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pixography: Allison Sommers Allison Sommers is a Brooklyn-based art-worker. A self-taught artist, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in History and a concentration in Early Medieval England. “I am an inveterate magpie: images,
a-r-t-history: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983, mixed media (via Whitney Museum of American Art) what is bwana? pop corn sugar cane tobacco tax free hero.ism self portrait as a heel
a-r-t-history: Arshile Gorky, The Betrothal II, 1947, oil on canvas (via Whitney Museum of American Art)
philamuseum: Happy birthday to Marcel Duchamp! A pioneer of conceptual art and Dadaism, the artist famously said, “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.“ Did you know the Museum houses the largest
John Constable (1776 - 1837), View of Salisbury (c. 1820)
Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 - 1647), Elijah receiving bread from the widow of Sarepta (1624-25), J. Paul Getty Museum
Zinaida Evgen’ evna Serebrjakova (1884 - 1967), Portrait of Lola Braz (1910)
artmastered: The Chain Pier, built in 1823, was Brighton’s first major pier. It was destroyed in 1896 after a brutal storm, but parts of the pier can still be seen during low tides. Both Turner and Constable famously painted the Chain Pier just a few
Janos Thorma (Kiskunhalas 1870 - Nagybanya 1937), View of Nagybanya, N/D
Leon Bakst (Grodno 1866 - Paris 1924), Portrait of Alexander Benois, watercolour and pastel on paper, 1898
David Bomberg (Birmingham 1890 - London 1957), Evening in the City of London, 1944
Oskar Schlemmer (Stuttgart 1888 - Baden-Baden 1943), Group of fourteen in an imaginary architecture, 1930, oil and tempera on canvas
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
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,
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
artmastered: Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of John Singer Sargent, c.1890, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1897
Carlo Saraceni (Venezia c. 1579 - 1620), Miracolo di San Benno (Miracle of St. Benno), oil on canvas, 1617
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
Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima; Conegliano 1459/60 - 1517/18); Il Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ), 1492; oil on wood, 210 x 350 cm; Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora, Venezia
Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728 - Roma 1779); Maria Luisa of Parma, c. 1765; oil on canvas, 110 x 152 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid
William Hogarth (London, 1697 - 1764); Christ at the Pool of Bethesda, 1736, oil on canvas; St. Bartolomew’s Hospital, London
Frans Floris (Frans de Vriendt called Floris; Antwerp, 1517 - 1570); The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, 1562; oil on wood, 230 x 165 cm; Musée du Louvre, Paris
Michael Pacher (c. 1435, Bruneck, Sudtyrol - 1498 Salzburg); The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, c. 1480; oil on panel, 102 x 99 cm; Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Jan Fyt (Antwerp, 1611 - 1661); Cat, Venison and a Basket of Grapes, c. 1660; oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm; Musée du Louvre, Paris
José de Ribera (also known as Jusepe; Jàtiva 1591 - Napoli 1652); The Duel between Women or The Duel of Isabella de Carazzi and Diambra de Pettinella, 1636; oil on canvas, 235 x 212 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid
Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640); Head of a franciscan friar, 1515-17; oil on wood, 44 x 52 cm; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Hans von Aachen (Cologne 1552 - Prague 1615); The rape of Proserpina, 1587; oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu (Romania)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867); Self portrait at the age of 78, 1858; oil on canvas, 51 x 62 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Raffaello Sanzio (Urbino 1483 - Roma 1520); Estasi di Santa Cecilia (The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia), 1514; oil on panel transferred to canvas, 149 x 236 cm; Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris 1796 - Ville d'Avray 1875); Ronde de Nimphes - Effet du Matin (Circle of Nymphs - Morning Effect), c. 1857; oil on canvas, 58 x 37 cm
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi called il Caravaggio; Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610); L'incredulità di San Tommaso (The incredulity of St. Thomas), c. 1600-01; oil on canvas, 146 x 107 cm; Bildergalerie, Potsdam
Fra Bartolomeo (real name Baccio della Porta, Firenze 1473 - 1517); Apparizione della Vergine a San Bernardo (the Vision of St. Bernard); 1504; tempera on panel, 220 x 213 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Stanislav Zhukovsky (Hrodna 1875 - Pruszkow 1944); Summer Evening on the lake, 1915; oil on canvas; National Art Museum of Belarus, Minsk
Fëdor Alekseev (also spelled Fyodor Alekseyev; Saint Petersburg, 1753 - 1824); View of the Kremlin and the Kamenny Bridge in Moscow, beginning of 19th century; oil on canvas
Stanislaw Wyspianski (Krakow, 1869 - 1907); Portrait of Eliza Parenska, 1902; pastel on cardboard
Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640); Allegory of Peace and War (Minerva protects Pax from Mars), 1629-30; oil on canvas, 298 x 203.5 cm; National Gallery, London
Alfred Sisley (Paris 1839 - Moret-sur-Loing 1899); Banks of the Loing, 1896; oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm
Antoon van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641); Portrait of a Genoise Noblewoman, between 1621 and 1627; oil on canvas, 170 x 239 cm; Musée du Louvre, Paris
Alice Bailly (Geneva 1872 - Lousanne 1938); The land of the vineyard or The harvest, 1924; oil on canvas, 197 x 223 cm; Musikkollegium, Winterthur
Abraham A. Manievich (Mstsislaw, now Belarus, 1881 - Bronx, NYC, 1942); The destruction of the Ghetto, 1919; oil on canvas, 198 x 188 cm; Jewish Museum, New York City
Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp, 1593 - 1678); Saint Carlo Borromeo cares for the plague victims of Milan, 1655; oil on canvas; Sint Jacobskerk, Antwerp
George Wesley Bellows (Columbus, Ohio, 1882 - New York City 1925); The Circus, 1912; oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86 cm; Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Hans von Kulmbach (Hans Süß, Kulmbach around 1480 - Nuremberg c. 1522); The Coronation of the Virgin, 1514; oil on panel, 79 x 117 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kazimir Malevich (Kiev 1879 - Leningrad 1935); Portrait of Artist’s Wife N.A. Malevich, 1933; oil on canvas, 56 x 67.5 cm; The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Isaac Levitan (Kybarthai, Lithuania, 1860 - Moscow 1900); High waters, 1885; oil on panel. State Museum of Belarus, Minsk
Claude Monet - View of the Sea at Sunset 4d [ca 1882] pastel on paper 15.3 x 40 cm Boston MFA by petrus.agricola on Flickr.
Santi di Tito (Borgo San Sepolcro 1536 - Firenze 1603); La visione di San Tommaso d'Aquino (the vision of St. Thomas Aquinas), 1593; oil on table, 233 x 362 cm; Chiesa di San Marco, Firenze
John Singer Sargent (Firenze 1856 - London 1925; Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, 1885; oil on canvas, 62.2 x 52.1 cm; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentoville (Arkansas)
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (The Hague, 1824 - 1903); Bateaux de pêche (fishing boats), 1899; oil on canvas, 121 x 65.5 cm; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Piero della Francesca (between 1410/1420 ? - 1492), Battesimo di Cristo (the Baptism of Christ), around 1450; tempera on panel, 167 x 116 cm; National Gallery
Pesellino (born Francesco di Stefano, ca. 1422-1457), Madonna and Child with six Saints, late 1440s; tempera and gold on panel, 22.5 x 20.3 cm; the Metropolitan Museum of ArtLeft to right of the observer, the Saints are Anthony Abbot, Jerome, Cecilia,
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445-1510), The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (part one), 1483. Tempera on board, 83 x 138 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino called il Moretto, Italian, c.1498-1554), Portrait of a Young Man - Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco? -, c. 1540-1545. Oil on canvas, 114 x 94.5 cm; National Gallery, London
history-of-fashion: late 17th century Circle of the Master of Calamarca, Lake Titicaca School - Archangel with Arquebus, Salamiel Paxdei (Peace of God) (New Orleans Museum of Art)
crossconnectmag: Matthew Woodson is an illustrator from Chicago, IL.USA He was born in the woods sometime in the early 80s. He graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in early 2006 with a focus in Natural History Illustration. Directly
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