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hasevonbastille:

Elijah in the Wilderness, Lord Frederick Leighton

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Abbott Handerson Thayer
My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)
1897
Oil on canvas
86 1/4 x 61 1/8 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Abbott Handerson Thayer, known for his paintings of angels, often used his children as models. Referring to My Children, Thayer wrote of his aim to show “three blissfully exalted children” in a way that “puts beauty to the eye first, and the idea last.”
Americanart.si.edu

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darksilenceinsuburbia:

Joan Mitchell. L’école Buissonnière, ca. 1959. Oil on canvas. 68.6 x 66 cm.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Promised gift of Susan and Larry Marx.
©Estate of Joan Mitchell.
Photograph by Jason Dewey

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Stefan Krikl

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masterpiecedaily:

Gustav Klimt
Pallas Athene
1898

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an-age-of-innocence asked: hello , do you have any blogs of note that are predominantly showing italian statues and sculpture ? thank you . h.

I don’t remember any blog like that right now. But maybe some of my followers could contribute?!

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uutpoetry:

Closure
Cold oils slid along his veins, chilling his blood: age crusting him with a salt cloak. Slowly, one by one, he selected the colors. He then put the dead man in a hollow tree at his head—for he wanted to protect him from the wolves—and laid himself down on the ground and moss. It was the skeleton of his wife in her yet unmoulded shroud. For the next several minutes, he carefully picked up the crayons and applied them to her bones, thinking quietly to himself the while. “She would love this,” he thought, “if she she could see herself now.” Our journey flows past us like ice chunks, maybe it is we that are stationary. That would make Death a huge glacier crashing into us while we’re strapped down near the equator. The act of closure will make a strong, sad sound.

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antiqueart:

Gustave Courbet - The Cellist, Self Portrait (1847)

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daiseas:

Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, c. 1482 (detail)

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monsieurleprince:

Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784-1855) - Santa Filomena

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colourthysoul:

Henry John Stock - The Uplifting of Psyche

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moodygoth:

odett-e:

The End(I like blood, get ova it)

oh my, that’s beautiful.

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Egon Schiele

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Cornelis van Haarlem: Clash of the Titans (1588)

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Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite (1871-73), by Albert Bierstadt
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German-born Albert Bierstadt gave definitive expression to America’s westward expansion in the 1860s and 1870s. His vast panoramas of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains introduced Americans to a majestic wilderness, awesome and exhilarating, and well worth possessing. The artist found his greatest subject in California’s Yosemite Valley, which he first visited in the summer of 1863. So spectacular was the remote and secluded valley that Bierstadt referred to it as the Garden of Eden. His many paintings of Yosemite are indeed biblical in their grandeur. Widely exhibited, they helped awaken the nation to the need to preserve such natural wonders. Bierstadt’s vision of the American West inspired later generations of artists—most notably the photographer Ansel Adams.
Artnc.org

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