Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

The brilliant angels of Pietro Cavallini (1259 - 1330) emanate energy .The angels in Cavallini's last judgement have "multi-colour wings, like youths full of hope and good will." Cavallini, like Giotto, was a pioneer who led art from the Byzantium era into the Renaissance.

Born on this day in 1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union & helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag labor camp system, through his masterpiece "The Gulag Archipelago".

Nightscapes by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Derby is famed for "Painting the British Enlightenment". Depicting industrialisation and "the birth of science out of alchemy." His nocturnal landscapes are surprisingly sublime.

The captivating Double Exposures of Charles Swedlund (1935-). Swedlund, now 84, has spent a lifetime experimenting with the limits of photographic image making. He lives and works in Illinois.

The astounding Post Apocalyptic art of Chinese artist Jia Aili. Painted with the brilliance of an old master his art "represents the troubles of his lonely generation, marked with the absence of siblings and with the pursuit of technological progress."

One Day (soon) the idea that the Universe is flat, may seem as antiquated and absurd as the idea of the earth being flat. New findings threaten the model of the shape of the universe that we have held since the 60s. https://t.co/9w6Bz6F0q2

A Modern Ophelia. Constantin Meunier (1831-1905,) was a Belgian painter & sculptor. His art elevated the industrial worker to icons of modernity, reflecting the industrial, social & political developments of his day. His Ophelia seems to be a victim of the industrial city beyond.

Strange Things on the Moon. They're not alien colonies, according to Google Moon - they're "processing artifact(s)" on film images "taken by one of the Lunar Orbiter satellites in the mid-1960s." Oddly, these old images are "still the best images available of much of the Moon"

The darkly brilliant illustrations of Edmond Dulac (1882 – 1953). A prolific golden-age illustrator who had a particular affinity with the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Strangely, he also "designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps"!

By Candlelight. Gottfried Schalken (1643-1706) was a Dutch genre & portrait painter noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He attempted to relocate to England (1692–1697) "but his uncouth manners & bad temper alienated him from society"