Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

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" 🐻🐻🐻

September 19, 1719: Dutch painter Jan Weenix dies. He was a painter of luscious game still-lifes, with animals (both alive and dead) and exquisite flora.

This Jan Weenix is not to be confused with the artist who taught him—his father, Jan Baptist Weenix (d. October 6, 1663). 🎨

"At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on Him." ~ Matthew 3:16-17

🎨 Alessandro Magnasco, "The Baptism of Christ", 1740

🎨 Anselm Feuerbach, "Paolo and Francesca", 1863 #Art #Painting #BornOnThisDay

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, the 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.

🎨 "Jane Avril", 1893

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

🎨 Edward Burne-Jones (born August 28, 1833), "The Rose Bower", 1890

"Here lies the hoarded love, the key to all the treasure that shall be. Come, fated hand, the gift to take and smite the sleeping world awake."

"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

August 27, 1664: Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán dies.

Zurbarán's richly coloured "The Adoration of the Kings" was painted for the Carthusian monastery at Jerez in Spain. It is dated 1638, and signed “Painter to the King”,

🎨 "The Adoration of the Kings", 1638