio. It ran
counter to the Florentine
paintings by Fra Filippo
Lippi.

6. Fra Angelico 1431
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7. Fra Angelico 1432

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Fra Angelico 1432

9. Hieronymus Borsh 1480

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Hieronymus Borsh 1480

11. Leonardo Workshop 1508
The Greek god Zeus
turned himself into a
swan to seduces Leda.

12. Raphael 1516

13. Cranach 1520
Cranach painted
several painting on the
same theme.
During the Reformation,
women were seen as a
source of sin, humiliation
and perdition.

14. Bronzino 1540

15. Carracci 1567

16. Carracci 1567

17. Veronese 1585

18. Caravaggio 1602

19. Rubens 1600

20. Rubens 1614

21. Rubens 1614

22. Boucher 1735
Rubens was a successful
Flemish diplomat and painter.
Early in his career, he went to
Italy to study and became a
court painter at the court of the
Duke of Mantua. His paintings
are often dramatic and
passionate.
Van Dyck was one of his
assistance.

23. Boucher 1735

24. Fragonard 1755

25. Fragonard 1785

26. Canova 1793

27. Canova 1793

28. Utamaro 1788

29. Gerard 1798

30. Gerard 1798
Francois Gerard was a baron. Though David’s
influence he got a position as judge on the
Revolutionary tribunal, during the French
Revolution. It was Gerard who suggested to
David that in his huge Coronation of Napoleon
the Emperor should crown Josephine rather tha
himself.
On of the painting
.from his workshop.

31. Bouguereau 1851

32. Bouguereau 1889
Bouguereau a representative
and champion of entrenched
academicism.
He was admired in his
lifetime, for figures – mainly
female – of unreal perfection
and coyness on religious as
well as mythological subjects.

33. Leighten 1856

34. Hayez 1859

35. Gerome 1890

36. Rosetti 1867

37. Toulouse-Lautre 1892

38. Toulouse-Lautre 1892
Toulouse-Lautrec made his first
colour print in 1892. He executed a
large number of posters in
lithography, with masterly handling
of highly simplified line, large areas
of flat colour and a unique
concentration on the eye-catching
quality of the design.
He also made small lithographs
either for menu heads, programmes,
book-covers and the like or single
prints.

39. Rodin 1901
Rodin made many versions of the
same sculpture. He “employed
assistant sculptors to copy a smaller
model made from a material when
was easier to work than marble.
Once they had finished, Rodin himself
would put the finishing toues to the
larger version.” Wikipedia.

40. Rodin 1901

41. Rodin 1901

42. Alma-Tadema 1906

43. Klimit 1907

44. Magritte 1928

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