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HODLER, Ferdinand (1853-1918) Historical Writer

2009-03-04T01:52:00.002+02:00

Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss, 1853-1918
Study

Original photo

SAVRASOV Alexei Spring Day, 1873

2009-03-04T01:47:00.000+02:00

Oil on canvas, 95 х 140 cm, The Vladimir Suzdal History, Art and Architecture Museum, Vladimir, Russia

icerocket tags: savrasov, spring, day, 1800, landscape, melting, birds, trees

SAVRASOV Alexei The Rooks Have Come, 1871

2009-03-04T01:44:00.001+02:00

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov, Russian, 1830-1897. The lyrical landscape

Oil on canvas, 62 х 49 cm, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

icerocket tags: savrasov, rooks, birds, trees, landscape, 1800

SIMONE MARTINI Maestà (detail)1315

2009-03-04T01:42:00.001+02:00

Fresco, 99 x 85 cm (size of detail) Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

Maestà, the Italian word for "majesty", designates an iconic formula of the enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus , whether or not accompanied with angels and saints. The Maestà is an extension of the "Seat of Wisdom" theme of the seated "Mary Theotokos", "Mary Mother of God", which is a counterpart to the earlier icon of Christ in Majesty, the enthroned Christ that is familiar in Byzantine mosaics.

icerocket tags: simone martini, maesta, madonna, majesty, 1300

CRANACH, Lucas the Elder A Princess of Saxony 1517

2009-03-04T01:39:00.001+02:00

Lucas Cranach the Elder, German, 1472-1553

Mixed media on limewood, 43.4 x 34.3 cm (17 1/8 x 13 1/2 in), National Gallery of Art, Washington

Larger Another version (copyright)

icerocket tags: cranach, princess, saxony, 1500, child, portrait

CRANACH, Lucas A Prince of Saxony 1517

2009-03-04T01:36:00.001+02:00

Oil on wood, 43,6 × 34,5 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington

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icerocket tags: cranach, prince, saxony, 1500, child, portrait

MANTEGNA, Andrea San Zeno Polyptych (detail) 1457-60

2009-03-04T01:24:00.002+02:00

Edited version
From the central panel, middle section. Tempera on panel, 220 x 115 cm. San Zeno, Verona

Detail of the madonna

icerocket tags: mantegna, san zeno, polyptych, 1400, angel, longing

RAFFAELLO Sanzio Head of a Man 1504

2009-03-04T01:20:00.001+02:00

Original photo

Black chalk on paper, 25,5 × 19 cm, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London

icerocket tags: 1500, berthold, drawing, head, man, old, raffaello, sorrow, raphael, tired, hurt

CRIVELLI, Carlo Madonna with child (detail) c1470

2009-03-03T23:52:00.002+02:00

Original photo Another version

Madonna con bambino. Fragment of an altar in the Chiesa degli Osservanti in Macerata. Tempera on wood, transferred to canvas, 61.9 x 41 cm, Museo delle Carrozze, Macerata.

icerocket tags: 1400, faces, crivelli, madonna, mother, cheek, close

CAROTO, Giovanni Francesco Red-headed Youth Holding a Drawing (detail) ca. 1515

2009-03-03T23:46:00.001+02:00

Original photo Another version (copyright)

Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter, ca.1480-1555. Veronese school

Young Boy holding a Child's Drawing. Oil on panel, 37 x 29 cm (14 9/16 x 11 3/8 in.), Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

icerocket tags: caroto, red-headed, youth, boy, face, child, drawing, 1500, smiling, amused, joker

CRIVELLI, Carlo Dead Christ supported by Two Angels (detail) 1470-5

2009-03-03T23:41:00.002+02:00

Another version. Original photo

Egg tempera on poplar, 72.4 x 55.2 cm., National Gallery, London

This picture originally formed the upper part of an altarpiece in the Franciscan church at Montefiore dell'Aso near Fermo (in the Marches). A Virgin and Child from the original polyptych is now in the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

icerocket tags: 1400, angels, christ, crivelli, faces, pieta, supported, sorrow

CRIVELLI, Carlo Triptych of Camerino (detail) 1482

2009-03-03T23:30:00.001+02:00

Original photo Whole triptych
From the left panel representing Peter Martyr and Venanzio.
Tempera on panel, 170 x 60 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

icerocket tags: 1400, camerino, crivelli, hand, power, story, adalheim, town, triptych

CRIVELLI, Carlo Annunciation with St Emidius (detail) 1486

2009-03-03T23:25:00.001+02:00

Other details 1) 2) 3) Whole painting

Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 207 x 146,5 cm, National Gallery, London

icerocket tags: crivelli, annunciation, saint, emidus, 1400, bird, animal, peacock, carpet

SCHJERFBECK, Helene Profile of a Girl, 1887

2008-12-31T20:35:00.003+02:00

Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish, 1862-1946. Naturalism, realism and expressionism

Oil on canvas, laid down on cardboard , 26.6 cm (10.47 in.) x 23.5 cm (9.25 in.) Private collection

More Helene Schjerfbeck paintings

icerocket tags: schjerfbeck, profile, girl, 1800, face, child

STRINDBERG, August The Town, 1903

2008-12-31T17:52:00.002+02:00

August Strindberg, Swedish, 1849-1912

Staden. Hägring
Oil on canvas, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

icerocket tags: 1900, clouds, landscape, mirage, sea, sky, strindberg, town, sweden, threat, thunder

ENCKELL, Magnus The Raising 1894

2008-12-31T16:33:00.004+02:00

Another version

Magnus Enckell, Finnish, 1870-1925. Septem. Symbolism

Uppvaknandet. Heräävä
Oil on canvas, 113,00 cm x 85,50 cm, Ateneum, Finland

icerocket tags: enckell, raising, 1800, boy, child, finland, hariberth

MEMLING, Hans St John Altarpiece (St. John the Evangelist) 1474-79

2008-12-31T16:00:00.001+02:00

How can I tell you what really happened?

Oil on oak panel, 173,6 x 173,7 cm (central), 176 x 78,9 cm (each wing)
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges
Whole altarpiece

icerocket tags: memling, john, saint, evangelist, 1400, hariberth, writing, book, apocalypse, vision, imagination

MEMLING, Hans Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove 1487

2008-12-31T15:57:00.001+02:00

Oil on oak panel, 52 x 41,5 cm
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Hands Another version

icerocket tags: memling, diptych, nieuwenhove, 1400, face, book, hands, portrait

HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger Portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1527

2008-12-31T15:49:00.001+02:00

Oil on oak, 82 x 67 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

icerocket tags: holbein, warham, archbishop, canterbury, 1500, portrait, face

ORLEY, Bernaert van Joris van Zelle 1519

2008-12-31T15:46:00.000+02:00

Oil on oak, 39 x 32 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

icerocket tags: orley, zelle, 1500, books, writing, pen, hands, portrait

Safavid Iran, Woman With a Spray of Flowers, ca1575 AD

2008-12-31T15:43:00.001+02:00

Safavid Dynasty, Iran

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 30,9 x 20,3 cm, the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C

icerocket tags: safavid, iran, woman, tree, flowers, 1500

EN Xiong Ten Thousand Scenes of Taihu River No.4 circa 1850

2008-12-31T15:40:00.000+02:00

Ren Xiong, Chinese, 1823-57

Late Qing dynasty. Ren belonged to the "Shanghai school" in Chinese painting and is known for his bold and innovative style.

icerocket tags: ren xiong, scenes, taihu, river, 1800, china

REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn The Archangel Leaving the Family of Tobias, 1637

2008-12-31T15:38:00.000+02:00

Oil on wood,2 66 x 52 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

icerocket tags: rembrandt, archangel, tobias, leaving, family, flying, 1600, angel

REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Bathsheba at Her Bath, 1654

2008-12-31T15:31:00.001+02:00

Oil on canvas, 142 x 142 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

icerocket tags: rembrandt, bathsheba, bath, servant, feet, 1600

Grandes Chroniques de France, folio 238v, Philip II and Richard I accepting the keys to Acre, 14th century

2008-12-31T15:28:00.000+02:00

The Siege of Acre was the first confrontation of the Third Crusade, lasting from August 28, 1189 until July 12, 1191

Richard I was also known as Richard the Lionheart.

Grandes Chroniques de France, folio 238v, 60 x 65 mm

icerocket tags: grandes chroniques de france, philip, richard, acre, keys, siege, 1300

SHAH Quli (attributed to) Flying angel, with cup and wine flask, mid-16th century

2008-12-31T15:23:00.002+02:00

Ottoman period. Probably Istanbul, Turkey

Ink, color wash and gold on paper, 18 x 13,5 cm, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.

icerocket tags: shah quli, flying, angel, cup, wine, flask, 1500

SHAH Quli (attributed to) Kneeling Angel with Cup and Bottle, mid-16th century

2008-12-30T22:24:00.001+02:00

Ottoman period. Probably Istanbul, Turkey

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 19,3 x 10,8 cm, the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.

icerocket tags: shah quli, kneeling, angel, cup, bottle, 1500

CRIVELLI, Carlo Madonna and Child (detail) c1480

2008-12-30T22:19:00.002+02:00

Carlo Crivelli, Italian, c.1435 – c.1495. Italian Renaissance

Tempera and gold on wood, 37.8 x 25.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The eyes of Jesus (and the Madonna) are fixed on a fly which was a medieval symbol of corruption.

Smaller, in colour Whole painting

icerocket tags: crivelli, madonna, child, 1400, fly, animal, insect, looking

SKRAMSTAD, Ludvig Høybåt på fjorden (detail)1878

2008-12-30T22:17:00.002+02:00

Ludvig Skramstad, Norwegian, 1855-1912
Oil painting

Original photo Another detail

icerocket tags: skramstad, boat, fjord, 1800, water, reflection, mountain, norway, landscape, nature

DAVID, Jacques-Louis The Coronation of Napoleon (detail) 1805-07

2008-12-30T22:10:00.002+02:00

Jacques-Louis David, French, 1748 – 1825. Neoclassicism
Oil on canvas, 621 × 979 cm, Louvre, Paris, France

Actually the painting is showing the coronation of Josephine by Napoleon, with the Pope blessing the Empress. Napoleon may not have wanted to perpetuate in paint the somewhat disrespectful action of crowning himself. - Web Gallery of Art

Original title: Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804

Larger (4Mb) The whole painting

icerocket tags: 1800, coronation, david, expressions, faces, napoleon

SHI Ke Huike Thinking, 10th century

2008-12-30T22:06:00.002+02:00

Shi Ke, Chinese, Song Dynasty (10th century)

Huike said to Bodhidharma, “My mind is anxious. Please pacify it.” Bodhidharma replied, “Bring me your mind, and I will pacify it.” Huike said, “Although I’ve sought it, I cannot find it.” “There,” Bodhidharma replied, “I have pacified your mind.”

A Chinese name is written with the family name (surname or last name) first and the given name next, therefore "John Smith" as a Chinese name would be "Smith John"

icerocket tags: shi ke, china, huike, thinking, worry, anxious

VIGEE-LE BRUN, Elisabeth-Louise (attributed to) Marie Antoinette with the rose, 1783

2008-12-30T22:00:00.001+02:00

Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée or Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842. Rococo

icerocket tags: vigee, le brun, vigee, marie, antoinette, portrait, rose, 1700, queen

INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806

2008-12-30T21:48:00.002+02:00

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French, 1780-1867. Neoclassicism
Oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris

icerocket tags: ingres, napoleon, imperial, throne, 1800, ruler, story, emperor, portrait

INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique The Grand Odalisque 1814

2008-12-30T21:42:00.003+02:00

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French, 1780-1867. Neoclassicism
La Grande Odalisque. Oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm, Louvre.

The subject's elongated proportions, reminiscent of 16th-century Mannerist painters, reflect Ingres's search for the pure form of his model.

icerocket tags: ingres, odalisque, grand, 1800

THAULOW, Frits The marble steps, 1903

2008-12-30T21:38:00.002+02:00

Frits Thaulow, Norwegian, 1847-1906. Impressionism
Marmortrappen
Print, color akvatint (?)

icerocket tags: thaulow, marble, steps, 1900, water, town, empty, deserted

THAULOW, Frits From Dieppe, France, with the river Arques, 1895

2008-12-30T21:32:00.002+02:00

Frits Thaulow, Norwegian, 1847-1906. Impressionism
Fra Dieppe med elven Arques
Oil on canvas

icerocket tags: thaulow, dieppe, france, river, arques, adalia, norway, landscape

MEMLING, Hans St John and Veronica Diptych (reverse of the right wing) c. 1483

2008-12-30T21:13:00.000+02:00

Hans Memling (Memlinc), Netherlandish, c. 1430 – 1494
Oil on wood, 31,6 x 24,4 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington

The gold chalice with a serpent is a symbol of redemption. It is referring to the legend of St John the Evangelist who, ordered to drink a cup of poisoned wine, made the sign of blessing, and the venom was miraculously drawn from the liquid.

icerocket tags: 1400, chalice, diptych, still-life, john, memling, poison, serpent, story, veronica

MEMLING, Hans St John and Veronica Diptych (reverse of the left wing)c. 1483

2008-12-30T21:10:00.000+02:00

Hans Memling (Memlinc), Netherlandish, c. 1430 – 1494
Oil on wood, 31,2 x 24,4 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Symbol of transience.

icerocket tags: 1400, death, still-life, diptych, john, memling, skull, transience, veronica

MEMLING, Hans Last Judgment Triptych (left wing, detail) 1467-71

2008-12-30T21:04:00.002+02:00

Another version Original photo
Whole left wing Whole triptych (open)

Oil on wood, 221 x 161 cm (central), 223,5 x 72,5 cm (each wing)
Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk

icerocket tags: memling, last judgement, triptych, 1400, angel, face

MEMLING, Hans Flower Still-life c. 1490

2008-12-30T21:01:00.001+02:00

Oil on oak panel, 29,2 x 22,5 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

The still-life is on the back of a panel representing the portrait of a young man. It has probably once belonged to a triptych.

icerocket tags: memling, flowers, lilies, vase, still-life, bouquet,1400

DORÉ, Gustave Lucifer, King of Hell (detail) 1861–1868

2008-12-30T20:50:00.004+02:00

Engraving by Gustave Doré illustrating Canto XXXIV of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri

Original photo

icerocket tags: dore, lucifer, hell, king, 1800, graphic, thinking, fretting, brooding, angel

BURNE-Jones, Edward Beguiling of Merlin, 1874

2008-12-30T20:43:00.002+02:00

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, English, 1833 – 1898. Pre-Raphaelite
Oil on canvas, 73 1/4 x 43 3/4 in )186 x 111 cmm), Lady Lever Art Gallery, Merseyside, England

Scanned from Wildman, Stephen: Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, ISBN 0870998595

icerocket tags: burne-jones, beguiling, merlin, 1800, magician

VAN GOGH, Vincent Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888

2008-12-30T20:37:00.002+02:00

Larger Original photo

Vincent Willem van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-90. Post-Impressionism

Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 92 cm (28.54 x 36.22 inches), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

icerocket tags: van gogh, starry, stars, night, rhone, 1800, river, town

BURNE-Jones, Edward An Angel Playing a Flageolet, 1878

2008-12-30T16:30:00.000+02:00

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, English, 1833 – 1898. Pre-Raphaelite

Watercolour and bodycolour, 29 3/8 x 24 inches (74.9 x 61.2 cm) The National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool, England

icerocket tags: burne-jones, angel, playing, music, flageolet, 1800, instrument

Angel playing a flageolet (Burne-Jones, Goble) 2008

2008-12-30T16:25:00.002+02:00

After Faith Goble's version (2000) of Edward Burne-Jones's Angel playing a flagelot (1878)

Other versions: 1) 2) 3)

icerocket tags: angel, flagelot, music, playing, instrument, 1800, burne-jones, goble

SHAH Quli (attributed to) Kneeling Angel with Cup and Bottle, mid-16th century

2008-12-30T16:22:00.001+02:00

Other versions: 1) 2) Original photo

Ottoman period. Probably Istanbul, Turkey
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 19,3 x 10,8 cm, the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.

icerocket tags: shah quli, kneeling, angel, cup, bottle, 1500

Sculpture, Egypt Second wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten

2008-12-30T16:16:00.000+02:00

Akhenaten (Echnaton, Akhnaton) Reign 1353 BC – 1336 BC or 1351– 1334 BC, 18th Dynasty

Photo: Mar!n@

icerocket tags: akhenaten, wife, sculpture, 1300BC, face, ancient

Wall painting, Egypt The Goddess Isis, c. 1360 B.C.

2008-12-30T16:09:00.001+02:00

Karnak, Egypt
Another version, modern?

Isis was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife, patron of nature and magic; friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, the downtrodden, as well as listening to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers. Shortly after 2,500 B.C., during the fifth dynasty, the first written records concerning the worship of Isis appear.

icerocket tags: egypt, ancient, goddess, 1300BC, isis

Relief, Akhenaten worshipping the sun-disk Aten

2008-12-30T16:03:00.002+02:00

Akhenaten (Echnaton, Akhnaton) Reign 1353 BC – 1336 BC or 1351– 1334 BC, 18th Dynasty

Photo: Mar!n@

icerocket tags: 1300BC, akhenaten, pharaoh, sun, worship, ancient

TOHAKU, Hasegawa Pine Trees (left panel) 16th century

2008-12-30T15:56:00.000+02:00

Hasegawa Tōhaku, japanese, 1539-1610

Hasegawa Tōhaku painted largely in monochrome ink, in Chinese-inspired styles, and is particularly famous for his depictions of monkeys. The Hasegawa school painted mostly fusuma (sliding doors.

Pair of six-folded screens; ink on paper, 156.8 x 356.0 cm, Tokyo National Museum
Right screen

icerocket tags: tohaku, japan, landscape, hasegawa, pine, trees

TAN'YU, Kano Spring Landscape, 1672

2008-12-30T15:50:00.000+02:00

Kano Tan'yu, japanese, 1602 - 1674

icerocket tags: 1600, landscape, serene, spring, tan'yu, japan

EDELFELT, Albert Queen Blanka, 1877

2008-12-30T15:40:00.001+02:00

Albert Edelfelt, Finnish, 1854-1905
Drottning Blanka
Oil painting

icerocket tags: edelfelt, queen, blanka, 1800, finland, mother, boy, child

NOLDE, Emil The Prophet, 1912

2008-12-30T15:35:00.001+02:00

Emil Nolde, German, 1867 – 1956. Expressionism
Woodcut, private collection

icerocket tags: nolde, prophet, graphic, face, 1900, despair, story

REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee, 1633

2008-12-30T15:33:00.000+02:00

Oil on canvas. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA

icerocket tags: rembrandt, christ, storm, waves, lake, galilee, 1600

MARC, Franz Tiger, 1912

2008-12-03T20:36:00.001+02:00

Franz Marc, German, 1880-1916
Woodcut, 20 × 24 cm
Expressionism

Another version at Visipix.

icerocket tags: tigers, animals, woodcut, graphic, marc, 1900

MARC, Franz Lying Bull, 1913

2008-12-03T20:29:00.000+02:00

Larger photo (3000px × 2625px) at Zeno.org

Liegender Stier
Tempera, 40 × 46 cm, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Expressionism

icerocket tags: marc, lying, bull, animal, 1900, colorful

MARC, Franz Foxes, 1913

2008-12-03T20:22:00.000+02:00

Oil on canvas, 87 x 65 cm; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf

Franz Marc was born on February 8, 1880, in Munich, Germany. With Kandinsky, he founded the almanac "Der Blaue Reiter" in 1911 and organized exhibitions with this name. He was a principal member of the First German Salon d'Automne in 1913.

Franz Marc was a pioneer in the birth of abstract art at the beginning of the twentieth-century The Blaue Reiter group put forth a new program for art based on exuberant color and on profoundly felt emotional and spiritual states. It was Marc's particular contribution to introduce paradisiacal imagery that had as its dramatis personae a collection of animals, most notably a group of heroic horses.

Tragically, Marc was killed in World War I at the age of thirty-six, but not before he had created some of the most exciting and touching paintings of the Expressionist movement. - WebMuseum

icerocket tags: 1900, animals, foxes, marc, colorful

MONET, Claude Water Lilies, 1906

2008-12-03T20:17:00.002+02:00

Claude Oscar Monet, French, 1840 - 1926. Impressionism

Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 92.7 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection

icerocket tags: 1900, flowers, landscape, lilies, monet, pond, water

REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt in a Heavy Fur Cap, 1631

2008-12-02T22:07:00.002+02:00

Etching, 63 x 57 mm, Auckland Art Gallery ( Toi o Tamaki)

The reproduction gives a false sense of the scale of the work as in reality it is not quite the size of a playing card.

Photo by courtesy of freeparking

icerocket tags: cap, etching, fur, graphic, face, moustache, rembrandt, self-portrait, drawing, portrait, 1600

REDON, Odilon Boat with two figures, 1902

2008-12-02T20:49:00.003+02:00

Pastel, 61 cm (24.02 in.) x 51 cm (20.08 in.), private collection

icerocket tags: redon, boat, two, figures, 1900, couple, pair, night, together, journey, sail

RODIN Auguste The Kiss (detail), 1886

2008-10-28T01:59:00.005+02:00

Original photo
Some other versions: 1) 2)

icerocket tags: rodin, kiss, 1800, story, couple, sculpture, love, vulnerable

LEONARDO da Vinci The Virgin and Child with St Anne (detail) c. 1510

2008-10-20T15:45:00.002+03:00

Oil on wood, 168 x 130 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

icerocket tags: 1500, anne, child, faces, leonardo, loving, mild, saint, smiling, virgin

CARAVAGGIO The Calling of Saint Matthew (detail) 1599-1600

2008-10-20T15:29:00.003+03:00

Oil on canvas, 322 x 340 cm, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

icerocket tags: caravaggio, calling, saint, matthew, 1500, 1600, face, wonder, question

MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Drunkenness of Noah 1509

2008-10-20T15:18:00.005+03:00

Fresco, 170 x 260 cm, Cappella Sistina, Vatican

icerocket tags: michelangelo, drunkenness, noah, 1500, naked, shame

CARAVAGGIO, Michelangelo Merisi da Bacchus (detail) c1596

2008-10-19T23:57:00.002+03:00

Oil on canvas, 95 x 85 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

icerocket tags: caravaggio, bacchus, 1500, boy, child, round, sensual, drinking, face

LEONARDO da Vinci St. John the Baptist 1513-16

2008-10-18T21:38:00.001+03:00

Leonardo di Ser Piero, Italian,
b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise

Oil on panel, 69 x 57 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

High Renaissance

Smaller at Web Gallery of Art

icerocket tags: leonardo, john, saint, baptist, 1500, face, smiling, hand, pointing, enigmatic

REDON, Odilon The Wing, 1893

2008-10-18T20:54:00.005+03:00

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916

L'Aile
Litograph, 32.1 x 24.1 cm (image), 50.5 x 36.9 cm (sheet),Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Symbolism

icerocket tags: 1800, graphic, horse, instinct, intuition, pegasus, animal, redon, story, wing, wings, fantasy

REDON, Odilon Three Vases of Flowers 1908-1910

2008-10-18T20:48:00.002+03:00

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916

Pastel on light brown paper, laid down on paper, 71,8 x 53 cm, private collection

icerocket tags: redon, three, vases, flowers, still-life, 1900

REDON, Odilon Vase of Poppies circa 1905-1906

2008-10-18T20:41:00.004+03:00

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916

Oil on canvas, 54.5 cm (21.46 in.) x 65 cm (25.59 in.), private collection

icerocket tags: redon, vase, poppies, 1900, flowers, still-life

REDON, Odilon The Raven, 1882

2008-10-18T20:22:00.002+03:00

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916

Charcoal and chalk, 40 x 27.9 cm, National gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Symbolism

Another photo

icerocket tags: redon, raven, 1800, watching, bird, animal

MODIGLIANI, Amadeo Young Girl in Beret, 1918

2008-10-18T20:09:00.005+03:00

Amadeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884-1920

Oil on canvas, 65.2 cm (25.67 in.) x 46.5 cm (18.31 in.), private collection (Paris)

Another photo at The Athenaeum

icerocket tags: modligliani, young, girl, beret, 1900, hat, face

REDON, Odilon Seashell, 1912

2008-10-17T20:49:00.000+03:00

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916

Drawing - pastel on paper, 20.5 cm (8.07 in.) x 22.75 cm (8.96 in.), Musee d'Orsay (France)

Symbolism

icerocket tags: redon, seashell, 1900, treasure, pure, golden, story

REDON, Odilon Saint Sebastian, 1910-12

2008-10-17T19:51:00.005+03:00

High resolution photo

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916

Oil on canvas, 144 x 62,5 cm, National Gallery of Art Washington DC

Symbolism

icerocket tags: redon, sebastian, saint, 1900, suffering, pain, surrender, story

REDON, Odilon Alsace or Monk Reading, 1914

2008-10-17T18:33:00.008+03:00

Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916
l’Alsace ou moine lisant

Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 54.2 cm, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)

Symbolism

icerocket tags: 1900, alsace, book, monk, hariberth, involved, reading, redon, sad

GRIS, Juan Flower on a Table, c.1925

2008-10-13T10:46:00.010+03:00

Juan Gris, Spanish, 1887-1927

Oil on canvas, 92 × 73 cm, private collection

Cubism

icerocket tags: gris, flower, table, window, open, love, giving, book, story, 1900, still-life, red

GRIS, Juan Seated Harlequin, 1923

2008-10-13T10:24:00.007+03:00

Juan Gris, Spanish, 1887-1927

Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Carey Walker Foundation, New York

Cubism

Larger

icerocket tags: gris, seated, harlequin, 1900, hariberth, giving, love, pierrot

BLAKE, William Elohim Creating Adam (detail) 1795

2008-09-03T22:53:00.007+03:00

William Blake, English, 1757-1827

Tate Gallery, Colour print finished in ink and watercolour on paper, 43 × 53,5 cm (whole painting)

Original photo

icerocket tags: blake, elohim, creation, adam, 1700, god, creating, passion, suffering

CARAVAGGIO, Michelangelo Merisi da Sacrifice of Isaac (detail) 1601-02

2008-08-18T14:01:00.006+03:00

Oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Another detail
Original photo
The whole painting

icerocket tags: caravaggio, sacrifice, isaac, 1600, face, hand, screaming, helpless, boy, story, hariberth

ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO Famous Persons, Pippo Spano c. 1450

2008-08-18T12:50:00.013+03:00

Andrea di Bartolodi Bargilla, Italian, 1423-1457

Fresco transferred to wood, 250 x 154 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Blue: bigger, smaller
Original photo

icerocket tags: andrea del castagno, famous, pippo, spano, 1400, soldier, guard, sword, armor, story

Fayum Mummy Portrait A Man (detail) 100-300AD

2008-08-18T12:25:00.006+03:00

The Fayum mummy portraits date to the Roman period, from the late 1st century BC or the early 1st century AD onwards. It is not clear when their production ended, but recent research suggests the middle of the 3rd century.

Two groups of portraits can be distinguished by technique: One of encaustic (wax) paintings, the other in tempera. The former are usually of higher quality.

- Wikipedia

Original photo Another photo, courtesy of *clairity*

icerocket tags: 100-300AD, egypt, eyes, face, berthold, fayum, hurt, man, mummy, portrait, question, roman, unhappy, vulnerable, why

Fayum Mummy Portrait, A Woman (detail) 100-300AD

2008-08-18T11:32:00.007+03:00

icerocket tags: 100-300AD, bold, compassion, hariberth, eyes, face, fayum, fearless, looking, mummy, portrait, unafraid

REDON, Odilon Head of a Sleeping Woman c.1905

2008-08-17T23:57:00.008+03:00

Bertrand-Jean Redon, French, 1840-1916. Symbolism

Oil on canvas (oil on paper, laid down on canvas) 49.53 cm x 49.53 cm (19.5 in.) Private collection

Another location

icerocket tags: 1900, face, head, leaning, profile, redon, sleeping, story, surrender, tired, woman

DAVID, Jacques-Louis The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons (study) 1789

2008-08-17T23:14:00.013+03:00

Original photo

Jacques-Louis David, French, 1748 – 1825
Oil on Canvas, 127 1/4 x 166 1/4 in. (323 x 422 cm), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Neoclassicism

icerocket tags: 1700, berthold, brutus, david, drawing, pain, trouble, suffering, undecided, face, study

GRIS, Juan The Open Book (detail) 1925

2008-08-17T14:39:00.007+03:00

José Victoriano González-Pérez, Spanish, 1887-1927. Cubism

Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Kunstmuseum, Bern (Switzerland)

Original photo

icerocket tags: gris, open, book, 1900, story, breaking, falling

GRIS, Juan Pierrot with Book 1924

2008-08-17T13:57:00.005+03:00

José Victoriano González-Pérez, Spanish, 1887-1927. Cubism

Le Pierrot au livre
Oil on canvas, 65,5 x 50,8 cm, Tate Modern, London

icerocket tags: gris, pierrot, book, 1900, harlequin, hariberth, eye, looking, wondering

REDON, Odilon (1840-1916) Ophelia

2008-08-13T17:24:00.005+03:00

Bertrand-Jean Redon, French, 1840-1916. Symbolism

Oil on canvas, 48.9 cm (19.25 in.) x 51.44 cm (20.25 in.) Private collection.
No dates listed, c.1905?

icerocket tags: 1900, death, drowning, face, ophelia, profile, redon, release, story, surrender, tired

CARAVAGGIO Michelangelo Merisi da Madonna del Rosario (detail) 1607

2008-08-10T16:26:00.007+03:00

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian, 1572-1610. Tenebrism

Oil on canvas, width of detail 64 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Another detail. Original photo. Whole painting

icerocket tags: caravaggio, madonna, rosario, 1600, hands, touching, story

CHIRICO, Giorgio de Horses by the seaside, 1928

2008-08-09T18:34:00.007+03:00

Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian, 1888-1978. Cavalli in riva al mare
Oil on canvas, 73,5 x 92,2 cm, Mart: Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

Pre-Surrealism. Just another location

icerocket tags: chirico, horses, seaside, head, blind, passion, story, animals, will

BOUGUEREAU, William-Adolphe Dante And Virgil In Hell (detail) 1850

2008-08-09T14:48:00.009+03:00

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905. Dante et Virgile au Enfers

Oil on canvas, 110 5/8 x 88 1/2 inches (281 x 225 cm). Paris, Musée du Louvre

Private collection. Realism. Whole painting

icerocket tags: bouguereau, dante, virgil, hell, pain, 1800, story, hands, combat

DAVID, Jacques-Louis The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons (detail) 1789

2008-08-08T18:55:00.009+03:00

Oil on canvas, 323 x 422 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Some other details: 1) 2) 3)

Original photo

icerocket tags: 1700, berthold, brutus, david, death, face, pain, revenge, suffering

KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa Oki no Jiro Hiroari killing a monstrous tengu, 1800s

2008-08-07T22:29:00.009+03:00

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese, 1797-1861
One of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting

The emperor sent Oki no Jiro on duty to kill a nue, a composite of monkey, tiger, dragon and snake, but when the courtiers inspect the strange bird , they discover that it was a tengu type of a long-nosed gobling.

Original photo

icerocket tags: kuniyoshi, killing, monster, 1800, japan, berthold, story, why, angry

Psalter of Saint Louis, Drunkenness of Noah, 13th century

2008-08-06T16:22:00.006+03:00

Psautier de Saint Louis
French, Paris

More information at Finn's Fine Books
and Bibliothèque nationale de France

icerocket tags: 1200, berthold, drunk, unknown, drunkenness, louis, noah, psalter, saint

RENI, Guido Massacre of the Innocents 1611

2008-08-06T14:31:00.005+03:00

Guido Reni, Italian, 1575-1642

Oil on canvas, 268 x 170 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna

Original photo. Whole painting

icerocket tags: reni, massacre, innocents, 1600, face, woman, screaming, hariberth, surprised

ALTDORFER, Albrecht Triumphal Procession (detail) c. 1513-1515

2008-08-02T22:10:00.019+03:00

Albrecht Altdorfer, German, c. 1480 -1538, Danube School. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art.

Triumphzug Kaiser Maximilians, Szene: Reichsbanner und Reichsschwert, Detail

Illuminated manuscript. Pergament, Graphische Sammlung der Albertina, Vienna

Original photo

icerocket tags: 1500, altdorfer, banner, bertholia, coat-of-arms, illumination, maximilian, pergament, procession, story, triumphal, eagle

LEONARDO da Vinci The Battle of Anghiari (detail) 1503-05

2008-08-01T01:49:00.004+03:00

Drawing (study)
Original photo

More details 1) 2) 3)

icerocket tags: leonardo, battle, anghiari, 1500, drawing, study, killing, embrace, story

LEONARDO da Vinci Annunciation (detail) 1472-75

2008-07-31T23:11:00.003+03:00

Oil and tempera on wood
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Original photo
More facial experiments 1) 2) 3)

The whole painting here and here and here

icerocket tags: leonardo, annunciation, 1400, face, angel, lilies, ventus, meeting, story

KITTELSEN, Theodor Forest Troll, 1906

2008-07-31T02:30:00.005+03:00

Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian, 1857-1914

Skogtroll fra 1906, som fikk pryde omslaget til Moltke Moes senere reviderte utgave av Eventyrbok for barn

Original photo

icerocket tags: kittelsen, forest, troll, hechsenwald, story, fear, afraid, moon, moonlight

BAUER, John You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon, 1915

2008-07-31T01:54:00.007+03:00

Look at them, troll mother said. Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon. Illustration of Walter Stenström's The boy and the trolls or The Adventure in childrens' anthology Among pixies and trolls, a collection of childrens' stories, 1915

- I'm especially fond of the one to the left, with the long ears...

Titta på dem, sade trollmor. Titta på mina söner! Vackrare troll finns inte på denna sidan månen. Illustration av Walter Stenströms Pojken och trollen eller Äventyret i Bland tomtar och troll, 1915

Size: 27 x 28.8 centimeters
Fairy tales, Swedish

Original photo

icerocket tags: 1900, bauer, beautiful, fairy tales, illustration, mother, princess, sons, trolls

BAUER, John Tuvstarr is still sitting there wistfully looking into the water, 1913

2008-07-31T01:20:00.006+03:00

Illustration for "The story of Skutt the moose and little princess Tuvstarr" by Helge Kjellin in Among pixies and trolls, 1913

Ännu sitter Tuvstarr kvar och ser ner i vattnet. Illustration till Helge Kjellins Sagan om älgtjuren Skutt och lilla prinsessan Tuvstarr i Bland tomtar och troll, 1913

Water colour, 25.2 x 25 centimeters

Another version
Original photo

icerocket tags: bauer, enchantment, fairy tales, forest, illustration, mirror, narcissus, tuvstarr

BAUER, John Root trolls (detail) 1917

2008-07-31T00:35:00.007+03:00

Rottrollen. Fairy tales, Sweden
Original photo

icerocket tags: bauer, root, trolls, beauty, different, fairy tales, 1900, forest, child, story, bertholdare, silvarer