Clare McLeodさんのイラストまとめ

Guido Reni (1575-1642) was an Italian artist in the Baroque style producing mainly idealised and emotional religious works. Look out for eyeballs rolling to heaven in many of his works. Self Portrait, Woman with Bowl, St Cecilia, Mary Magdalene. #arthistory

Tonight at 9.00pm on BBC4 there’s a programme about the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.

Today is the Feast Day of St James the Apostle. He was the first Apostle to die for the Christian faith when he was beheaded by King Herod Agrippa. He was with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Paintings by Rubens, Fra Angelica, El Greco and Durer. #StJames

I hope Verdi’s Macbeth will be the first opera I shall see when theatres reopen. I keep a watchful eye on all major opera companies. Here’s Macbeth on the blasted heath by John Martin c.1820, part of the collection of @NatGalleriesSco

2/3 Vincente Carducho (1576-1638) was an Italian painter who was commissioned by Philip IV of Spain to create a series of paintings to commemorate the founding of the Carthusian Order of monks. This painting of St Anthelm being made bishop is from this cycle.

2/3 Here are a few more paintings from the French Rococo painter Fragonard ….. The Musical Contest c.1745; The Souvenir c.1775; The Declaration of Love 1773; The Shepherdess c.1750

1/3 The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806). You can identify his works by his pink and green palette, chubby statues, lapdogs and long delicate fingers. You can see this painting in @WallaceMuseum ….

Today is the Feast Day of Isaiah the Prophet and here is another beautiful piece of art depicting him. Part of an altarpiece from Siena Cathedral by the artist Duccio (1255-1318) the central panel depicts the nativity with Isaiah foretelling Jesus’ birth.

Today is the feast day of the Prophet Isaiah, an 8th century BC prophet after whom the biblical Book of Isaiah is named. Here he is as a fresco painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, distracted from his book by a winged child (putti)

1/4 Some of the treasures contained in my bargain from Troon …..