Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

20C Czech artist TF Šimon depicts his wife Vilma in the idyllic garden of their Paris house/studio

Marie Spartali Stillman started as Pre-raphaelite model & developed into an artist in her own right ~ Enchanted garden 1889 / Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni 1884 / Long Walk at Kelmscott Manor

TL Busby’s Costume of the Lower Orders of London (1820) includes identifiable characters that would probably have been popularly known by name, such as Joseph Hill, the bell-ringer / Billy Waters, the one-legged dancing fiddler / and Jemmy Lovel the tinker

Yes doctor (voice breaks), I’m afraid it looks like a severe case of man-flu (Gustave Dore,‘Don Quixote of La Mancha’, 1866)

NEW ARTICLE: Our latest article looks at the extraordinary career of Granville Redmond ~ deaf artist, silent movie actor and mentor to Charlie Chaplin https://t.co/3X18EB1C4c

Giotto, one of the major innovators in Italian art, died #OTD 1337 ~ so it’s a perfect excuse to check out the angels with evanescent tails that soar and hover in his early 14C frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua

This scene of beds of tulip bulbs is Vincent van Gogh’s first garden painting. It represents a transitional period when he starts to move away from the darkness of his earlier works, and hints of the riotous colour that was to come (Bulb Fields, 1883)

Darkly atmospheric sketches by Victor Hugo, 19C author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame

In the late 16C, Italian artist/ botanist Gherardo Cibo spent two decades creating illustrations, such as these, for a new edition of a classic book on herbal medicine written by the Greek physician Dioscorides 1,500 years before https://t.co/GHHKx2RzIM

On his exile to Elba, Napoleon vowed he’d return to Paris the next year, like his favourite flower, the violet, did each spring. Here, Canu celebrates that return in March 1815 by hiding silhouettes of Napoleon, his son & 2nd wife Marie Louise in bunch of violets (Clues at R)