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canforasoap: Bartolomé Bermejo (Spanish, about 1440 - about 1501), ‘Descent of Christ into Limbo’, about 1470–5, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona “ This is one of four scenes which formed the predella of an altarpiece. Arranged in
thisblueboy:Hans Memling (German born c.1433 - 1489 Flanders), Flowers in a Jug, circa 1485, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
canforasoap:Sam Jinks (Australian, born 1973), Reunion (detail), 2017. Silicone, resin, calcium carbonate, fibreglass and human hair
Ludovico Carracci (Italian, 1555 - 1619)Saint Sebastian thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, 1612, Oil on canvas163.5 × 232.4 cm (64 3/8 × 91 ½ in.), 72.PA.14The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
canforasoap: Norval Morriseau (1932-2007), Androgyny, 1983. Acrylic on canvas, 366 x 610 cm. Aboriginal Art Collection, Gatineau, Québec Norval Morrisseau, also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Indigenous Canadian artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi
Piero di Cosimo (Italian, 1462-1522), The young Saint John the Baptist, 1480-82; tempera and oil on wood panel, 29.2 x 23.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
amare-habeo: Vasili Ivanovich Shukhaev (Russian, 1887-1973) Finnish Village, Roofs, 1920 Oil on canvas via fravery
koredzas:Master of Saint John and Saint Stephen - Saint John the Baptist and Saint Stephen. 1450
thunderstruck9:Charlotte Beaudry (Belgian, b. 1968), Étourneau sansonnet [Starlings]. Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm.
theegoist:Kurt Seligmann (Swiss-American, 1900-1962) - Le Combat (de Tancrède et de Clorinde), Oil on panel, 180.0 × 115.0 cm (1934)
Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596 - 1669), Madonna with the Child, Saint Catherine and Saint John (before 1620); oil on canvas, 140 x 210 cm; Musei Capitolini, Roma
thunderstruck9:Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982), Cuenca, 1928. Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 70.8 cm.
climacus:Diego Velazquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660); Retrato del bufon Don Diego de Acedo “El Primo” (Portrait of the buffoon Don Diego de Acedo called ‘El Primo’), 1644; oil on canvas, 107 x 82 cm; Museo
thatsbutterbaby: Olivier Debré (Paris, 1920 - 1999), Jardin du noir, 1960. Oil on canvas.
canforasoap: Pieter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), Saturn (Kronos) devours one of his Sons, between 1636 and 1638. Oil on canvas, 180 x 87 cm; Museo del Prado “ But Rhea was subject in love to Cronos and bore splendid children, Hestia, Demeter,
Franz Xaver Fuhr (German, 1898-1973), Stadt im Licht (City in the light), about 1964-68; oil on fiberboard, 80 x 70 cm
amare-habeo: Gino Severini (Italian, 1883 - 1966) The Painter’s Family, N/D
canforasoap:Julia Ormond, The Baby of Mâcon (1993) by Peter Greenaway
classic-art: Silver Wine Jug, Ham and Fruit Abraham van Beyeren, c. 1660-1666
canforasoap:Philip Pearlstein (American, born 1924), Two Models with Peruvian Medicine Man, 2011. Oil on Canvas, 152 x 122 cm
Sandow Birk (American, born 1962), The Triumph of Fear, 2017; Acrylic on canvas, 116.8 x 137.2 cm. Courtesy P·P·O·W Gallery, New York
Sultan Muhammad (Persian, 1470-1555), Mi'rāj (Ascent of Muhammad to Heaven), 1539-1543. Miniature from Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa (Five Poems), opaque watercolour and ink on paper, 28.7 x 18.6 cm; British Library, London “Islam disapproves of all
canforasoap:Various Artists (Coppo di Marcovaldo, Cimabue, Meliore, Maestro della Maddalena, Andrea Tafi among them), Mosaic ceiling (started 1270 - completed around 1300); Dome of the Florence Baptistery
theegoist:Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991) - Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60, Oil on paperboard, 17.8 × 23.8 cm (1960)
ilovetocollectart: Egon Schiele - Portrait Of Johann Harms, 1916. Oil with wax on canvas / (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Partial gift, Dr. and Mrs. Otto Kallir, 1969)
Elizabeth Peyton (American, born 1965), Spencer walking, 2001; oil on board, 31 x 23.5 cm; Philadelphia Museum of Art
thunderstruck9:Jonas Wood (American, b. 1977), Euphronios 5, 2007. Gouache and colored pencil on paper, 56.3 x 52.5 cm.
oncanvas: Où naissent les cardinaux (Where the Cardinals are Born), Max Ernst, 1962 oil on canvas 57.5 x 45 in. (146 x 114.5 cm)
thunderstruck9:Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Head, 1927. Oil and chalk on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago
oncanvas: Quintilia Fischieri, Federico Barocci, circa 1600 oil on canvas123.8 x 95.3 cm (48 ¾ x 37 ½ in.)National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
canforasoap: Rembrandt (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669), Self-Portrait with Two Circles (between 1665 and 1669); oil on canvas, 114 x 94; Kenwood House, London (The Age of Rembrandt: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting. Pennsylvania State
Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, 1465-1526), Crocifissione dei Diecimila Martiri sul monte Ararat (Crucifixion of 10,000 Martyrs at Mount Ararat), 1515; oil on canvas, 307 x 205 cm; Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
climacus:Tiziano Vecellio (1490-1576), St Margaret and the Dragon, ca. 1565; oil on canvas, 209 x 183 cm; Museo del Prado
canforasoap:Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), The Birth, 2007. Gouache on paper. © Collection The Easton Foundation
showmethe-monet: David Bomberg Study for ‘Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company Hill 60, St Eloi’ 1918-19
koredzas:Quentin Massys - Virgin in Adoration. 1507
redlipstickresurrected:Karin Mamma Andersson aka Mamma Andersson (Swedish, b. 1962 Luleå, Sweden) - Dollhouse, 2008 Paintings: Oil on Panel (In three parts)
livingtrophies:Chen Daquing Chen Danqing (Chinese-American, born 1953), Leather Shoes and Leather Boots, 1987, oil on canvas, 22 ⅛ × 27 ⅝ inches (56 × 70 cm) © Chen Danqing
thunderstruck9:Raimonds Staprans (Latvian/American, b. 1926), Untitled, 1979. Oil on canvas, 71.4 x 86.7 cm.
Tiziano Vecellio (1488/1490 - 1576), David and Goliath, 1542-44; oil on canvas, 300 x 285 cm; Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
museumuesum: Peter Bialobrzeski Paradise Now, 2009 C-Prints, 126 x 160 cm each Paradise Now presents fragments of nature—some of them mise en scène, others untouched by urban growth—on the periphery of the artificially illuminated infrastructure
koredzas:Master of the Female Half-Lengths - Portrait of a Young Woman. 1550
theegoist:Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953) - Au Thé Tre, oil on canvas, 117.00 x 89.00 cm (1935)
lionofchaeronea:St. Thomas, Georges de la Tour (1593-1652)
Domenico Gnoli (Italian, 1933-1970), Due Dormienti (Two Sleepers), 1966. Acrylic and sand on canvas, 98 x 127 cm. Fondazione Orsi“Domenico Gnoli’s last and celebrated New York show debuted in 1969 at the influential Sidney Janis Gallery. A year
Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), Diana, 1867; oil on canvas, 200 x 130 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
koredzas:Follower of Agnolo Bronzino - Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John. 1540 - 1560
yesmaybe:Unbuttoned Button, 1969Domenico Gnoli
collageoftheweek: Ad Reinhardt, Collage 1940
Alessandro Allori (Italian, 1535-1607), The Descent from the Cross, ca. 1550; oil on copperplate, 70 x 54 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid
Correggio (Antonio Allegri da Correggio, 1489-1534); Assumption of the Virgin, completed between 1524-1530; fresco, 1195 x 1093 cm; Dome of the Cathedral of Parma, Italy
canforasoap:Louise Bourgeois (French, 1911-2010), SPIRAL, 2009 - Gouache on paper, suite of 4 - 45.7 x 59.7 cm; Cheim & Read Gallery
poboh:Station in the Forest, 1960, Paul Delvaux. Belgian (1897 - 1994)
terresauvage: Arthur Lismer Forest Green Wall, 1951 Arthur Lismer’s first trip to Vancouver Island was in 1951 when he went west for the close of his cross-Canada retrospective exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater
Valentin de Boulogne (French, active in Rome, 1591-1632), Christ and the Adulteress, about 1620s; oil on canvas, 167 x 221 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum
classic-art: A Drawbridge in a Dutch Town Jacob Henricus Maris, c. 1875
arsvitaest:Carlos Morago (Spanish, b. 1954), Corredor, 2008via iamjapanese
eyes-in-the-heat:Florian Krewerrawhide2017Oil on canvas229.9 × 269.9 cm
kundst: Hans Holbein (Ger. 1497-1543) Sir John Godsalve (c. 1533)
canforasoap:Renato Guttuso (1911-1987)
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