Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

From 17C, shepherds in the Landes region of S-W France used stilts as mini-observation towers and to traverse marshy ground ~ here, herding the sheep ■ stilted shepherd sits knitting (woollies, obviously) ■ & as a traditional folk performance in 1936

Just outside Paris, Gustave Caillebotte goes down to the Yerres River on his family property and depicts the effects of raindrops / waterlilies / and paddlers on the gleaming water. BTW, you can still visit his house/museum there https://t.co/9nLUyQf1KZ

JUST PUBLISHED: our new article, The Two Women in White, examines two works featuring extraordinary women that enthralled & shocked 1860s Britain ~ Wilkie Collins’ bestselling novel & Whistler’s outrageous portrait

Based on fossils found by Mary Anning, this is Prehistoric Dorset, as imagined in watercolour by geologist Henry De la Beche, the first major scientifically-based pictorial representation of prehistoric life (1830). At R, later revised lithograph by George Scharf

Somewhere in this flurry of Manet’s brushstrokes is Bob the Dog (1876). Variously described as a ‘Chien Griffon’ or Cairn Terrier, Bob probably belonged to Manet’s friend Jean-Baptiste Faure, opera singer & art patron (The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection) https://t.co/6HSthh4le0

From ‘Hortus Eystettensis’, earliest-known large folio botanical book, hand-coloured engravings by German botanist Basilius Besler, who spent 16 years on the project ~ Melocactos (‘Mother-in-law’s Cushion’) / Vegetable Artichoke / Sunflower (1613)
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These depictions of Venice demonstrate the different styles of Manet’s realism, Monet’s more dreamlike visions and Sargent’s immediacy

This is the moment when the resurrected Jesus reveals his identity to astonished followers ~ contrast Rembrandt’s atmospheric, almost cinematic Supper at Emmaus (1628) ■ Caravaggio’s more theatrical version (1601) ■ & forger van Meegeren’s fake Vermeer (1937)

1/2 You may be familiar with the Lamb of God panel (at far R) and adjoining panels in the Eyck brothers’ famous Ghent Altarpiece (1432). Now discover the distant cities, gardens and forests in the lands that form their dream-like background…

It’s remarkable how this simple-looking sketch can give us such an illusion of personal contact with this young noblewoman who lived some 500 years ago ~ portrait drawing of Anne Cresacre by Hans Holbein the Younger (c1527, detail, black & coloured chalk) https://t.co/VZD3PPXXh2