Ashmolean Museumさんのイラストまとめ

Today is Chrysanthemum Day in Japan, marking the change of the season. It's also known as Chōyō & Kiku no Sekku 菊の節句. This detail is from a large baluster vase with chrysanthemums and a butterfly from Nagoya, Japan.

This fan painting of a small sleeping cat is by Hara Zaimei, the second painter of the Kyoto-based Japanese painting atelier called the Hara School. Hara artists were imperial court painters and had great influence within the Kyoto art circles #RelaxationDay 💤

Two studies of a cat by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923) #InternationalCatDay 🐱

Happy #InternationalBeerDay! This ink & watercolour work by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade shows a seated peasant enjoying a glass of beer circa 1670–1686. Cheers!

Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones died #onthisday in 1898. Burne-Jones worked closely with William Morris, and co-founded the successful decorative arts company Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Detail of Danäe and the brazen Tower. Oil on panel, 1872

The Vale of Dedham from Langham by renowned English landscape artist John Constable who was born #onthisday in 1776. See it on display in our Oil Sketches Gallery

A colour woodcut on paper called Autumn Moon on the Sumida River by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige I, 1845. Keep an eye out for the #FullMoon tonight!

Landscape by Albrecht Dürer, who was born #onthisday in 1471. While most of his work consisted of oil paintings and woodcut engravings, Dürer also painted a number of watercolour landscapes in his travels to and from Italy, particularly in the Alps of southern Tyrol, Italy.

"In this image, black & white shapes evoke the electric lights that illuminate the modern city at night. Crossing, curvilinear diagonals hint at movement & dynamic energy that animate it" See this lithograph & more in #AmericasCoolModernism until 22 Jul https://t.co/yf4nN30xFA

Peony and a butterfly by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian, 1899–1965. Ink and colour on paper #NationalGardeningWeek