Thanks...he will be 21 next 3rd December.
Too big to carry around...to young to not to cry when I have to stick a needle in his belly ...

Yeah... you guessed it... another painting. And this one also has a nice story behind it AND it's from my own country :cheers:
 
Catarina de Bragança was the daughter of D. Luísa de Gusmão and king D. João IV (1604-1656) of Portugal.
 
Charles II of England saw a portrait and liked her face and eyes. She had beautiful black hair and a sweet face.
 
For the marriage she embarqued the Royal Charles and arrived at Portsmouth with fever and a sore throat, and asked for tea. That request caused a grand turmoil, because tea was not known or used in the court.
 
She also introduced the use of porcelain plates, complaining that the meals always arrived cold because they were still served in gold and silver plates.:naughty:
 
New Amsterdam, founded by the Dutch in 1626, was conquered by the Duke of York, brother of Charles II and became New York in 1664. The surrounding areas were called King’s Country e Queens Country. Queens Country latter became the well known “Queens” area of New York.
 
Technical Details:
 
Dress mesh - Sussisogoodsims2 - Civil War
I'm giving you two links, because the site will be closed in the beginning of December
 
http://www.sussissogoodsims2.com/Victorian.html
 
http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=763187
 
Hope you enjoy the clothes...and the stories

Hi
 
guess what... another painting :lol:
 
Anne of Cleves, c1539 by Hans Holbein the Younger
 
It was on the basis of this portrait that Henry VIII chose her as his wife.
Holbein was clearly capable of much better work, and so the question must be - why did he produce such a lifeless portrait? Clearly, he was a court painter but he was also a diplomat.
 
He had very little time to produce the portrait and had to show his prepatory sketches and the finished work to the duke of Cleves and his courtiers. If he felt a lifelike portrait of Anne would be unflattering, he would have felt pressure to change it - hence, the anonymous portrait he did produce. But he was also forced to consider his role as court painter to Henry VIII.
 
Holbein knew that a misleading or false portrait would anger the English king. Forced into a diplomatic corner, the artist tactfully chose to create an unassuming portrait of a woman neither beautiful nor ugly, respectfully attired and with a modest gaze.
 
He hoped to offend no one - but, of course, Henry VIII felt terribly deceived and Holbein would receive no more important commissions from the king. :sign5:
 
 
TechicalDetails:
 
Costume Mesh: sim2-fashion.de http://www.sim2-fashion.de/datenbank/include.php?path=content/download.php&contentid=722
 
Hair Mesh: Hair PrincessLeia Remix - by the great Kavar
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=29177

wow...thanks do much !!!  I really appreciate your comments.
Maybe people could give me suggestions on what they would like?
 

Uhm... well, I'm stuck in the house all day, nursing my son who is in chemotherapy.
This is keeping me from going totally crazy - so this is more like occupational therapy for me :sign5:

Hi all!
 
This one is not directly inspired by any painting. However, it is in the style popular in Portugal in the first half of the 16th century, when it was the center of the european empire
 
 
Technical Details
Dress Mesh: Sussisogoodsims Fantasy Dress http://www.sussissogoodsims2.com/
(I provide the site link although I think this one is already uploaded in MTS2)
 
Mesh Head Piece: Tiara Princess (Acessories) pronupsims http://www.pronupsims.net/
 
Hope you like it and don't forget I love comments :lol:
 
Edit: Get Sussi's mesh here http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=205788

Love them !!! So much beautiful details and shadows...lovely !!!

Great work as always, Marvine.
I am a bit "out" so I don't know what you mean by "Pets fiasco", but then again my expansion is still in the envelope  
 
I'm sure going to be using it - as soon as I get the paintings out.
Thanks so much for all your great work

Wow...they are so great !! It's really very impressive and useful ingame
 
...and I thought it was so funny to see some of my clothes... kind of proud, you know? So thank you for that too ;o)

Hi
 
....and another request.
I guess I have the requests pretty much sorted :lol:
 
John Collier (1850-1934) -- A Late Pre-Raphaelite Painter and Illustrator
After being introduced to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Collier attended London's Slade School of Art, studying under Edward Poynter.
He delighted in illustrating myth, legend, and literature
 
Based on the painting: Queen Guinevere's Maying
 
A scene from Malory, as recast by Tennyson in his 'Idylls of the King' (1859). In the relevant poem, 'Guinevere', the cheerful pointlessness of a May Day procession quickly leads to something less innocent....
 
Technical Details:
 
Dress Mesh: Besen Gown with train http://www.besens-sims2.de/ - Female/Gala/pag 2
Veil Mesh: MESH_biene_schleier010705 http://www.sim2-fashion.de/datenbank/include.php?path=content/download.php&contentid=430

Hi
 
So...this is another request. Hope you like it
 
John William Waterhouse (April 6, 1849 – February 10, 1917) was a British Pre-raphaelite painter most famous for his paintings of female characters from mythology and literature. He belonged to the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 
Based on the paiting: Ophelia (blue dress) or BlueOphelia, presently at the Julian Hartnoll Collection
 
Ophelia is a character of the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. She was a tormented and confused girl and her insanity was a misture of live and hate caused by her phather and Hamlet
Being tormented of scenes of death she reaches out to the beauty of hanging flowers in a willow tree and drowns
 
Mesh by Shannara (inluded) www.shannara-sims2.de

Hi
 
This is the other requested painting. Hope you like her!
 
Sir Thomas Lawrence (April 13, 1769 – January 7, 1830), was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits
Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel - the Queen Consort of King George IV - was one of his favourite subjects, and is reputed to have been his lover for a time
Among English portrait painters he takes a high place, though not as high as that given to him in his lifetime.
 
Based on the painting: Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie (1794)
 
The young girl was the daughter of a wealthy plantation family in Jamaica, who came to England for her education. Called "Pinkie" by her grandmother who commissioned the portrait, she was only eleven when her likeness was taken. Sadly, Sarah died within a few months of the portrait's completion, probably of tuberculosis. Her younger brother Edward was the father of the poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
 
Technical Details:
 
Dress mesh: FTregency http://www.all-about-style.com/terms4.html
Hat mesh: FreeHairs Hat http://www.vitasims2.com/sims2.htm

Hi
 
People asked for it, to go along with the BlueBoy and Pinkie, so here it is. Hope you like him
 
Sir Thomas Lawrence (April 13, 1769 – January 7, 1830), was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits
 
Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel - the Queen Consort of King George IV - was one of his favourite subjects, and is reputed to have been his lover for a time
Among English portrait painters he takes a high place, though not as high as that given to him in his lifetime.
 
 
Based on the painting: Master Charles William Lambton, 1825
(better known as RedBoy)
 
The best display of Lawrence's work is in the Waterloo Gallery of Windsor, a collection of much historical interest. "Master Lambton," painted for Lord Durham at the price of 600 guineas, is regarded as one of his best portraits
 
This is a simple recolour of a Maxis basic game, so no mesh is needed or expansion

sixstringslim, they are really beautiful! The detail is just wonderful! Congrats!
I don't play the game, but I donwloaded it just to study them - you have to learn from the best to improve, right?
Brilliant!

Sorry...what do you mean by Pinky or Blueboy?

Another painting :grin:
 
Marie-Josephe-Rose Tascher (Josephine) was married to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796
Napoleon had great dreams for their future, and his wedding present to Rose — whom he had renamed Josephine — was a gold medallion inscribed with the words "To Destiny."
The couple was crowned Emperor and Empress in 1804, and lived peacefully for two years.
Josephine died on May 29 1814 of a cold, in the arms of her son Eugene. Napoleon learned of her death via a French journal while in exile on Elba, and stayed locked in his room for two days, refusing to see anyone
 
Costume after a painting by Antoine-Jean Gros
 
Tecnical Details:
Mesh All-About-Style http://www.all-about-style.com/themes_regency.html