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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. 🎨
🎨 Glen Loates, "Wood Ducks", 1986 🦆
Greatest wildlife artist in history, in my opinion. And a Canadian too! 🖌️🇨🇦
@museodelprado 🎨 Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, "Allegory of Smell", 1617-18 #Art #FiveSenses
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. 🎨
"If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living." ~ Romans 14:8
🎨 Carl Bloch, 1870
"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." ~ John 11:25
🎨 Bernhard Plockhorst, "Easter Morning" (Noli Me Tangere), 1880