Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

June 6, 1599: Spanish painter Diego Velázquez is baptized.

Diego became the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. Sadly, the painter rarely signed or dated his works, meaning they are often identified by style.

🎨 Diego Velázquez, "The Immaculate Conception", 1618-19

May 28, 1810: Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame is born.

The son of a marble carver, Calame lost sight in one eye as a child. He took painting lessons from Alpine landscape artist François Diday, whose influence is evident in Calame's work.

🎨 1860

May 27, 1889: American artist and illustrator Cyrus Leroy Baldridge is born.

Baldridge was a frontline artist during World War I. He worked for several newspapers reporting on life in the trenches. He also traveled the world, illustrating different cultures and lifestyles. 🎨

May 25, 1616: Baroque period Italian painter Carlo Dolci is born.

Inspired by the teachings of the Counter-Reformation, a young Dolci devoted his career to the painting of religious subjects which proved extremely popular during his lifetime.

🎨 "The Trinity in Glory", 1640

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

"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

Happy #Easter, everyone! 🙏💕✝️

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.

"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.