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April 22, 1859: Swiss-born German Post-Impressionist Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein is born.
#ArtFact Ottilie lived with Elisabeth Hermine Winterhalter, one of first female German doctors.
🎨 Ottilie Roederstein, "Elisabeth Winterhalter", 1887
📷 Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein
April 20, 1805: German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter is born.
Winterhalter was a very in-demand artist. First summoned to the English court by Queen Victoria in 1841, he painted most of Europe’s royalty and leading aristocracy.
🎨 "Portrait of Queen Victoria", 1859
April 18, 1504: Early Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi dies.
Lippi was the son of famous painter Fra Filippo Lippi, and his style was most certainly influenced by the works of Sandro Botticelli.
🎨 "The Nativity with Two Angels", possibly early 1490s #Art
April 5, 1732: French Rococo-style painter/printmaker Jean Honoré Fragonard is born.
Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoë" was exhibited at the Salon in Paris where it was purchased for King Louis XV.
🎨 Jean Honoré Fragonard, "Coresus and Callirhoë", 1765
April 3, 1682: Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo dies.
While painting the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine for an altarpiece at the Capuchin church in Cadiz, Murillo fell on the scaffolding, rupturing his intestines. A modest man, he refused examination and later died.
April 2, 1647: German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian is born.
Merian's work exhibited an extremely impressive degree of scientific accuracy and detail. She brought a new standard of precision to scientific illustration.
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"There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us." ~ Pope John Paul II
Remembering John Paul II who died April 2, 2005.
🎨 This oil on canvas portrait was painted in 2006 by a Polish artist who goes by the name grzechu01 online.
March 26, 1794: German painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld is born.
Von Carolsfeld is associated with the Nazarene movement: A reaction against 18th-century Neoclassicism, and a return to art with a moral or religious purpose.
🎨 "Domine Quo Vadis", 1843
March 24, 1834: William Morris, English textile designer and leading member of the Arts and Crafts Movement, is born.
Morris was a lifelong friend of artist Edward Burne-Jones and they collaborated on a number of exquisite tapestries, including "The Failure of Sir Gawaine". 🎨