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October 3, 1884: Austrian artist Hans Makart dies.

Salzburg's Makart Square (also called Makartplatz) in Austria was named after the painter.

🎨 Hans Makart, "Homage to Charlotte Wolter", 1878-80

October 1, 1532: Netherlandish painter Jan Gossaert dies in Belgium.

Gossaert was one of the first artists to introduce the Italian Renaissance style to the "Low Countries": Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

🎨 "St. Luke Painting the Madonna", about 1520

September 19, 1867: English book illustrator Arthur Rackham is born.

In his lifetime, Rackham illustrated more than 60 books, ranging from Grimm's Fairy Tales to Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton, and Edgar Allan Poe.

🎨 "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" 🐻🐻🐻

"By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice... Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death." ~ Hebrews 11:17-20

🎨 Harold Copping, "Abraham and Isaac"

#ArtFact One of the most famous sculptures in the world, Rodin's "The Kiss" was, in fact, meant to be a depiction of doomed lovers Paolo & Francesca. It was even originally titled, "Francesca da Rimini".

This is Anselm Feuerbach's (#BornOnThisDay) 1863 rendition of the pair. 🎨

September 12, 1829: German classicist artist Anselm Feuerbach is born.

In 1873, he became a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

🎨 Anselm Feuerbach, "The Symposium" (Second Version), 1871-74

September 9, 1901: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, premier poster artist of Paris, dies at only 36-years of age.

Sadly, the end of the artist's short life was rather tragic. As well as living with a deformity, he ailed greatly and suffered from alcoholism.

🎨 In Bed, The Kiss, 1892

"Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." ~ Matthew 28:20

"I Am With You Always": https://t.co/Vti36HGUHf #SundayScripture #NewBlogPost

🎨 James Tissot, "Our Lord Jesus Christ", 1896-97

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

"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 #ArtQuotes