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And finally Heaven, as imagined by Dante by way of Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, in a 2014 edition of Paradiso.
It’s Monday on Twitter, so here’s St Michael vanquishing Satan in an oil painting by Raphael and his studio, an engraving by Nicolas Beatrizet, and a stained glass window in St Michael’s Church, Charleston SC, by the Tiffany Studios.
The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy (1907), by John Singer Sargent. The subjects are Jane and Wilfrid de Glehn.
Today on the ‘Cardiff Days Gone By’ FB page I’ve been sharing some of the Paris-based American artist Lionel Walden’s paintings of Cardiff’s docks and steelworks, painted in the 1890s. The first 3 pics are in @Museum_Cardiff, while the 4th is in @MuseeOrsay.
Three of these were formative. One not so much. https://t.co/dUXezyXYGV
18 months later...
(Pic: https://t.co/IsDyxGz41Y) https://t.co/hipRqWsPdO
Some great stuff in #ArtesMundi9. Firelei Baéz’s huge paintings a personal highlight. (Untitled - A Map of the British Empire in America)
https://t.co/JaoH9s1sEC
Born in 1712, Francesco Guardi remained in Venice throughout his life and painted a city in decline, depicting both its backwaters and famous landmarks in a rougher, more melancholic style.
@DrJaninaRamirez There's a similarly startled cow in this Tibaldi painting, 'The Companions of Ulysses Steal the Cattle of Helios'!