Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022080362eac12c74f67 For this year’s Art of the Day, we hope to present more non-European and non-American art. So today let’s take a look at a man’s cape found near the town of Paracas from Peru. The ornate cape showcases 55 “bird-mimicking” figures with elaborate wings, fringed cloaks, headdresses and snake ornaments, holding ceremonial […]
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022080362eac08fcc521 In December 1908, Elizabeth Cabot married Henry Lyman, a Harvard-trained physician. Within a year, the couple moved to 36 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston’s Back Bay. Here, Tarbell presents life around Elizabeth, as well as her elite family status. She was dressed in pure white, wrapped in a pink scarf, and her hands
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072862e2b81a3ebd2 We continue our trip to the Netherlands with one of the country’s most famous masterpieces. Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid is astonishingly hallucinogenic, conveying not only the details but also the weight of the woman and the table. Through it, we start a thematic month of the Rijksmuseum collection. Please enjoy! ? A
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072862e2aa2b59184 Today we move to the beautiful Netherlands. This painting shows the interior of the Buurkerk church in Utrecht. There were several Dutch artists at the time who specialized in painting church interiors, but Pieter Jansz. Saenredam was especially innovative. He exaggerated the effect: here, he stretched the height of the columns to
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072862e2a891cf830 Herod’s Feast refers to the episode in the Gospels after the beheading of St. John the Baptist, when Salome dedicates his head to her parents. The Gospel of Mark records that King Herod held a banquet on his birthday for his high officials and military generals, as well as for the leaders
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072862e2a178f3bbe Today we show…a huge portrait of a horse. The Whistlejacket (the name of the horse) is one of the most famous horses in art history. He belongs to the Marquis of Rockingham. Horse artist George Stubbs painted him life-size, standing against a plain background. In 1762 Stubbs was invited by Rockingham to
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072862e29ae440743 This work was part of William Blake’s Large Book of Designs , printed in 1796 for the miniature painter Ozias Humphrey. In Black’s mythology, Albion was the primitive man whose fall and division resulted in the four Zoas: Urizen, Thamas, Luvah/Orc, and Urthona/Los. The name is derived from the ancient and mythical
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072062d813d4306f5 Here Caravaggio tells a story from the New Testament: On the third day of Jesus’ crucifixion, two disciples came to Emmaus and met the risen Christ, But they didn’t recognize him. So at supper that day, Christ “… took bread, gave blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072062d812b168007 After being educated at the Academy of Antwerp, Emile Claus practiced a traditional, socially inspired style of realism for about a decade. From 1883 he established his studio in the village of Astner near Ghent, where he lived for many years. The views of Claude Monet and his colleagues (whose work Claus
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072062d8115b85cac This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch Golden Age, created by Johannes Vermeer, one of the most famous artists in the world. Intertwined with light and dark, clouds and mist, and subtle reflections in the water, this is definitely a masterpiece. We are enjoying the view of Delft from the
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072062d8165729893 Hello September! Georges Seurat, the inventor of Pointillism, is known for creating lively compositions using short, unmixed, intensely coloured brushstrokes. In this work, you can see farm buildings and houses in the distance through a field of alfalfa, interspersed with red poppies. It is part of the vast plain that separated Paris
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072062d80f0bc0016 It’s the last day of August, and it’s time for something delightful, summer-like in the coming fall. : ) Paul Cézanne, without the artist Cubism would never have been born, worked for seven years on the classic art-historical subject of The Bather. Although “The Bather” is clearly related to the work of
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022072062d80ada8dc73 Karl Friedrich Schinkel was Prussia’s foremost architect, town planner and painter. From 1798 to 1800 he studied architecture in Berlin with Friedrich Gilly and his father. After traveling in Italy, he started working as an independent painter in 1805. One of Germany’s most famous architects, he created neoclassical and neo-Gothic architecture, mainly