Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

August 30, 1855: English artist Evelyn De Morgan is born.

Evelyn was a follower of Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, and her style is very reminiscent of his.

"Art is eternal, but life is short."

🎨 Evelyn De Morgan, "Hope in the Prison of Despair", 1887

🎨 Edward Burne-Jones (born August 28, 1833), "The Rose Bower", 1890

"Here lies the hoarded love, the key to all the treasure that shall be. Come, fated hand, the gift to take and smite the sleeping world awake."

"I lived inside the pictures and from the inside of them looked out upon a world less real than they." ~ Edward Burne-Jones

🎨 Edward Burne-Jones, "The Wheel of Fortune", 1883

August 27, 1664: Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán dies.

Zurbarán's richly coloured "The Adoration of the Kings" was painted for the Carthusian monastery at Jerez in Spain. It is dated 1638, and signed “Painter to the King”,

🎨 "The Adoration of the Kings", 1638

Aug. 25, 1879: American Maritime painter Frank Vining Smith is born.

By 47, Smith was successful enough to transition from commercial illustrator to full-time marine artist. His majestic seas and sailing ships account for many of the 1000+ paintings he completed in his lifetime.

"Colville is different. For the art world, he was to some extent an outsider. But perhaps it was because he was not going where the art world was going that he became popular." ~ Andrew Hunter, curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario

🎨 Alex Colville, "Dog and Priest", 1978

August 22, 1806: French painter/printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard dies.

Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoë" (1765) was exhibited at the Salon in Paris, where it was subsequently purchased for King Louis XV.

🎨 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, "Coresus and Callirhoë", 1765

August 20, 1714: Mexican Baroque painter Cristóbal de Villalpando dies in Mexico City.

Inspired by Rubens, Cristóbal's paintings are colourful, luminous, and bathed in a most ethereal golden light.

🎨 Cristóbal de Villalpando, "Annunciation", 1706

August 17, 1839: Dutch artist Matthijs Maris is born.

Despite helping found the Hague School with his two brothers, Matthijs himself eventually drifted away from its classically realistic style, embracing a softer, more modern approach. He died 5 days after his 78th birthday. 🎨

August 6, 1660: Diego Velázquez, Spanish Baroque artist and leading court painter of King Phillip IV, dies.

One of the most influential artists of the 17th century, Velázquez's "Coronation of the Virgin" (1644) is one of the most beautiful examples of his work. 🎨