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Robert Motherwell (Aberdeen, Washington, 1915 - Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1991); Elegy to the Spanish Republic n. 133 (1975)
peira: Raymond Breinin: Girl in Costume (1938-1940)
thorsteinulf: Joseph Mallord William Turner - Seascape with a Boat (c.1835)
hadrian6: Still Life with dead game birds. 1675. Willem Van Aelst. Dutch 1627-1683. oil /canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
blastedheath: Leopold Hauer (Austrian, 1896-1984), Light clouds over a dark landscape. Oil on canvas, laid down on hardboard, 30.5 x 36 cm.
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
Jan Steen (Leiden, 1626 - 1679); The Village School, c. 1670; oil on canvas; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Eugenio De Blaas (also known as Eugene de Blaas, Eugene von Blaas, etc.; Albano Laziale 1843 - Venezia 1931); Pulcinella in convento (Punch Puppet at the convent), n/d; oil on canvas, private collection
poboh: Ponte della Paglia ( Marble Bridge), Maurice Prendergast. American (1858 - 1924)
neurosciencestuff: Image caption: New details about how motor neurons die in ALS have been uncovered by a new cell-culture system that combines spinal cord or brain cells from ALS patients with human motor neurons. The culture system shows that patient
amare-habeo: Jean Brusselmans (1884 - 1953) - Evening effect (Effet de soir), 1905
saloandseverine: Oskar Schlemmer, costumes for the Triadic Ballet, 1924
poboh: A Chef Reading A Letter, Germain Theodore Ribot. French (1845 - 1893)
blastedheath: Emilio Scanavino (Italian, 1922-1986), Pittura n. 3, 1971. Oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm.
poplifeplus: Cecil Beaton - Gertrude Stein - 1936
thisblueboy: Valentin de Boulogne (Coulommiers, Siene-et-Marne, France 1591-1632 Rome, A Concert, ca.1628, Louvre Museum
chimneyfish: Bomb Falling Into Water, 1942 Leonard Rosoman
Carel Fabritius (Beemster 1622 - Delft 1654); The raising of Lazarus, 1643, oil on canvas; Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (Warsaw
Adolph von Menzel (Breslau 1815 - Berlin 1905); Market in Winter, 1862; gouache and colored chalk on paper, 26 x 32 cm; Stiftung Staadtmuseum, Berlin
poboh: Sunset, Down the High Street, Canterbury, 1922, Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. (1845-1932)
masterpiecedaily: Jan van Bijlert The Concert 1635-40
neurosciencestuff: Pinpointing the Brain’s Arbitrator We tend to be creatures of habit. In fact, the human brain has a learning system that is devoted to guiding us through routine, or habitual, behaviors. At the same time, the brain has a separate
athousandwinds: Winter Landscape, 1838, oil on canvas by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch, 1803-1862. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Koekkoek was one of the most important landscape painters of his generation. He was commissioned by world leaders of
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susanzweig: Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Annette Roussel with a Broken Chair, 1900
Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560 - Roma 1609); San Rocco e l'Angelo (St. Roch and the Angel), c. 1587; oil on canvas, 81 cm x 62 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
amare-habeo: Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) Still-life with the Blue Orchid (Stilleben mit blauen Orchideen), 1938 Oil on canvas Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
blastedheath: John Piper (British, 1903-1992), View of Hurst Castle from Keyhaven, Hampshire, c.1949. Gouache on paper, 7 x 9½ in.
Carlo Saraceni (Venezia, 1579 - 1620), Il Diluvio Universale (The Deluge), c. 1610; oil on canvas, 92 x 117 cm
Anselm Kiefer (Donaueschingen, Baden-Wurttenberg, 1945); Die Meistersinger, 1981; oil, emulsion and sand on photograph mounted on canvas
Ken Davies (New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1925); Pop Art Trompe (Beer Can), c. 1958; oil on canvas
neurosciencestuff: Image caption: Stem cells in the cortex of a mouse embryo (cell nuclei: blue). © MPI f. Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics/ D. Stenzel Brain development - the pivotal role of the stem cell environment Higher mammals, such as humans,
Jean-Frédéric Schall (Strasbourg 1752 - Paris 1825); Portrait of Christine Boyer, c. 1800; oil on canvas, 54 x 44 cm; Musée Magnin, Dijon
les-sources-du-nil: Keith Carter Boy with Bee, 1990
artmastered: Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract, c.1960-61
twofacedmirror: Jais Nielsen, 1917 (Danish, 1885 - 1961) bio
Emil Nolde (Nolde, near Tondern, 1867 - Seebüll, Schleswig, 1956); The Entombment, 1915; oil on canvas, 117 cm x 86 cm
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; Milano 1571 - Porto Ercole 1610) a) The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1598, oil on canvas (135 x 104 cm); Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze b) The Sacrifice of Isaac [uncertain attribution], 1597-99, oil on canvas (173
artmastered: George Bellows, Kids, 1906
artistsandnudes: John Nava, Artist and Model
art-and-fury: To Beauty - Otto Dix
bonjourtableau: Les Comédiens italiens (The Italian comedians), 1719-20, Antoine Watteau, National Galery of Art
Philip Alexius de László (Budapest, 1869 – London, 1937); Miss Olive Trouton, 1910; oil on board, 70 x 90 cm; private collection
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Blåkrog, 1783 – Copenaghen, 1853 The Cloisters - San Lorenzo fuori le mura, 1824; oil on canvas; Art Institute of Chicago
poboh: An afternoon stroll, Paul-Emmanuel Peraire. French (1829 - 1893)
hadrian6: Portrait of an old Man with bust. 17th.century. Johann Karl Loth. German 1632-1698. oil /canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
artistkrieg: Giovanni Fattori
the-faces-of-art: Peder Severin Krøyer, portrait of Marie Krøyer [his wife, born Marie Triepke], 1890 (x)
poplifeplus: James Rosenquist painting in his studio 1967
currentsinbiology: CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) protein expression in well-differentiated human bronchial epithelial cultures. Well-differentiated cultures derived from human bronchial epithelial tissues were immunostained
Jacob van Loo (Sluis, Bruges, 1614 - Paris 1670); Bacchic Scene, 1653; oil on canvas, 55 x 63 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
lyghtmylife: TELEPY, Károly Hungarian painter (b. 1828, Debrecen, d. 1906, Budapest) Carthusian Monastery in the Vicinity of Romec. 1858Oil on canvas, 65 x 45 cmMagyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
vizualvocabulary: Eberhard Havekost Mobile 1 2002 Oil on Canvas
fleurdulys: Blue Roofs - Jean Helion 1958
Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis called il Pordenone; 1484 Pordenone - 1539 Ferrara); Storie della Passione (Stories of the Passion of Christ), 1520-21, fresco; Duomo di Cremona
thirdorgan: Olga Rozanova (Russian, 1886-1918), Color Composition, 1917. Oil on canvas.
kecobe: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian; 1696–1770)Apollo Pursuing Daphne Oil on canvas, 1755–60 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As when th’ impatient greyhound slipt from far, Bounds o’er the glebe to course the fearful hare, She
lawrenceleemagnuson: Paisaje de Ceret Joaquim Sunyer, Spain 1874-1956
lyghtmylife: QUELLINUS, Artus I Flemish sculptor (b. 1609, Antwerpen, d. 1668, Antwerpen) The Judgment of Brutus: Justice1651-54TerracottaRijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Ron Milewicz (Brooklyn, New York 1963); Blackout, 2004