Years before the invention of photography, and a long time before the fashionable and glamorous portraits of Irving Penn and Mario Testino, Giovanni Boldini was one of the most famous portrait painters of the ''celebrities'' of his time.He was born in Italy,but moved in Paris during the Belle Epoque. Boldini mostly painted wealthy ,fashionably dressed women,in a very alluring and glamorous way. Flamboyant themes, diagonal, sharp and edgy brushstrokes,vivid and bright colors ,beautifully depicted materials, created a dazzling, extravagant and dramatic result.
