Clay F. Johnsonさんのイラストまとめ

Heinrich Lefler died #OTD 1919. These illustrations are from “Grimms Märchen” (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and were by both Lefler and his brother-in-law Joseph Urban.

Godfather Death
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and Rose Red
Snow White

#Art #ArtHistory #ArtNouveau #GrimmsFairyTales

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was born #OTD 1781. Known as an architect of neo-Classical and neo-Gothic buildings, he was also a brilliant painter.

Gothic Church on a Rock by the Sea
The Gate in the Rocks
Medieval City on a River
Queen of the Night

#Art #ArtHistory #Gothic #Mozart

Philip James de Loutherbourg died #OTD 1812. The first painting—one of my favorites—depicts the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard
The Vision of the White Horse
An Avalanche in the Alps
Château de Chillon

#Art #Gothic #TinternAbbey #Byron #Romanticism #Alps

Jaroslav Panuška was born #OTD 1872. Though many consider his masterpieces to be landscapes, my favorites are his dark & fantastical work—much of it influenced by Czech fairy tales.

Baba Yaga
Witch
Vengeance on the Dead
Vampire

#Art #ArtHistory #Witch #BabaYaga #Vampire

Thomas Cole died #OTD 1848. The last painting was based on Lord Byron’s witch poem “Manfred”.

Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Moonlight Landscape
Scene from Manfred

#Art #ArtHistory #HudsonRiverSchool #Byron #LordByron #Romanticism

Jules Verne was born #OTD 1828. In honor of his birthday, here are some illustrations from his novel The Carpathian Castle (Le Château des Carpathes, 1893) by Léon Benett.

#JulesVerne #Gothic #Mystery #Literature #Art

Here are paintings that have inspired poems of mine. These are by Clara Siewert who died penniless and was mostly forgotten until an exhibition in 2008 remembered her name.

The Apotheosis of a Witch
Death and the Maiden
Spring Fantasy
Fashion Goddess

#Art #ArtHistory #Witches

Scottish landscape painter John MacWhirter died #OTD 1911. He was greatly inspired by the Alps and Scotland's mountain landscapes.

Ossian's Grave
Mist on the Mountains
Before a Storm
June in the Austrian Tyrol

#Art #ArtHistory #Scotland #Alps #Mountains #Ossian

Édouard Manet was born #OTD 1832. Here are his illustrations from Stéphane Mallarmé’s French translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, or Le Corbeau (1875).

#Art #ArtHistory #Poe #EdgarAllanPoe #TheRaven #Raven

Arnold Böcklin died #OTD 1901. Best known for his Isle of the Dead paintings, inspired by the English Cemetery in Florence, and perhaps modeled from the Greek islet of Pontikonisi.

Self-portrait with Death
Isle of the Dead
Moonlit Landscape
Plague

#Art #ArtHistory #Romanticism