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Herbert DRAPER
[English Classicist Painter, 1863-1920]
Mourning for Icarus, 1898
oil on canvas](http://25.media.tumblr.com/eb6b2a047cfe07033535d181d5202ba8/tumblr_mgwfoidBuE1r29g9xo1_1280.jpg)
[English Classicist Painter, 1863-1920]
Mourning for Icarus, 1898
oil on canvas
My thoughts
In Image, Sound, and (Occasional) Word Ask me anything
In Image, Sound, and (Occasional) Word Ask me anything
January 19, 2013
January 19, 2013
January 13, 2013
January 12, 2013
Benjamin Robert Haydon, The Anti Slavery Society Convention 1840 (1841)
January 11, 2013
Still Life with Young Girl Reading. Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (Danish, Post-Impressionism, 1863–1935). Oil on board. Connaught Brown.
While Holsoe’s airy brushwork evokes a sense of space, his also shows the magical pure light of the long Scandinavian summer days. In ‘Girl Reading’ the white muslin curtain increases the glowing intensity of the sunlight, producing a radiant warmth as the woman sits, happily absorbed in her book. This is a combination of luminous domesticity and meditative calm.
January 9, 2013
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QUADAL, Martin Ferdinand
[Moravian Painter, 1736-1808]
Life Class in the Vienna Academy (detail)1787Oil on canvasAkademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna](http://24.media.tumblr.com/8c5f26419aadd280d9e46b70195a93f0/tumblr_mgdwli9bu01r29g9xo1_1280.jpg)
[Moravian Painter, 1736-1808]
Life Class in the Vienna Academy (detail)
1787
Oil on canvas
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
January 9, 2013
(French Impressionist Painter 1861-1932)
Avenue de Clichy - Five O’Clock in the Evening
1887
Oil on canvas, 69 x 54 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
January 9, 2013
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BÖCKLIN, Arnold
[Swiss Symbolist Painter, 1827-1901]Roger and Angelica1871-74Tempera on panel, 44 x 36 cmNationalgalerie, Berlin](http://24.media.tumblr.com/cd7b9c80a7227efaba9fb57564e0d5e7/tumblr_mgdxtm6Uad1r29g9xo1_1280.jpg)
[Swiss Symbolist Painter, 1827-1901]
Roger and Angelica
1871-74
Tempera on panel, 44 x 36 cm
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
January 9, 2013
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Mezzetin, c.1718-20, oil on canvas, 21.75”x17”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Beneath the pretty, there is always sadness…
January 9, 2013
January 8, 2013
January 8, 2013
December 28, 2012
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Manuel Domínguez Sánchez - Seneca’s Suicide [1871] by Gandalf’s Gallery on Flickr.
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez - Seneca’s Suicide [1871]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/669c3c80fead0fdb966284132d086815/tumblr_mfrs1dMjYt1rxauzbo1_1280.jpg)
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez - Seneca’s Suicide [1871] by Gandalf’s Gallery on Flickr.
Manuel Domínguez Sánchez - Seneca’s Suicide [1871]
December 21, 2012
Jeune Le Cafe de Paris. Jean Béraud (French, Impressionism, 1849–1935). Oil on canvas.
Béraud had an exceptional eye for detail, enhanced by the advent of photography. This vision imbued his portrayals of daily Parisian life with subtlety and elegance. He remained in his beloved, flamboyant Belle Époque city while his Impressionist contemporaries moved to the country. Béraud would often sequester himself in a taxicab to paint candid images of unsuspecting passersby and mundane, everyday activities.
December 19, 2012
The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (ca. 1648) by Claude Lorrain
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