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asylum-art: Paul Cummins: 888,246 Ceramic Poppies Flow Like Blood from the Tower of London to Commemorate WWIt The moat that surrounds the Tower of London has long stood empty and dry. This summer, it’s getting filled with 888,246 red ceramic poppies,
Quite proud of how that Chaos Emerald came out.Art by History-Eraser-Button aka meaconscientiaColours by me
wannabescholar:futurelookingfine-arts:yungvermeer:A Walk Through Art History I designed these shoes with a unique goal in mind: to create a shoe as a summation of an entire culture’s art. Each shoe possesses design qualities, color palettes, and designs
fyeah-history: Tsar Alexei Chooses His Bride by Grigory Sedov (the result of the Tsardom-wide contest organized by Boris Morozov was his relative Maria Miloslavskaya)Aleksey Mikhailovich (Russian: Алексей Михайлович) (29 March [O.S.
svalts: Full cover art of Tales of the New Republic // by Paul Youll The saddest moment in the Galactic Empire’s history. Rebel scum.
questionableadvice: silvermarmoset: questionableadvice: ~ “Progress”, 1915 editorial cartoon Society despairs of the Modern Woman, 1915 style History geek note: Now I’m imagining an editorial cartoon from 1615 comparing “Ye Moderne Bible
artschoolglasses: Artistic Movements: Rococo The Rococo style started in the early 18th Century, a favourite of King Louis XV, and fell out of fashion towards the end of the century, making way for more Neoclassical art. The style itself has received
fuckyeahrenaissanceart: Pallas and the Centaur Sandro Botticelli c. 1482 Tempera on wood 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi , Florence, Tuscany, Italy In this painting we can see another side of Renaissance Art; namely that of
italianartsociety: On this day [July 15] in 1609, Italian painter Annibale Carracci died in Rome at age 48. Widely recognized as one of the fathers of Italian Baroque art, after starting an academy in his native Bologna with his brother Agostino and
A. Y. Jackson (Alexander Young Jackson, 1882 - 1974), The edge of the maple wood
Hans Baldung (1484-85 - 1545), Adoration of the Magi (1507)
Michail Vasil'evič Nesterov (1862 - 1942), The great initiation, taking of the veil (1898)
Hans von Marées (1837 - 1887, Roma), Hesperiden (1884), triptychon, oil on wood, 341 cm x 482 “He […] developed a complex and individual technique, overpainting tempera with layers of oil and creating a depth of colour quite unlike the
André Derain (1880 - 1954), Ball of Soldiers in Suresnes (1903)
George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925), The rope, builders of ships (1916)
artmastered: London scenes by Canaletto, mid-18th century Venetian artist Canaletto first travelled to England in 1746 after the number of Englishmen on the Grand Tour dropped significantly during the War of Austrian Succession. He painted many major
Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani, Venezia 1485 c. - Roma 1547), Madonna del velo [Madonna of the veil] (1533-35), olio su lavagna [oil on slate], Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli excerpt from en.wikipedia: “After the elevation of
Paul (Hippolyte) Delaroche (1797 - 1856), La mort des fils de roi Edouard I dans la Tour (The death of the sons of king Edward in the Tower), 1831, Louvre
Jean-François Millet (Gréville-Hague 1814 - Barbizon 1875), Paysage d'automne avec un troupeau de dindes (Autumn landscape with a flock of Turkeys), 1882-83
italianartsociety: Italian painter and printmaker Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua, where he had served the Gonzaga dukes as court artist for almost half a century. Mantegna, one of the leading artists of the later Quattrocento, is
Nicholas Roerich (1874 - 1947), Book of dove (1922)
italianartsociety: On this day in 1419, painter Gentile da Fabriano requested a letter from Pandolfo III Malatesta, Lord of Fano, Bergamo and Brescia for safe passage to travel to Florence on horseback in the company of seven others. Gentile had been
Émile Friant (Dieuze 1863 – Paris 1932), The entrance of the clowns (completed in 1881, when the painter was 18)
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (Paris 1699 - 1779), Still life with jar of olives, 1760
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
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
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
the-paintrist: Arthur Bowen Davies - Interwoven - 1916 Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1863 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States circa 1910-1928. Davies was born in Utica,
artmastered: François Boucher, The Rising of the Sun and The Setting of the Sun, 1752-53
Joseph Stella (Muro Lucano [Italy] 1887 - New York City 1946), Children’s Toys (Marionettes), c. 1930, oil on canvas, 65 cm x 82 cm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Niccolò Dell'Abate (Modena c. 1509 - Fontainebleau (?), 1571), Ritratto di un cavaliere dell'Ordine di Santiago (Portrait of a knight of the Order of Santiago), 1548-1552; oil on canvas; Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Lambert Sustris (Amsterdam c. 1515 - Venezia [?] c. 1584), Noli me tangere, n/d (second half of 16th century); oil on canvas; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Giambattista Tiepolo (Venezia 1696 - Madrid 1770), The Olympus or The Triumph of Venus, 1761-1764, oil on canvas; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Edvard Munch (Løten 1863 - Oslo 1944), Summer night’s dream (The Voice), 1893, oil on canvas, 88 x 108 cm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hugo van der Goes (Ghent c. 1440 - Oudergem 1482); Death of the Virgin, c. 1475 -1480; oil on oak panel
François Boucher (Paris, 1703 - 1770); The Triumph of Venus, 1740
Carlo Maratti (or Maratta; b. 1625, Camerano - d. Roma, 1713); Il Bagno di Diana (Bath of Diana), 1684; oil on canvas, 49 x 65 cm; private collection
Robert Delaunay (Paris 1885 - Montpellier 1941); The city of Paris, 1912; oil on canvas
David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexico City 1896 - Cuernavaca 1974); Nacimiento del Fascismo (Birth of Fascism), 1945; oil on canvas
Henry Raeburn (Edinburgh, 1756 - 1823); John Stirling of Kippendavie and His Youngest Daughter, Jean Wilhelmina; c. 1812, oil on canvas, 196 x 150 cm; The national trust of Scotland
Leonardo da Vinci [Vinci (near Firenze) 1452 - Clos Lucé, Amboise, Tours (France), 1519] a) Study of Hands [maybe for the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci], c. 1474, Silverpoint and white highlights on pink prepared paper, 214 x 150 mm, Windsor Castle,
Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; b. Leiden 1606 - d. Amsterdam 1669), The anatomy lesson of Dr. Joan Deyman, oil on canvas, 100 x 134 cm (fragment of a larger group portrait destroyed by fire in 1723)
Alexej von Jawlensky (Toržok, Tver´, 1864 - Wiesbaden 1941); Melancholy in the evening - Wasserburg on the Inn (1907), oil on cardboard, 53 x 61 cm; St. Petersburg (United States) Museum of Fine Arts
Lorenzo Lotto (Venezia c. 1480 - Loreto 1556); L'elemosina di Sant'Antonino (The Alms of St. Anthony), 1540-42; oil on canvas, 235 x 332 cm; Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia
Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1488-90 - Venezia 1576); Il supplizio di Marsia (The flaying of Marsyas), c. 1570; oil on canvas, 212 x 207 cm; National Museum, Kroměříž, Czech Republic
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Iacopo called il Rosso Fiorentino; Firenze 1495 - Fountainebleau 1540); Assunzione della Vergine (Assumption of the Virgin), 1517; fresco, 385 x 337 cm; Chiostrino dei Voti, Firenze
italianartsociety: Renato Guttuso died on this day in Rome in 1987. He was 75. Born near Palermo, Guttuso started painting working for a family friend decorating carts with images of the Norman conquest of Sicily. He studied under Futurist Pippo Rizzo
Diego Velazquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660); Triumph of Bacchus, 1628; oil on canvas, 227 x 165 cm; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Jan Matejko (Krakow, 1838 - 1893); Rejtan - The Fall of Poland, 1866; oil on canvas, 487 x 282 cm; Warsaw, Royal Castle’s Museum view high resolution: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Rejtan_Upadek_Polski_Matejko.jpg?uselang=it
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Blåkrog, 1783 – Copenaghen, 1853 The Cloisters - San Lorenzo fuori le mura, 1824; oil on canvas; Art Institute of Chicago
Carel Fabritius (Beemster 1622 - Delft 1654); The raising of Lazarus, 1643, oil on canvas; Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (Warsaw
Melchior Broederlam (b. Ypres, active 1381 - 1409); The Flight into Egypt, detail of the Dijon Altarpiece, 1393-99; tempera on wood; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
italianartsociety: Giuseppe De Nittis was born on this day in 1846 in the Puglian city of Barletta. Like other 19th-century artists, De Nittis worked out of doors, emulating the plein-air aesthetic and varied light effects of the French Impressionists
Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1826 - 1898); Le Christ au Jardin des Oliviers (Christ in the Garden of Olives), c. 1880; oil on canvas, 70 x 85 cm; Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari called Veronese; 1528 Verona - 1588 Venezia); La cena nella casa di Levi (the feast in the house of Levi), 1573; oil on canvas, 1280 x 555 cm; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura, 1598 - Madrid 1664); The defense of Cadiz against the English, 1634; oil on canvas, 323 x 302 cm; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges, c. 1561 - London, 1636); Henry - Prince of Wales, c. 1603; oil on canvas, 117 x 162 cm; National Portrait Gallery, London
Antoine Wiertz (Dinant 1806 - Brussels 1865); La chute des anges rebelles (The fall of the rebel angels), c. 1840; oil on canvas, 33 x 63 cm
Filipp Maliavin (also spelled Malyavin; Kazanki, Samara, 1869 - Nice 1940); Self-portrait with Wife and Daughter, 1910-11; oil on canvas, 232 x 285 cm; Khanty-Mansiysk State Museum of Visual Arts
José de Ribera (also known as Jusepe de Ribera and Spagnoletto; Xàtiva 1591 - Napoli 1652); Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, 1628; oil on canvas, 183 x 209 cm; Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
![italianartsociety: On this day [July 15] in 1609, Italian painter Annibale Carracci died in Rome at age 48. Widely recognized as one of the fathers of Italian Baroque art, after starting an academy in his native Bologna with his brother Agostino and](https://64.media.tumblr.com/9889490a828d18a1df8b216ff49651f3/tumblr_mpujkvDNEn1syzcjgo1_250.jpg)
![Hans von Marées (1837 - 1887, Roma), Hesperiden (1884), triptychon, oil on wood, 341 cm x 482 “He […] developed a complex and individual technique, overpainting tempera with layers of oil and creating a depth of colour quite unlike the](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d81e68b3eac411c2415a8c4152bf692/tumblr_mrih6rzeui1qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani, Venezia 1485 c. - Roma 1547), Madonna del velo [Madonna of the veil] (1533-35), olio su lavagna [oil on slate], Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli excerpt from en.wikipedia: “After the elevation of](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c0c5b7d8f70b38c1e7cbe8bdb9ec53fe/tumblr_msve7dUgop1qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![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](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0d66e74d54e22be74921e131689d57e7/tumblr_mulwz6q7R61qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![Joseph Stella (Muro Lucano [Italy] 1887 - New York City 1946), Children’s Toys (Marionettes), c. 1930, oil on canvas, 65 cm x 82 cm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1402fa77444f25a663e10254f6c4cc02/tumblr_mvwkjrLGW41qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![Lambert Sustris (Amsterdam c. 1515 - Venezia [?] c. 1584), Noli me tangere, n/d (second half of 16th century); oil on canvas; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille](https://64.media.tumblr.com/685126b2dc7f63205e00c3f7c266709b/tumblr_mwf2kle8KG1qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
![Leonardo da Vinci [Vinci (near Firenze) 1452 - Clos Lucé, Amboise, Tours (France), 1519] a) Study of Hands [maybe for the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci], c. 1474, Silverpoint and white highlights on pink prepared paper, 214 x 150 mm, Windsor Castle,](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0063add16cf2a1f65711f2e59d6fcd10/tumblr_mxugoem2lI1qzxzwso1_250.jpg)
