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canforasoap: Eschilo Gozzano (Swiss-Italian, born 1975), Disembodied Woman, 2019. Oil paint on inkjet print.
blastedheath:Serge Poliakoff (Russian-French, 1900-1969), Composition abstraite, 1964. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm.
wasbella102:Barley field Ireland, John O’Grady
urgetocreate:Childe Hassam, Charles River and Beacon Hill, 1892
fleurdulys: Femme a robe rouge - Paul Gauguin 1891
urgetocreate:Oskar Kokoschka, Portrait of the Stage Director Vsevolod Meyerkhold, 1937-38
angrywhistler: Liu Xiaodong
le-desir-de-lautre: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906), View of Auvers, 1873. Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.5 cm.
lyghtmylife:Hans MEMLING [Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1435-1494] Last Judgment Triptych (central)1467-71Oil on woodMuzeum Narodowe, Gdansk
lyghtmylife:Hans MEMLING [Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1435-1494] Last Judgment Triptych (detail)1467-71Oil on woodMuzeum Narodowe, Gdansk
urgetocreate:Jon Redmond, Nude in Tub, oil on board, 2011
cheatingdeath: Richard DiebenkornStudio Wall, 1963 Oil on canvas 45 2/5 × 42 1/2 in
fuckyeahrenaissanceart: Bozzetto for Charity on Pope Urban VIII’s tomb ~Gian Lorenzo Bernini Terracotta Vatican Museum, Vatican City
cimmerianweathers:Portrait of Katharina Schwarz Hans Holbein the Younger Tempera on panel c. 1509 - 1510
alongtimealone: Nicolas de Staël, Landscape, 1954. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (by mbell1975)
zolotoivek:Pekka Halonen, Winter Landscape, 1919
flaws-and-flaws: Richard Diebenkorn.
bofransson: Mikhail Larionov - Bouquet aux Fleurs Jaunes, 1907
wetreesinart: Auguste Herbin (Fr. 1882-1960), Trois Arbres/Three trees, 1913, huile sur toile, 100 x 85 cm, musée d’art moderne de Céret
artmastered:Edgar Degas, A Cotton Exchange in New Orleans, 1873, oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau. Source
vcrfl-blog:Tiepolo: The Rage of Achilles, 1757. This fresco in the Villa Valmarana in Vicenza is a direct illustration of the first book of the Iliad, where Achilles is about to attack Agamemnon, but Athene pulls him back by the hair at the last moment.
vcrfl:Giulio Carpioni (1613–1678): Latona Turning the Lycian Peasants into Frogs.
alaspoorwallace:Guido Cagnacci (Italian, 1601-1663), The Death of Cleopatra (overall and details), after 1659. Oil on canvas, 153 x 168.5; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
canforasoap:Brett Whiteley (1939-92, Australian). The Olgas. Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 96.5 cm
jareckiworld:Renato Guttuso (1911-1987) — Lemon Growing (oil on canvas, 1956)
terminusantequem:Frank Schroeder (French, b. 1961), Two in Bed, 2015. Mixed media, 67 x 94 cm
vcrfl-blog:Francesco Solimena: Portrait of a Woman, before 1705.
thorsteinulf: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson - A Winter Landscape (1926)
thisblueboy:Ubaldo Gandolfi (Italian, 1728-1781), Mercury About to Behead Argus, ca.1770-75, North Carolina Museum of Art
objectstatus:Bernard Faucon - Le Banquet1978
lyghtmylife:George Inness (American; Hudson River School, Tonalism; 1825-1894): Early Morning, Tarpon Springs; 1892. Oil on canvas, 107.2 x 82.2 cm (42-1/8 x 32-3/8 inches). Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
the-paintrist:artmastered: George Bellows, Steaming Streets, 1908 Bellows first achieved notice in 1908, when he and other pupils of Henri organized an exhibition of mostly urban studies. While many critics considered these to be crudely painted, others
missfolly:Lady Sitting Three-quarter – Artemisia Gentileschi, n.d.
birdsong217: Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865-1931) Sunset over Lake Ruovesi, 1915-16. Oil on canvas.
rickstevensart: Richard Diebenkorn.
centuriespast: MASTER of the OsservanzaSt Anthony Tempted by Goldc. 1440Tempera and gold on wood, 48 x 35 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
lawrenceleemagnuson:Winslow Homer (1836-1910)Twilight at Leeds, New York (1876)oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard 61.28 x 71.12 cm
topcat77:Bruno Walpoth
thecolorblockcurator:Self Portrait in a White Blouse, Zinaida Serebriakova
thisblueboy:Diego Velazquez (Seville 1599-1660 Madrid), The Waterseller, c.1622, Apsley House, The Wellington Collection, London (Now on the view in Kunst Historisches Museum, Vienna per Velazquez exhibition from Oct. 2014 to Feb. 2015.)
classic-art:Winter Coast Winslow Homer, 1890
classic-art:Christ Crowned with Thorns and The Mourning Virgin Adriaen Isenbrant, c. 1530-1540
firsttimeuser:Johan van der Keuken, Mirror, 1960
amare-habeo:Gustave De Smet (Belgian, 1877 - 1943) - Port of Ostende, 1925
athousandwinds: St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus, 1620s, oil on canvas by Guido Reni, Italian, 1575-1642. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Reni’s painting, with the Virgin Mary resting in the background, is most likely that of the Holy Family’s
thisblueboy:Giovanni Baglione (1566-Rome-1643), An Allegory of Charity and Justice Reconciled, 1622, Royall Collection Trust, Windsor Castle
urgetocreate:Fairfield Porter, Young Man, 1968
blastedheath:Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876-1958), Rue de village. Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm.
polskunstgalerie: Hans Holbein d. J. Porträt der Catarina Howard, 5. Ehefrau des Königs Heinrich VIII.. 1540-1541, Tempera auf Holz, 74 × 51 cm. Toledo (Ohio), Museum of Art. Deutschland und Großbritannien. Renaissance. KO 03035
amare-habeo:Adolph von Menzel (German, 1815 - 1905) Moonlight over the Friedrichsgracht in the old Berlin (Mondschein über der Friedrichsgracht im alten Berlin), 1850 - 1860
amare-habeo:Pierre Paulus de Châtelet (Belgian, 1881 - 1959) La Sambre at winter,N/D
italianartsociety:Bernardino Pinturicchio died on 11 December 1513 in Siena. He was 61. After training in Perugia, Pinturicchio got his start working alongside Pietro Perugino in the Sistine Chapel. This collaboration led to independent commissions in
italianartsociety:Today (28 December) is the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents. The Gospel of Matthew recounts how King Herod ordered the execution of all male infants in Bethlehem out of his desire to protect his throne. Unbeknownst to the king, Joseph
artishardgr: Jonas Lie - Saturday Evening, Bryant Park
bofransson:Woman in Blue with a Child Edouard Vuillard - circa 1899
huariqueje:Entre dos luces (Between two Lights) - Ramon Casas i Carbó 1894.
inducitur:Ferdinand Bol, Portrait of an Unknown Woman (c. 1644)
canforasoap:Sam Jinks (Australian, born 1973), Reunion (detail), 2017. Silicone, resin, calcium carbonate, fibreglass and human hair
thecolorblockcurator:Portrait of Rachel Strong, the Future Countess Henri de Boisgelin, Léon Bakst