Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

"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

"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. 😊♥🎨🐶🐱

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 16, 1925: American artist Ed Emshwiller is born.

Ed is best known for his colourfully imaginative science fiction and fantasy pulp illustrations. His work has graced the covers (and interiors) of comic books, magazines and paperbacks. 🎨 #SciFi #Art

"I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38

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. 🎨

One of 72 engravings based on sketches made during Merian's two years in Surinam, South America. Said Merian, "[The pineapple is] the most outstanding of all edible fruits."

🎨 Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 1, Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam, 1719

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. 🎨

"The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." ~ John 1:14

🎨 Charles-André Van Loo, "The Adoration of the Magi", 1760