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huariqueje: Interior with a Woman at the Virginals - Emanuel de Witte , 1660-67. Dutch, 1617-1692 Oil on canvas, 97.5 cm (38.39 in.) x 109.7 cm (43.19 in.)
terminusantequem:Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950), Man and Woman, 1932. Oil on canvas, 68 x 48 in.
deadpaint:Henri Matisse, Conversation
ozu-teapot: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jires | 1970 Jaroslava Schallerová, Martin Wielgus, Jirí Prýmek, Alena Stojáková, Helena Anýzová, Jirina Machalická
lilithsplace:Girl with a Parrot - Christopher Wood (English 1901–1930)
thunderstruck9:Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922-1993), Interior Green with Chair, 1964. Gouache on paper, 39.1 x 30.3 cm.
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kecobe: DionysiusBarnett Newman (American; 1905–1970)1949Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.© 2009 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
lyghtmylife: PARMIGIANINO [Italian Mannerist Painter, 1503-1540] Gian Galeazzo Sanvitale, Count of Fontanellato1524Oil on panel, 109 x 81 cmPinacoteca, Museo Nazionale, Naples
thunderstruck9:Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990), Winter Sea. Oil on board, 142 x 117 cm.
a-la-belle-e-toile: Gustave Courbet - The Beach, 1865, oil on canvas, 53.5 x 64 cm Photo : Rheinisches Bildarchiv KölnWallraf-Richartz-Museum, Germany
thunderstruck9:Jean Lurçat (French, 1892-1966), Portrait de femme, 1922. Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm
koredzas:Rogier van der Weyden - Madonna and Child. 1460
ozu-teapot: The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1991 Irène Jacob
maertyrer: Gaudenzio FerrariSaint Catherine and Saint Apollonia second quarter of the 16th century
la-beaute–de-pandore: Fabrizio Albertini
necspenecmetu:Lorenzo Lippi, Saint Francis, c. 1639
dappledwithshadow: Les Poids et les MesuresRené Magritte1949 Private collection Painting - oil on canvas Height: 53.5 cm (21.06 in.), Width: 46 cm (18.11 in.)
hirxeth:The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
bienenkiste: Photographed by Perry Ogden, 1998
thunderstruck9:César De Cock (Belgian, 1823-1904), Sous-bois, 1871. Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 49 cm.
centuriespast: GIORDANO, Luca Perseus Fighting Phineus and his Companions c. 1670 Oil on canvas, 285 x 366 cm National Gallery, London
elegantiaearbiter:Portrait of Jacopo Sannazzaro, by Tiziano Vecellio, Royal Collection, London.
magictransistor:Compost et Calendrier des Bergers. Punishment of the Envious. 1493.
kundst:Andrea del Sarto (It. 1486-1530) Portrait of a Woman (c. 1514) Oil on panel (73 x 56 cm) Prado Madrid Probably this is the painter’s wife; Lucrecia del Fede.
herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels:Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), Melting Point of Ice, 1984. Acrylic, oilstick and silkscreen, 218.44 x 172.72 cm.
thunderstruck9:Arshile Gorky (Armenian/American, 1904-1948), Untitled (Still Life), c.1930. Oil on canvas, 33 x 23 in.
ancientart: Ancient Etruscan Mirror with Female Figure and Engraved Scene, bronze, 3rd century BC. The handle of this mirror is cast as a female figure with bracelets, armband, and necklace. She holds an object in her right hand, her arm is bent, and
thenon-alphabeticalname:Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Ricordo di un dolore
givemesomesoma: Ercole de’ Roberti Pala Portuense 1479 - 1481 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
kecobe: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British; 1775–1851)Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean SybilOil on canvas, 1814–15Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut “Thus, at the length, your passage shall be free, And you shall safe descend
ozu-teapot: Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 Victor Sjöström, Gunnel Broström
thunderstruck9:Carel Willink (Dutch, 1900-1983), Uitzicht op meer [View over lake], 1952. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60.5 cm.
bewonderment:Caravaggio’s The Seven Works of Mercy, Pio Monte della Misericordia - Naples, Italy (July 2011)
artmastered: Carlo Crivelli, Annunciation with St Emidius, 1486, oil on wood transferred to canvas, 207 x 147 cm, The National Gallery, London. Source Carlo Crivelli was a Venetian-born painter, renowned for his late-Gothic inspired style.
peira:Maurice de Vlaminck: Still Life with Knife (1910)
lionofchaeronea:Apollo, with cithara, holds out a phiale (libation dish) to Nike; between them is the omphalos-stone (”navel of the world,” located at Delphi). Marble relief, artist unknown; ca. 100-75 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
classic-art: Lamentation over the Dead Christ Peter Paul Rubens 1613-14, oil on canvas, 150 x 204; Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein, Vaduz
artmastered: Vittore Carpaccio, The Birth of the Virgin, 1504-08, tempera on canvas, 126 x 128 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo. Source I studied this painting in second year, in the context of Renaissance interiors. Carpaccio is a good artist to look
thunderstruck9:Raphael Soyer (American, 1899-1987), Still Life, 1928. Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.5 cm.
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transistoradio:Larry Rivers (1923-2002), The Red Beret (1956), oil on canvas, 50.8 × 50.8 cm. Via Artsy.
artishardgr: Henri Rousseau - Sevres Bridge
hadrian6: Virgin and Child with the infant Saint John. 1523-25. Bernardino Luini. Italian. 1482-1532. oil on canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
lyghtmylife: Paolo VERONESE [Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1528-1588] The Vision of St Helenac. 1580Oil on canvas, 166 x 134 cmPinacoteca, Vatican The subject of the painting is the story of the vision, or more correctly the dream, which, according
caravaggista:Caravaggio, Madonna di Loreto (c. 1604-6)
urgetocreate:Zinaida Serebriakova, Self Portrait, 1922
necspenecmetu:Valentin de Boulogne, Allegory of Italy, c. 1627-8
lyghtmylife: Felix Vallotton [Swiss-born French Nabi Painter, 1865-1925] View of Cagne, 1921 oil on canvas Private collection
bofransson: Villierme, Henry - Hidden Valley
deadpaint:Valentin Serov, Children (1899)
tripstothemuseum: Celebes, Max Ernst, 1921 Oil paint on canvas.Tate Modern “The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used
lyghtmylife: Raphaelle Peale [American Painter, 1774-1825]Venus Rising from the Sea—A Deception c. 1822 Oil on canvas 29 x 24 in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri A painting which famously comments on the fact that depictions
urgetocreate:canvasobsession-deactivated2013: Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916), From a Farm, Refsnaes, 1900. Oil on canvas. David Collection, Copenhagen.
blastedheath: Malcolm Bray (American, born England, 1958), Verrazano, 2013. Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 in.
poboh:Footprints, ca 1950, Saul Leiter. American, born in 1923.
villettess: William Orpen - Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Green Dress, 1899
urgetocreate:Vincent van Gogh, Landscape Under a Stormy Sky, 1888
renaissance-art: Verrocchio c. 1472-1475 Baptism of Christ
theories-of:Max Ernst The Immaculate Conception. 1929