Dean Brown: Salon from The Incomplete History of Art

Shadow, 6.d: Something of opposite character that necessarily accompanies or follows something else, as shadow does light.
e: An imitation, copy; a counterpart.–OED

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Raphael: The School of Athens Oskar Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, 1857

Exhibit 0:
OJ Rejlander's Early Composite

 

JAD Ingres:Mme Senonnes, 1814, Mus\xe9e des Beaux Arts, Nantes

JAD Ingres: Madame Rivière, 1805, Louvre

JAD Ingres: Madame Moitesser

 Cindy Sherman: Untitled #204

Exhibit One:
Cindy Sherman as Elegant Lady

Identifications by Rosalind Kraus, Cindy Sherman, Rizzoli, New York, 1993.

 

Raphael: La Fornarina JAD Ingres: Raphael and the Fornarina, 1814, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Cindy Sherman: Untitled #205

Joan Miro: La Fornarina (after Raphael)--'a black velvet mountain bears at its summit an enormous bust with breasts, arms, shoulders in a single mass, a mouth like a red boat, a perfect sphere from which escapes a fish-shaped eye, and all topped by a chocolate coiffure, hair and feather admixed. A fabulous form cut out against a night-blue ground, it transfixes ' --Guy Weelen, Miro, Harry N. Abrams, 2984

Exhibit Two: Cindy Sherman as Courtesan

Carlo Pederetti (Raphael, Giunti, 1989, p. 150) says the painting probably portrays the courtesan Beatrice the Farrrese, a favorite of Lorenzo di Piero di'Medici and not Raphael's mistress, despite her armband. Also, it is now attributed to Guilio Romano, not Raphael.

Ingres painted at least five versions of this idea. Here is another one

 

Titian: Venus di Urbino Joel-Peter Witkin: Amour

Exhibit Three: Venuses

Witkin's Amour has snapshot of Titian's Venus cradled by her right arm.
Antonio Canova: Paolina Borghese as Venus Joel-Peter Witkin: Canova's Venus, 1982

Canova's model is Paolina Borghese

Another view.
Edouard Manet: OlympiaBrown transformation Yasumoto Morimura: Futado, SFMOMA

Jeff Wall: Stereo, 1982

Victor Burgin: Olympia, 1982

 Note maneki, the Japanese welcome cat in Morimura's Futado (Twin) , also the servant. The fabric on the bed is a bridal kimono.

 

Rembrandt: Saskia as Flora) Joel-Peter Witkin: John Herring, P.W.A., Posed as Flora with Lover and Mother, 1992

Exhibit Four: Flora

John Herring, a florist, was dying of AIDS. He stands on a cloud.
Rembrandt: [Another] Flora Yasumasa Morimura: Untitled

Morimura expropriates this Flora with an air of Japanese stylization.
Joan Brown: Untitled

Not a photo, but Joan Brown captures the youth and innocence, almost puzzlement, of Rembrandt's 2nd Flora.
Caravaggio: Bacchus, 1596, Florence, Uffizi Gallery Joel-Peter Witkin: Portrait of Holocaust, 1982

Exhibit Five:
Bacchus
Cindy Sherman: Untitled #224

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