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It’s #MicroMonday! Anyone recognize this work?
#HECAA #arthistory #art #18thcentury
These porcelain flowers are from the Vincennes Manufactory (1740s), which employed 45 women to produce such works. The basket, however, is the product of the Meissen Manufactory (1751). (@TheWadsworth)
#HECAA #18thcentury #womensart #decarts #arthistory #porcelain #flowers #art
It’s #IndigenousPeoplesDay! For today’s #MicroMonday, we take a closer look at this #Ojibwe ball-headed club reminiscent of an animal clutching a ball in its jaws (late 18th-early 19th c, @ClevelandArt). All sides of the shaft are carved with animals, including the thunderbird.1/
This console table is the only known example of ceramic furniture from the Alcora Manufactory in Spain (1761-63, @mfaboston). The 10th Count of Aranda likely commissioned it for inclusion in a “#porcelain room.”
#HECAA #18thcentury #ceramics #decarts #arthistory #furniture #art
@studiousgal @aksagal @artsmia Merian's work on insects is considered a significant contribution to the field of entomology. In 1685, at the age of 52, she traveled to Suriname with her daughter (w/no male companion!) & spent 2 years studying and drawing the indigenous flora and fauna. 2/
It’s #MicroMonday! Any idea who produced this book of scientific illustrations?
#HECAA #arthistory #scientificillustration
@Tate @SHONIBARESTUDIO While the sculpture is meant to be viewed straight on, as in #Fragonard’s original painting, the viewer can walk around the figure and thus become the men in the 18th c. version. 3/3 #HECAA #c18 #arthistory #TheSwing #rococo #textiles #sculpture #installation
Happy Labor Day! Today we honor workers and laborers. This print by William Hincks, published in 1791, shows women workers in the linen industry in Ireland, spinning and boiling yarn.
#HECAA #c18 #printmaking #LaborDay #Ireland #IrishArt #WomenWorkers #textiles
It’s #InternationalDogDay, so let’s do something different for #MicroMonday! These are tough ones, but can you guess the origin of each of these works of art featuring dogs? #HECAA #c18 #painting #arthistory
@Stephen25367746 correctly guessed yesterday’s #MicroMonday! This is a sculpture by Antonio Canova from 1804, now in the Galleria Borghese. Prince Camillo Borghese commissioned this work of his wife Paolina, sister of the emperor Napoleon.
#HECAA #arthistory #c19 #sculpture