Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

This trompe l'oeil style painting is Roelant Savery's "Vase of Flowers in a Stone Niche", 1615.

It teems with lively little creatures that look as if they might crawl right out.

This is also a beautiful example of artists SIGNING and DATING their work! No guessing required! 🎨

February 25, 1639: Flemish painter Roelant Savery dies.

Savery was apprenticed to his elder brother Jacob, who was also a painter.

After his brother's death, Roelant became court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (and his successor, Matthias).

🎨 "Noah's Ark", 1620s

"Family Favourites", Arthur J. Elsley's heartwarming scene of children and their pets, is the painted embodiment of #LoveYourPetDay.

This is the kind of love that everyone should have for their animals. 😊♥🎨🐶🐱

"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." ~ Proverbs 12:10

🎨 Alex Colville, "Dog and Priest", 1978 #LoveYourPetDay

February 18, 1775: British watercolourist and etcher Thomas Girtin is born.

At a time when oil painting was the norm, Girtin helped to establish watercolour as a reputable and desirable medium.

🎨 Thomas Girtin, "Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland", 1797-99

February 5, 1578: Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Battista Moroni dies.

Moroni's chief specialty was portraiture—unusual during the Renaissance.

For me, it is Moroni's religious works which are truly fine.

🎨 A Gentleman in Adoration Before the Baptism of Christ, 1555-60

January 29, 1888: English landscape painter Edward Lear dies.

Lear is better known as a writer of "nonsense verse", but his skill as an artist is impressive.

During his career, he worked for the @britishmuseum and made drawings of birds for the ornithologist John Gould. 🎨

John Singer Sargent's "The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy" (1907) is a portrait of two fellow artists: American figure painter Jane de Glehn and her husband, Wilfrid, a British Impressionist painter. They often traveled with Sargent and appear in many of his works. 🎨

Happy #NationalBirdDay! 🦉

"Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God." ~ Luke 12:6

🎨 Glen Loates, "Wood Ducks", 1986

@SeaGoatScreams @Rhona_Greene It's especially interesting to see the watercolours where he paints the Egyptian depiction of a bird or animal, and then illustrates it realistically too!