Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

Enjoying these delicate images from the unheralded Isabel Adams’ Wild Flowers of the British Isles (1907) ~ poppies ■ blackberry ■ crocus and iris https://t.co/9fso54jcmd

The newly-invented telescope may have been used by Adam Elsheimer in depicting the stars in this tiny A4 size ‘Flight into Egypt’ ~ the first naturalistic depiction of a night sky in Renaissance art (1609) & big influence on Rembrandt’s later version (R) https://t.co/Z0OPc1DDWl

Gainsborough paints his daughter Margaret reaching impulsively for a white butterfly on spiky bush, gently restrained by older sister Mary. The girls’ linked figures also echo a butterfly’s shape, reminding us of their innocence & beauty, and that their youth is fleeting (1756)

Two of my favourite frescoes from Pompeii that survived the eruption in 79AD ~ elegant, barefoot young woman, possibly the nymph Flora, treading lightly, carrying basket & turning to gather spring flowers (from Villa Arianna) ■ and basket of figs (Poppea’s Villa)

Martin Schongauer’s studies of peonies are among the earliest surviving northern European botanical studies drawn from life, & he was a strong influence on Dürer. The flowers reappear in his ‘Madonna of the Rose Garden’ in the Dominican Church (1873) in Colmar, France

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, with hints of the riotous colour that was to come (Bulb Fields, 1883)

Art restorers literally wiped the modest smile off this 16C painting of a vegetable seller, after they discovered that it had been added during the 18/19C (along with a 30 cm strip across the top). At R, the newly-restored, cleaner, smile-free version
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Here’s Elizabeth Tanfield/Cary, 17C child prodigy who developed into a scholar, poet, dramatist, translator & historian, the first woman to have written & published a play in English (Tragedy of Mariam). Here, two richly-dressed portraits of her with her favourite spangly shoes

Marie Spartali Stillman started as Pre-Raphaelite model & developed into an artist in her own right ~ Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni 1884 (The Stone Madonna, based on Dante poem) / Enchanted garden (1889) / Self-portrait (charcoal, 1871)

20th century Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky’s fascination with vibrant colour remained a feature of his works even as they progressively moved toward abstraction ~ Couple on Horseback / Landscape with Factory Chimney / First Abstract Watercolour (1906-1910)