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Jan Matejko (Krakow, 1838 - 1893); Rejtan - The Fall of Poland, 1866; oil on canvas, 487 x 282 cm; Warsaw, Royal Castle’s Museum view high resolution: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Rejtan_Upadek_Polski_Matejko.jpg?uselang=it
showmethe-monet: John Minton Street and Railway Bridge 1946
hipinuff: Viktor Popkov (Russian, 1932-1974), A couple(Двое), 1966. Oil on canvas, 150 х 200 cm, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
masterpiecedaily: Caravaggio Madonna di Loreto 1603-05
blastedheath: Emil Filla (Czech, 1882-1953), Still life, 1924. Oil on canvas, 105.5 x 75 cm.
Max Meldrum (Edinburgh 1875 - Kew, Victoria 1955); A Peasant of Pacé, 1908; oil on canvas
Nicolay Bogdanov-Belsky (Smolensk 1868 - Berlin 1945); Sunday Reading in Rural Schools, 1895; oil on canvas; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Andrea del Castagno (Castagno c. 1421 - Firenze 1457); Madonna col Bambino e i Santi (Madonna with Child and Saints), c. 1445; fresco, 212 x 290 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
blastedheath: Giorgio Morandi (Italian, 1890-1964), Natura morta, 1952. Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 45.4 cm.
Marguerite Gerard (Grasse 1761 - Paris 1837), The bather, N/D, oil on canvas
David Bomberg (Birmingham 1890 - London 1957); The Southeast Corner, Jerusalem; 1926, oil on canvas
bofransson: Jan Stanisławski - Chmury
neurosciencestuff: Image caption: MMP-9 controls onset of paralysis in ALS mice. Sections of muscle stained for nerve (green) and muscle (red); nerve-muscle contacts appear yellow. In the SOD1 mouse, muscles that move the eye (left) retain nerve contacts
Telemaco Signorini (Firenze, 1835 - 1901), Mattinata nei pressi dell'Arno (A morning by the Arno), 1868; oil on canvas
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Chemnitz 1884 - Berlin 1976); Wanderdüne am Haff (Sand dunes in the lagoon), 1947; oil on linen, 114 x 93 cm; Brücke-Museum, Berlin
poboh: Busy shopping street in Paris, Jan Korthals. Dutch (1916 - 1972)
bofransson: Stanisław Kamocki - Rural Landscape
lustforthemoonlight: Artillery, 1911 (by Maulleigh) Roger de La Fresnaye (French, 1885–1925)Oil on canvas 51 1/4 x 62 3/4 in. (130.2 x 159.4 cm)Gift of Florene M. Schoenborn, 1991 (1991.397) Painted three years before the outbreak of World War I,
Diego Velazquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660); Triumph of Bacchus, 1628; oil on canvas, 227 x 165 cm; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Alfred Henry Maurer (New York City 1868 - 1932); Carrousel, 1901; oil on canvas; Brooklyn Museum
bighousediary: Ukraine
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thegetty: A woman is brought to Christ after she is caught in the act of committing adultery. The people ask if she should be stoned, and Christ stoops to the ground and writes a message in the sand. “He that is without sin among you, let him
David McClure (Lochwinnoch 1926 - Dundee 1998); Bathers beside the Sea, 1952
bonjourtableau: Le Concert champêtre, 1857, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Musée Condé
cavetocanvas: Juan Gris, Three Lamps, 1910-11
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri called il Domenichino; Bologna 1581 - Napoli 1641); Diana e le sue Ninfe (Diana and her Nymphs), 1617; oil on canvas, 320 x 225 cm; Roma, Galleria Borghese
A. Y. Jackson (Alexander Young Jackson; Montreal, Quebec, 1882 - Kleinburg, Ontario, 1974); The entrance to Halifax Harbour, 1919, oil on canvas
Matthias Grünewald (Würzburg, ca. 1480 – Halle, 1528); Christ carrying the Cross, c. 1523-24; oil on wood, 152 x 193 cm; Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
italianartsociety: Renato Guttuso died on this day in Rome in 1987. He was 75. Born near Palermo, Guttuso started painting working for a family friend decorating carts with images of the Norman conquest of Sicily. He studied under Futurist Pippo Rizzo
Franz von Lenbach (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, 1836 - Munich 1904); Portrait of Marion Lenbach, 1901; oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum
Max Ernst (Brühl 1891 - Paris 1976); The fashinating Cypress, 1939; oil on canvas
uncertaintimes: Eliot Porter, Cirio Near Las Tres Virgenes Volcano, Baja California, 1966 metmuseum.org
yama-bato: Jean Metzinger, Woman in Lace, 1916
Georges Rouault (Paris, 1871 - 1958), Young Jesus with the Doctor, 1893; watercolour and gouache on paper, 52 x 64 cm
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Iacopo called il Rosso Fiorentino; Firenze 1495 - Fountainebleau 1540); Assunzione della Vergine (Assumption of the Virgin), 1517; fresco, 385 x 337 cm; Chiostrino dei Voti, Firenze
blastedheath: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Stillleben mit Lampe [Still life with lamp], c.1911. Oil on canvas, 95 x 95 cm.
blastedheath: Marie-François Firmin-Girard (French, 1838-1921), The Glass Blowers in Incheville près Eu. Oil on canvas, 73 x 59.6 cm.
athousandwinds: A Ride Along the Avenue des Champs-Elysées by Guiseppe de Nittis, Italian, 1846-1884.
artmastered: Vittore Carpaccio, The Ambassadors Depart, 1495-1500
anticorporeal: Paul Graham A1 - The Great North Road (1981-1982)
Carel Willink (Amsterdam, 1900 - 1983), Portrait of Sylvia Quiel, 1975
gacougnol: Berenice AbbottLight Tubes nd
bestiario: Baselitz
Carl Blechen (Cottbus 1798 - Berlin 1840); Stormy Weather over the Roman Campagna, 1829; oil on board, 28 x 45 cm; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Emil Orlik (Prague 1870 - Berlin 1932); Seenplatte bei Berlin, 1925; oil on cardboard, 66 x 54 cm
artmastered: Renato Guttuso, Santa Panagia (Sicily), 1956
dappledwithshadow: Desnudo, Ramon Casas 1903
Salvator Rosa (Napoli 1615 - Roma 1673); Pitagora e il pescatore (Pythagoras and the fisherman), 1662; oil on canvas, 188 x 132 cm; Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin
amare-habeo: Léon Spilliaert (1881 - 1946) - Fisherwomen and a young girl (Femmes de pêcheus et jeune fille), 1926 Gouache and colour
Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879 - 1953), Farm at La Petite Mare, 1907; oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Palma il Vecchio (Jacopo Negretti called Palma il Vecchio; Serina, Bergamo, 1480 - Venezia 1528); Diana e Callisto, 1525-28; oil on panel, 124 x 78 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna enlarge
alongtimealone: christopher wood from: lawrence lee magnusson
lyghtmylife: Gustav Klimt (Austrian; Art Nouveau, 1862-1918 Lady with a Muff (Dame mit Muff), 1916 Oil on canvas
bofransson: Robert Mason (b. 1946) The stole and the mask
Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1488-90 - Venezia 1576); Il supplizio di Marsia (The flaying of Marsyas), c. 1570; oil on canvas, 212 x 207 cm; National Museum, Kroměříž, Czech Republic
Thomas Eakins (Philadelphia, 1844 - 1916); Mending the net, 1881; oil on canvas, 81 x 107 cm; Philadelphia Museum of Art
lyghtmylife: Egon Schiele (Austrian, Expressionism, 1890-1918) Field of Flowers, 1910 Black chalk, gouache and gold bronze paint on paper Private Collection
arcadiainteriorana: Hammersmith BridgeRuskin Spear (British, 1911–1990) Oil on board, 80 x 65 cm.Government Art Collection.
Theo van Rysselberghe (Ghent 1862 - Saint-Clair 1926); The sisters of the painter Schlobach, 1884; oil on canvas; Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Liège (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège)
![blastedheath: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Stillleben mit Lampe [Still life with lamp], c.1911. Oil on canvas, 95 x 95 cm.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/097d25f3f5f018b7280a17bab429a714/tumblr_mzeggnnnr41rv7wcro1_250.jpg)
