Ashmolean Museumさんのイラストまとめ

Today is #WorldPartyDay! Whilst parties feel like a thing of the past now, we hope it's not too long before we can start celebrating together again 🎉

A print of a painting and calligraphy party, or shokagai, by Japanese artist Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865).

Happy Monday, everyone 💐We hope you have a lovely week ahead!

This watercolour painting, 'A Bunch of Country Flowers' is by Sophia Davenport (1818–1916). Sophia was born in Oxford, but travelled far and wide with her paints, recording landscapes and flowers on the way

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born #onthisday in 1475. The painter, sculptor, architect and poet is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period.

Ideal Head, 1520-1525

This is the kind of energy that we are looking for on this #NationalPigDay

Lizzie Siddall was the 19th century’s proto-supermodel, and we tend to know her through the filter of the men who painted her. In today's episode of Objects out Loud, discover the real Lizzie - an talented artist and poet - on her own terms.

Listen now: https://t.co/6sqVm5ZD1f

...because you can never have too much Hiroshige, right? 🖼️⁠
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'Misaka Pass in Kai Province' by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). From the 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' series. 1856–1858, Woodblock print with bokashi on paper.⁠

A Pair of Java Sparrows by Chinese artist Lin Fengmian, who was born #onthisday in 1900. Fengmian was a pioneer in Chinese art and became known for his blending of Chinese and western techniques

'A Mill near Zaandam' by Claude Monet, who was born #onthisday in 1840. Monet was known for painting straight from nature, or 'en plein air', and was most interested in finding ways to express the effects of light and reflection.

Wishing you a very happy Sunday 🌹⁠'Still life of Roses in a Vase', an oil on canvas painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir c. 1880-1890. Renoir painted many still-life paintings in the last decade of his life, including a series of paintings of roses in round bowls.

Before becoming an artist, Burne-Jones, who was born #onthisday, studied at Exeter College @UniofOxford where he befriended William Morris over a mutual love of poetry. The Knights Farewell, an ink-on-paper drawing by Burne-Jones, 1858