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What is your favorite Rococo painting?
Many list The Swing by Fragonard among their favorites. A naughty painting showing a young man trying to peek under the skirt of his lover.
Read more @ https://t.co/XcUPlb9SNs
#Rococo #Fragonard #ArtHistory #Art #Favorite
Following Seurat, The Dutch-Indonesian artist Jan Toorop also started to create landscapes using the pointillism technique. All the dots in the sky in Broek in Waterland create a magnificent twilight!
#Art #Toorop #ArtHistory #Pointillism @NewfieldsToday
Renoir loved to paint his family. His favorite model was his youngest son Claude, who is about four years old in this portrait, practicing on the easel.
#Renoir #Cute #Adorable #ArtHistory #Painting #Impressionism
Kandinsky started his career as a lawyer. But after seeing a painting of Monet, he decided to become an artist. Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 shows the relationships between different colors. Simple but powerful!
#Kandinsky #Colorful #ArtHistory
In 1870, the Louvre bought The Lacemaker by Vermeer for $254. Quite a nice investment for a painting that is worth tens of millions nowadays.
#Louvre #Vermeer #Lacemaker #GoodInvestment @MuseeLouvre
The Doni Tondo is the only panel painting that Michelangelo ever finished!
#michelangelo #arthistory #art @UffiziGalleries
@MaximusKat I agree that Gin Lane is definitely crazier 😆. Last week we discussed Gin Lane on the blog if you are interested: https://t.co/UlwAxEzdZP
Beer Street by William Hogarth shows that beer drinking leads to happiness and prosperity! And the British people have not forgotten this lesson.
Read more about this work @ https://t.co/eyI17FA27Y
#BeerStreet #Beer #Happiness #Hogarth #arthistory #art
Gin Lane (1751) by Hogarth contains many great details on what excessive gin drinking can do to your life: A drunk woman dropping her baby, two men fighting with a dog for a bone, and a big fight.
Read more @ https://t.co/UlwAxEzdZP
#GinLane #Hogarth #ArtHistory #Gin #Drunk
Blog of my visit to Frans Hals and the Moderns in the @FransHalsMuseum is up. Great exhibition about Hals' influence on Courbet, Manet, Van Gogh, and other (post-) Impressionists! Read more @ https://t.co/8zh6H7x7SU #FransHals #Impressionism #arthistory #MalleBabbe