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Why is the Creation of Adam so spectacular?
It engages us. We have to imagine the magical spark of life and want to help Adam and God touch fingers.
The Amuze app discusses this Michelangelo as part of the Vatican Museums tour.
#Art #Fresco #Michelangelo #Painting
This artificially colored self-portrait by Raphael is one of the most important missing paintings in world.
It was stolen by the Nazis and not been seen since 1945.
#Art #ArtHistory #Painting #Stolen #Missing
These angels have a great haircut! Only Rubens would paint them like this.
The Holy Women at the Sepulchre (1611-1614) is on display in the @NortonSimon Museum.
#Painting #Art #ArtHistory #Rubens #Angels
Metropolis (1916-1917) by George Grosz shows hell on earth. It is an apocalyptic vision of how cities and humans are destructing themselves.
@museothyssen #Madrid #Art #ArtHistory #Apocalypse
Can you win the staring contest?
Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles (1913) by Ignacio Zuloaga shows the brightly dressed countess staring at us provocatively.
@museobilbao #Art #ArtHistory #Painting #Museum
Monet finished about 250 paintings on water lilies. His main challenges included capturing the reflection of light on the water and the areas under the water.
@MFAH #Monet #Art #ArtHistory #WaterLilies
The air of mystery, Vermeer's trademark blue and yellow, the magical pearl, and the supreme mastery of incorporating light make the Girl with a Pearl Earring a true masterpiece!
@mauritshuis #Vermeer #Art #ArtHistory
Jean Fouquet's Madonna from 1452 is surreal! Look at the fake breasts, small waist, and the bright blue and red angels representing day and night.
#Madonna #Art #ArtHistory #Surreal #
Doni Tondo is the only finished panel painting by Michelangelo that has survived. And it is a magnificent one.
Large frescos, smaller paintings, and sculptures, this was great at all that he did!
#Michelangelo #Art #ArtHistory @UffiziGalleries
This was painted already in 1293!
These angels are a detail from the Last Jugdment fresco by Pietro Cavallini in the Church of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
#Art #Rome #Fresco #Arthistory #Modern