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Universally considered one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo devoted four years to painting the vast ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel.
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Michelangelo Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto) @ClevelandArt
Paula Modersohn-Becker's career was extremely brief but prolific before dying from complications of childbirth at age 31. Read more: https://t.co/5Vk6bop5m6
@ClevelandArt Seated Female Nude (Self-Portrait?)
c. 1899 Paula Modersohn-Becker
Back in Brazil in 1882, he set up his studio in São Paulo in the following year,where he portrayed various personalities of Brazilian society, including Princess Isabel and Emperor D. Pedro II. @pinacotecasp collection Reading by Jose Ferraz Almeida Júnior https://t.co/mBRo1sXaWe
The only one of his landscapes set at night, Landscape with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt is a Biblical scene depicting Joseph and his family fleeing King Herod. 🏛 @DulwichGallery #exhibition Rembrandt van Rijn, 1647 @NGIreland collection 📖📲 https://t.co/EI4xHClRBm
Dreamy, pensive, bored—whatever your interpretation of the girl’s expression, French artist Berthe Morisot captured a serene mood in Julie Daydreaming, a portrait of her 16-year-old daughter. 🏛 private collection Julie Daydreaming, Berthe Morisot 1894 📖 https://t.co/cAsLvt46dQ
It was while undergoing treatment for #alcoholism at a sanitarium on the outskirts of Paris in 1899 that Toulouse Lautrec produced an ambitious group of crayon and chalk drawings of circus figures. @metmuseum At the Circus: The Spanish Walk 📖 https://t.co/U8aZRPdruW
Beginning, roughly in 1955, after a period of painting direct, simple images as statement (Tableau Vivant; The Blue Waltz; Death and the Maiden...), my painted compositions began to shift and merge in an ever intensifying complexity of planes. - Dorothea Tanning, Insomnies @Tate
Art history teaches breast-feeding in public is hardly new... This painting was painted in 1931 by Ernst Neuschul, who was born near Prague in 1895 to a Jewish family. „Mother” 1931 New Walk Museum and Art Gallery @leicestermuseum