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killthecurator: Richard Diebenkorn
centuriespast: The Beheading of St. Catherine of Alexandria Date: circa 1325-30 Artist: Pseudo-Jacopino di Francesco Italian, active 1320-1350 North Carolina Museum of Art
cavetocanvas: Euan Uglow, The Blue Towel, 1982 The Blue Towel’ depicts the artist Liz Barratt in three different poses, which Uglow made numerous drawings of in his studio in the summer and autumn of 1982. The three poses depicted relate to her habit
amare-habeo: Gustave Van de Woestyne (Belgian, 1881-1947) The Last Supper, 1927 Oil on canvas via podsteklom
lyghtmylife: Lowry, L. S. [British Painter, 1887-1976] A Manufacturing Town 1922 Oil on panel 43,2 x 53,3 cm. The Science Museum, London
vivaversace:Helena Christensen wearing Atelier Versace
nataliakoptseva: Gauguin’s Chair, 1888. Vincent Van Gogh
centuriespast: Saint Peter Nolasco Recovering The Image Of The Virgin Artist/Maker:Francisco Zurbarán (Spanish, b.1598, d.1664), painter Date:1630 Cincinnati Art Museum
hadrian6: Portrait of Melchior Von Brauweiler. 1540. Jan Stephan Van Calcar. German. 1499-1546. oil on canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
endlessquestion: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Lane (c. 1850)
italianartsociety: Giusto di Giovanni de’ Menabuoi died on this day in 1390, according to a tomb inscription in Padua Baptistery, which he decorated with frescoes starting in 1375. Though born in Florence, all of his known works are from northern Italy.
latenebreuse:Brea Souters. Untitled #7, Dream Series, Marquis de Sade.
leserpente: Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)“Fumeur et buveur d'absinth” (smoker and absinthe drinker) c. 1855/60.
jazzandmovies:the Great Bill Evans
lyghtmylife: Fernand Léger [French Cubist Painter, 1881-1955] Les Fumeurs (The Smokers) 1911-12 oil on canvas 129.2 x 96.5 cm
smartartgalleries:“I still find no mind today that is really in sympathy with mine. Not, at least, on the deeper levels. Only in the shallows can I splash around with others. It is probably my fault for expecting altogether too much. But I long sometimes,
urgetocreate:Joaquin Sorolla, Torre de los Siete Picos, La Alhambra, Granada, 1910
showmethe-monet:David Bomberg Study for ‘Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company Hill 60, St Eloi’ 1918-19
findlight: Henri Fantin-Latour, Retrato de M.e Mme Edwards, 1875.
necspenecmetu:Bartolomeo Manfredi, The Crowning of Thorns, c. 1616-7
lyghtmylife: Renato Guttuso [Italian Expressionist Painter, 1912-1987] (Italian, 1912‑1987) Donna alla finestra 1942 Oil on canvas 39.4 x 47.2 in Collection of the VAF Foundation, on long-term loan at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of
bofransson: Calla Hermann Max Pechstein - 1931
jrgysusobjetos: ESPACIO ESFERICO III. Para Sergio. 21x21x21cmts S.62 2.018
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im-so-lonely-but-thats-ok:Paul Cezanne, House and Tree, the Hermitage, Pontoise, 1873-74
renaissance-art: Jan Van Eyck c. 1437 Saint Barbara
masterpiecedaily: Andrea del Sarto Portrait of a Young Man 1517
bofransson: Morning Lovis Corinth - 1900
thisblueboy: Johannes Vermeer, Diana and her Companions, 1655 - 1656, Gallery of The Hague
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met-cloisters: Saint George and the Dragon by Hans von Judenburg, The CloistersMedium: Chestnut, paint, giltThe Cloisters Collection, 1964 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471926
theegoist:Leo Leuppi (Swiss, 1893-1972) - Variation III, oil on canvas, 100.50 x 100.50 cm (1941)
my-pastel-paradise:Larry Rivers, ‘Fred Astaire’ (1986)
climacus:Alonso Cano (Granada, 1601 - 1667); Christ in the Limbo, c. 1665; oil on canvas, 120 x 167 cm; LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
mrkiki: Andy Hope 1930 SO DA TY, 2018 VIA MORE
climacus: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
blue-voids: Alina Szapocznikow - Illuminated Lips, 1966-68 “Born in Poland in 1926, she was interned in concentration camps while a teenager, a time she refused to discuss in later life. However, her casts of body parts and fragmented limbs speak
lionofchaeronea:Coronation of the Virgin, Paolo Veneziano, 1324
igormag:David Bomberg (1890-1957), Ghetto Theatre, 1920.
terminusantequem:Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922-1993), Woman by the Ocean, 1956. Oil on canvas, 200.7 × 149.9 cm
la-beaute–de-pandore: © Brian Flaherty
herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels:Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots, c. 1890. Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm.
italianartsociety: 22 November is the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia, an early Christian martyr memorably celebrated in fresco by Italian Baroque painter Domenichino. The artist was commissioned in 1612 by Cardinal Pierre Polet to decorate a chapel in the
girlsingreenfields: The Bare Necessities. Laetitia Casta photographed by Gilles Bensimon for Elle Magazine April 1998.
cristinarizziguelfi:Lost Words series.
theegoist:Edward Burra (English, 1905-1976) - The Elephant Lady, watercolour, ink, gouache and pencil, 57.00 x 76.50 cm (1952)
theegoist:John Wells (British, 1907–2000) - Structure In Oval, oil on canvas, 45.50 x 35.50 cm (1947)
amare-habeo: Nikolai Nikanorovich Dubovskoï (Russian, 1859- 1918) At the Lago Maggiore, 1895Oil on canvas, 26.8 x 34.8 cm
classic-art: Peasant with Hay Julien Dupré
italianartsociety: by Rachel Hiser Remmes Although The Presentation of the Virgin, which is celebrated on November 21st, was not a common narrative scene in medieval art, monumental programs were dedicated to other major moments in the Virgin’s life.
amare-habeo: Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese, born 1960) Pape, 2005 Oil on canvas, 300 × 300 cm
berndwuersching:Tenor valve trombone by Adolphe SaxBrass, white metal, corkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
thusreluctant:Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. 2 by Marsden Hartley
vodis: Sexy ChicVogue Deutsch January 2001ph. Ruven Afanador
lionofchaeronea: Self-Portrait as David with the Head of Goliath, Johan Zoffany, 1756
amare-habeo: Charles-Edouard Le Corbusier (Swiss-French, 1887 - 1965) Little Confidence, 1962 Wood and bronze.
thunderstruck9:Karl Hofer (German, 1878-1955), Jüngling mit Kopftuch [Young Man with a Head Scarf], c.1924. Oil on canvas, 111 x 80 cm.
sulphuriclike:Christiaen van CouwenberghVrouw met een mand met fruit, 1642Gemäldesammlung der Universität,Göttingen
sindiamantes: Love No.11 SS 2014 Lily McMenamy by Juergen Teller for at Urs Fischer exhibition