John Herreidさんのイラストまとめ

Black Clouds / Death and Conflagration / Pestilence

Painted sketches for a triptych titled "Disaster" by Albert Chmielowski, 1870. In the 1880s he left his painting career behind to serve the poor. His life inspired another man to choose a religious vocation: Karol Wojtyla.

Oil painting of the Immaculate Conception that is currently up for auction. Anybody know what the significance of the putto using a mirror to light a candle from the Holy Spirit is? And then the blindfolded putto?

Auction link: https://t.co/wNhCJy5OOi

@PylesofBooks

Gabriel von Max used photography to capture the poses of his monkeys, sometime dressing them in human clothes or creating images that evoked classical subjects such as memento mori images.

Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) was an Austrian painter who really, really liked monkeys. Finding success as a painter of legends and religious scenes, he purchased large numbers of them to have at his estate. The image on the right is a self-portrait with one of them.

So, Stephen Fry as G.K. Chesterton, basically, if you know the comics. https://t.co/UQg5zdqcux

"Angels of the Night" by William Degouve de Nuncques, 1891.

Madonna and Child by Vicente Manansala.

Illustration by Milo Winter (1888 – 1956), via my friend Timothy Jones.

A drawing for A Voyage to the Moon by Georges Méliès, 1902.