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italianartsociety: Today is the Feast of Saint Petronius, bishop of Bologna in the 5th century. The Bolognese honor Petronius as their patron saint and dedicated the city’s main church to him. Rising high over the city’s Piazza Maggiore, San Petronio

Vincent van Gogh (Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890), Iron Mill in the Hague, 1882

Stanley Spencer (Cookham on Thames, Berkshire 1891 - 1959); River Nareta, Mostar; 1922

Jan Steen (Leiden 1626 - 1679), The oysters’ eater, 1658-60 c.

André Dunoyer de Ségonzac (Boussy-Saint-Antoine 1884 - Paris 1974) ,The farm on the estate, 1923

Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 - London 1788); The Linley Sisters (Mrs Sheridan and Mrs Tickell); 1772

Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci, 1494 Pontorme - 1557 Firenze); Niccolò Ardighelli, 1518

Silvestro Lega (1826 Modigliana - Firenze 1895); L'elemosina (The Alms), 1864

Heinrich Campendonk (Krefeld 1889 - Amsterdam 1957), Pierrot (with Snake), 1923

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Limoges 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer 1919), En été (Lise ou La Bohémienne), 1868

Marsden Hartley (Lewiston, Maine, 1877 - Ellsworth, Maine, 1943); Jotham’s Island, 1937

Leon Bakst (Grodno 1866 - Paris 1924), Portrait of Alexander Benois, watercolour and pastel on paper, 1898

artmastered: Diego Velázquez, Rokeby Venus, 1647-51, The National Gallery This is the only surviving example of a female nude by Velázquez. The subject was rare in Spain because it met with the disapproval of the Church. The Rokeby Venus was famously

Gabriel Metsu (Leiden 1629 - Amsterdam 1667), Old woman meditating, 1662, oil on panel, 33 cm x 27 cm, Rijksmuseum (via wikipaintings.org)

David Bomberg (Birmingham 1890 - London 1957), Evening in the City of London, 1944

Giovanni Fattori (Livorno 1825 - Firenze 1908), Signora con ventaglio (Lady with a Fan), 1865

Bartolomeo Manfredi (Ostiano [Mantova, oggi Cremona] 1482 - Roma 1622), Il sacrificio di Isacco (The sacrifice of Isaac), 1620-22; 180 cm x 150 cm, oil on canvas; Roma, Chiesa del Gesù

Francis Picabia (Paris 1879 - 1953), The Moret Canal, Autumn Effect (1909)

José Gutiérrez Solana (Madrid 1886 - 1945), La visita del obispo (the Bishop’s visit), 1926; oil on cardboard, 161 cm x 211 cm

Jonas Lie (Moss, Norway, 1880 - New York City 1940), When the Boats come in, 1921

Carlo Carrà (Quargnento, Alessandria, 1881 - Milano 1966), Estate (Summer), 1930

Oskar Schlemmer (Stuttgart 1888 - Baden-Baden 1943), Group of fourteen in an imaginary architecture, 1930, oil and tempera on canvas

italianartsociety: October 15 is the Feast Day of St. Theresa of Avila, the Spanish mystic who died on 4 October 1582 and was canonized in 1622. The patron saint of Spain, Theresa founded the order of Discalced (barefoot) Carmelites, a reform female

Christen Købke (Kastellet, Copenhagen, 1810 - Copenhagen 1848), View of Østerbro from Dosseringen, 1838

Andrea Sacchi (Nettuno 1599 - Roma 1661), Morte di Sant'Anna (Death of St. Anne), oil on canvas, 1649

Telemaco Signorini (Firenze 1835 - 1901), Il ghetto di Firenze (The ghetto of Florence), oil on canvas, 1882

Johann Liss (Oldenburg 1597 - Venezia 1630), Nymph and shepherd, 1625 c.

Paul Cézanne (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906), The Fishermen (fantastic scene),1875 view high resolution: http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DT2157.jpg

Alexander Deineka (or Deyneka; Kursk 1899 - Moscow 1969), Expanse, 1944, oil on canvas via http://www.deineka.info/

Auguste Toulmouche (Nantes 1829 - Paris 1890), Consolation, 1867

italianartsociety: Sculptor Jacopo della Quercia died on this day in 1438 in Siena. Seen today as the most significant Italian sculptor working outside of Florence, Jacopo made numerous public and private monuments in his hometown as well as in Bologna,

Christopher Wood (Knowsley 1901 - Salisbury 1930), Church at Tréboul (Brittany), 1930, oil on board, 73 cm x 91 cm

Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani, Venezia 1485 - Roma 1547), Cristo Portacroce (Christ bearing the Cross), c. 1516

Louis Marcoussis (Warsaw 1878 or 1873 - Cusset, near Vichy, 1941), Kerity landscape, 1927

Gerard David (c. 1460, Ouderwater - 1523, Bruges), The rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1512-15, oil on wood

italianartsociety: On this day in 1461, Florentine painter Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint an altarpiece for the new oratory of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Purificazione e di San Zanobi, a youth confraternity sponsored by Cosimo de’Medici

Theodore Gericault (Rouen, 1791 - Paris, 1824), Scène de Déluge (c. 1818) http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=15386

Christian Schad (Miesbach 1894 - Keilberg, Aschaffenburg, 1982), Maika, 1929

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam 1852 - Amsterdam 1923), Singelbrug bij de Paleisstraat te Amsterdam (the Singelbrug near the Paleisstraat in Amsterdam), c. 1897

artmastered: Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of John Singer Sargent, c.1890, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1897

Federico Barocci (Urbino, c. 1535 - 1612), L'ultima cena (The Last Supper), 1590-99, oil on canvas

David McClure (Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, 1926 - Dundee 1998), Houses in Toscana, gouache, 1956

Salvador Dalí (Figueras 1904 - 1989), Muchacha en la ventana (girl at the window), 1925

artmastered: François Boucher, The Rising of the Sun and The Setting of the Sun, 1752-53

Carlo Saraceni (Venezia c. 1579 - 1620), Miracolo di San Benno (Miracle of St. Benno), oil on canvas, 1617

Milton Avery (Altmar, New York 1885 - New York City 1965) a) Canadian Cove, 1940; b) Gaspe pink sky, 1940

Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798 - Paris 1863), Still life with lobsters, 1827, oil on canvas, Louvre

Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596 - The Hague 1656), View of Leiden from the northeast, 1650

William McGregor Paxton (Baltimore, Maryland, 1869 - Newton Centre, Massachusetts, 1941); Portrait of a young woman in blue, n/d; oil on canvas, 77 cm x 64 cm

Cosimo Rosselli (Firenze 1439 - 1507), Miracolo del Sangue (Miracle of the Blood), 1584-86, detached fresco; Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio, Firenze

Giuseppe Abbati (Napoli 1836 - Firenze 1868), Il lattaio di Piagentina (The milkman of Piagentina), 1864, oil on canvas

Philip James de Loutherbourg (Strasbourg 1740 - Chiswick, London 1812), A distant hail-storm coming on and the march of soldiers with their baggage (1799); oil on canvas, 109 cm x 162 cm; Tate

John Wesley Carroll (b. Wichita, Kansas 1891 or 1892 - d. Kansas City [?] 1959), Lady in blue, c 1924, oil on canvas, LACMA Collections

Jan Gossaert (called Mabuse; Maubege c. 1478 - Middelburg c. 1532), St. Donatian of Rheims, oil on board, after 1510

David Davidovich Burljuk (also Burliuk; Char'kov 1882 - New York City 1967), Landscape with trees, 1910

twofacedmirror: Elisabeth Chaplin, 1912 (Italian, born France, 1890 - 1982) Born in France and raised in Italy, Elisabeth Chaplin first presented her work in 1912 at the Promotrice Fiorentina and later, in 1920, at the Venice Biennale. She was influenced

Sandro Botticelli (Sandro di Mariano Filipepi called il Botticelli; 1444 or 1445 Firenze - Firenze 1510), Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ), c. 1495, tempera on panel, 107 x 71 cm; Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville, 1617 - 1682), Sagrada Familia del pajarito (Holy Family with the little bird), c 1650, oil on canvas; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Lajos Deák Ébner (1850 Pest - 1934 Budapest), Poultry Market, 1885; oil on canvas, 132 cm x 97 cm; Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), Budapest

William Roberts (Hackney, London, 1895 - London 1980), The port of London, c 1920-24; oil on canvas; Tate

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