Dominus Venustasさんのイラストまとめ

"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." ~ Proverbs 12:10

🎨 Alex Colville, "Dog and Priest", 1978 #LoveYourPetDay

February 16, 1925: American artist Ed Emshwiller is born.

Ed is best known for his colourfully imaginative science fiction and fantasy pulp illustrations. His work has graced the covers (and interiors) of comic books, magazines and paperbacks. 🎨 #SciFi #Art

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. 🎨

One of 72 engravings based on sketches made during Merian's two years in Surinam, South America. Said Merian, "[The pineapple is] the most outstanding of all edible fruits."

🎨 Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 1, Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam, 1719

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. 🎨

Canadian master of wildlife painting Glen Loates has created some of the most beautiful bird pictures out there. 🎨 #NationalBirdDay

🎨 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, "Saint Francis at the Foot of the Cross", 1669

This painting is #288 in Charles Boyd Curtis's "Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Works". It was painted for the Capuchin Church in Cadiz. #Art #Painting #ArtistsOfBeauty

"The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." ~ John 1:14

🎨 Charles-André Van Loo, "The Adoration of the Magi", 1760

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." ~ Isaiah 9:6

🎨 Cosmè Tura, "The Adoration of the Magi", 1480