Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

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" 🐻🐻🐻

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

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

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

Aug. 25, 1879: American Maritime painter Frank Vining Smith is born.

By 47, Smith was successful enough to transition from commercial illustrator to full-time marine artist. His majestic seas and sailing ships account for many of the 1000+ paintings he completed in his lifetime.

"Colville is different. For the art world, he was to some extent an outsider. But perhaps it was because he was not going where the art world was going that he became popular." ~ Andrew Hunter, curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario

🎨 Alex Colville, "Dog and Priest", 1978

August 22, 1806: French painter/printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard dies.

Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoë" (1765) was exhibited at the Salon in Paris, where it was subsequently purchased for King Louis XV.

🎨 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, "Coresus and Callirhoë", 1765

August 20, 1714: Mexican Baroque painter Cristóbal de Villalpando dies in Mexico City.

Inspired by Rubens, Cristóbal's paintings are colourful, luminous, and bathed in a most ethereal golden light.

🎨 "Moses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus", 1683