Astonishing quilt rivaling intarsia for its textured illusion. LeAnn Hileman, Where Once A Tree Was Standing. @SJMQT #textileart
Four #TinySheep in sacred conversation. Antonio de Torres, Sacred Conversation with the Kmmaculate Conception and Divine Shepherd, 1719. Oil on canvas, at @LACMA for the Archive of the World show.
Key candidate for creepiest God hands. Pedro Ramirez el Mozo, Marriage of the Virgin, 1668. Oil on canvas on panel. I’m @lacma’s Archive of the World exhibit.
In case you don’t know, San Jose Museum of Art is conventionally open 5-9 on Thursday which makes a nice after dinner date. Plus look at this amazing painting on adobe! rafa esparza, Yosi con abuela, 2021. Acrylic on adobe.
This 15th c. sculpted head of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven was found thrown in a waste pit outside the city walls. It was probably pulled off part of the church , attacked directly in the face and then thrown outside. 1534 riots in Zürich were part of the Iconoclastic Fury
Tiniest of tiny sheep. Taddeo di Bartolo, St. Agnes, with lamb attribute. 1415-20. Private Collection.
Grisaille is associated with Northern Renaissance art (shoutout Van Eyck), but Italians did it too. Andrea Mantegna's Judith & Holofernes.
Henri Matisse, Self Portrait 1937. I love the glasses and eyebrow combo. @ngadc #arthistory #glasses