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bofransson: The Spire of Notre-Dame Robert Delaunay - circa 1909-1910
lyghtmylife: Hals, Frans [Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1582-1666]The Laughing Cavalier1624Oil on canvas86 x 69 cmThe Wallace Collection, London
tamburina: John Everett Millais
angrywhistler: John Sanchez
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 - 1946), Green bench (1928)
Max Liebermann (Berlin, 1847 - 1935) a) Tennis game by the sea, oil on canvas, 1901 b) Young boys bathing at Zandorf, oil on panel, 1896
poboh: A Spanish Good Friday (Ronda), 1925, Sir Muirhead Bone. Scottish (1876 - 1953)
transiberiana: Heidi Malott, End of the day
arsvitaest: “Lunch” Author: George Tooker (American, 1920-2011)Date: 1964 At a moment when segregated Southern lunch counters were being occupied by African American activists, often with violent consequences, Tooker’s Lunch depicted a black man
arsvitaest: “The Subway” Author: George Tooker (American, 1920-2011)Date: 1950Medium: Egg tempera on composition boardLocation: Whitney Museum of American Art
urgetocreate: Edvard Munch, Writer Hans Jaeger, 1889
poboh: Soldiers dashing across the Road, Gunner F.J. Mears. (ca 1890 - 1929)
artsandcrafts28: Autumn on the Thames James Tissot circa 1875
statuemania: The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (detail) by Master of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Austrian, prob. mid–17th century), Ivory, 1655 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
lyghtmylife: Cole, Thomas [English-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1801-1848] Genesee Scenery1847Oil on canvas51 x 39 in (129.5 x 99.1 cm)Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
ilovetocollectart: Max Beckmann - Still Life with Yellow Roses, 1937
kecobe: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian; 1696–1770)Abraham and the Three AngelsOil on canvas, ca. 1770Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
snowce: Thomas Dworzak, Tzumadinsky Rayon region, border town of Agvali, October, 2000
Jozef Simmler (1823 - 1868), Szlachcic z papuga (1859)
transiberiana: Federico Zandomeneghi - House, Montmartre
bofransson: Gunnar Larson
lyghtmylife: TIFFANY, Louis Comfort [American Art Nouveau Stained Glass Artist, 1848-1933] Au nouveaux cirque, Papa Chrysanthème1894-95Favrile glass, leaded, 120 x 85 cmMusée d’Orsay, Paris In 1894, in cooperation with the eminent Parisian art
classic-art: Virgin and Child Adriaen Isenbrant
poboh: Dombeleuchtung (Cathedral Illumination), 1930, August Sander. Germany (1876 - 1964)
classic-art: La Cathedrale de Chartres Camille Corot
neurosciencestuff: Research Points to Promising Treatment for Macular Degeneration Experiments show promising results for a drug that could lead to a lasting treatment for millions of Americans with macular degeneration. Researchers at the University
poboh: Market Porters, Covent Garden, Charles Keeping. English (1924 - 1988)
hellenismo: Δεκάτη Ἱσταμένου/ Δεκάτη Προτέρα, X day From today’s sunset: tenth day of Boedromion. “The cosmos is, as we have seen, the only one of its kind and unique (i.e. a Monad); next we discover that it is necessary
theories-of: Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto A philosopher holding a mirror
firsttimeuser: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich
lyghtmylife: MEDNYÁNSZKY, László Hungarian painter (b. 1852, Beckó, d. 1919, Wien) View of Dunajec1890-95Oil on canvas, 98 x 73 cmMagyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
artmastered: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge, c.1872-75
Nicholas Roerich (1874 - 1947), Book of dove (1922)
Lucian Grigorescu (1894 - 1965), Munci de primavara (springtime work), N/D
thorsteinulf: John Minton - The Entombment
lyghtmylife: GEERTGEN tot Sint Jans [Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1460-1490] The Tree of Jesse1480sOil on wood, 89 x 59 cmRijksmuseum, Amsterdam
poboh: The fair, Carel Weight. English (1908 - 1997)
Vittore Carpaccio (1472 - 1526), The Virgin reading (1505 - 1510 circa)
poboh: Maisons dans la campagne, Maurice de Vlaminck. French (1876 - 1958)
Piet Mondrian
ilovetocollectart: Arturo Tosi
amare-habeo: Richard Mandin (1909-2002) Portrait, 1946
André Derain (Chatou 1880 - Garches, Paris, 1954) A village (1912)
artmastered: Hans Memling, St Jerome, 1485-90
mucholderthen: Capillary Net of an Alveolusshowing the erythrocytes within the blood vessels. CREDIT: Oliver Meckes (via FEI)Scanning Electron MicroscopeMagnification: 1800x AlveolusAlveolus (plural: alveoli) is from the Latin word for “little cavity”
centuriespast: Lunardi’s Second Balloon Ascending from St George’s Fields, 1785 by Julius Caesar Ibbetson Date painted: 1785–1790 Oil on canvas, 52 x 62 cm Collection: Science Museum, London
italianartsociety: Italian painter and printmaker Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua, where he had served the Gonzaga dukes as court artist for almost half a century. Mantegna, one of the leading artists of the later Quattrocento, is
amare-habeo: Paul Klee (1879 -1940) - Choral and landscape (Choral und Landschaft), 1921 Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Swithzerland
David Maisel (b. 1961), picture taken from Terminal Mirage (2005), a series of aerial photographs of The Great Salt Lake (Utah) http://www.davidmaisel.com/default.asp
lostlilac: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
meeresstille: by Anthony Oliver
lyghtmylife: Modersohn-Becker, Paula (German Expressionist Painter 1876-1907) Still Life with Apples 1903 Oil on panel 63 x 73 cm. Nationalgalerie. Berlin, Germany
poboh: Lights Futurists (Road - Night 2) , 1918-1920, Roberto Iras Baldessari. Italian (1894-1965) Via
neurosciencestuff: Alzheimer’s: newly identified protein pathology impairs RNA splicing Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center have identified a previously unrecognized type of pathology in the
artmastered: Robert Motherwell, Ulysses, 1947
masterpiecedaily: Andrea del Sarto Holy Family 1520
Maurice de Vlaminck (Paris 1876 - Rueil-la-Gadelière, Eure-et-Loir, 1958), Poplars (1908)
look-log: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (1622-25)
museumuesum: Ned Vena Untitled, 2013 Polyurethane and rubber on linen, 72 x 1.5 inches
Robert Brackman (1898 - 1980), Girl from the village (1960)