centuriespast:

The Union of Love and Friendship
ARTIST:Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
DATE:c. 1793

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

centuriespast:

The Temptation of Christ
ARTIST:Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)
DATE:c. 1516-1525

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

devidsketchbook:

Artist Joe Macca - Echoes in the Ether

(  oil and acrylic on panel, 18” x 18” )    Via

eatsleepdraw:

Artists’ Son. Click through for a Time-Lapse of the painting.

thestuartkings:

Portrait of King Charles I 1630s

Sir Anthony van Dyck

monsieurleprince:

Giovan Francesco de Rosa (Pacecco de Rosa, 1607-1656) - Lucretia

thestuartkings:

Portrait of Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk 1660c.

By John Michael Wright

The identity of the sitter as Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk is confirmed by Adrian Hanneman’s portrait of the 6th Duke at Arundel Castle, dated 1660. As with many of his contemporaries, Henry Howard spent much of his youth abroad. By 1665 he had settled at his villa at Albury, Surrey, where Evelyn visited him and admired his pictures and curiosities. According to Evelyn, Howard was instrumental in restoring the dukedom to Norfolk, which fell to his elder brother Thomas, by settling the debts of his grandfather, Thomas Earl of Arundel (1586-1646), the famous collector. Henry was also a keen connoisseur and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 28th November 1666, to whom he presented the greater part of his library. In 1667 his friend Evelyn persuaded him to give the famous Arundel marbles, which were lying neglected in the garden of Arundel House, to the University of Oxford.

On the death of his first wife Lady Anne Somerset, eldest daughter of Edward, 2nd Marquis of Worcester, in 1662 he is said by Evelyn to have fallen into a deep melancholy and to have sought relief in a course of dissipation, which impaired both his fortune and reputation. He married secondly his mistress, Jane Bickerton, whose father was a gentleman of the wine cellar to Charles II. He died in 1684 at Arundel House and was buried at Arundel Castle, except for his heart which was deposited at the convent of St Elizabeth in Bruges.

mesbeauxarts:

John Singer Sargent.The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant. 1899.

Oil on canvas.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY. USA.

mump:

six-klicks-east:

peira:

fckyeaharthistory:

Vincent van Gogh:  Skull with a Burning Cigarette (1885-1886) Oil on canvas

@mump

i really should have bought the print of this while we were in amsterdam.

opus53:

Michael Sweerts, Self-Portrait, Oil on canvas, 1656

mesbeauxarts:

Willem Wissing and Jan van der Vaardt. Queen Anne, when Princess of Denmark. 1685.

Oil on canvas.

Scottish National Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland.

mesbeauxarts:

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller. Danaë and the Shower of Gold. 1787.

Oil on canvas.

Nationalmuseum. Stockholm, Sweden.

centuriespast:

MUSSCHER, Michiel van

(b. 1645, Rotterdam, d. 1705, Amsterdam)

The Painter’s Studio
1679
Oil on panel, 57 x 47 cm
Historisch Museum Het Schielandhuis, Rotterdam

beconinriot:

@e_whitey Eric White “1961 FORD GALAXIE 500 SUNLINER (PIERROT LE FOU)”, 2010, oil on canvas, 48 × 48 inches

23silence:

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712-1793) - A Female Artist Painting the Image of the Sudarium