Anya 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿さんのイラストまとめ

#apaintingaday a wee review of the galleries, I have visited beyond UK shores. San Marco Museum, Florence, a former convent where the cells are adorned with #Fra_Angelico designed frescos. These are exquisite & worth queuing at each cell to have a wee keek.

An ult. example of #exuberantly dancing - Tam O’Shanter

“Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn,
That while a lassie she had worn,
In longitude tho' sorely scanty,
It was her best,........
Wi twa pund Scots ('twas a' her riches),
Wad ever grac'd a dance of witches!” Pair Maggie #vss365

#apaintingaday a wee review of the galleries, I have visited beyond UK shores. Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence and the truly superb #BrancacciChapel. It is known as the ‘Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance’. Frescoes by #Masaccio

Otto Dix’s art reflected the fear, horror & the human cost of WWI. This saw the routine use of chemicals & the increased use of the #machine to fight. His art illustrates “man’s inhumanity to man”. The 3rd Reich glorified such warfare so declared him & his art degenerate #vss365

The 18th century was hot #chocolate’s heyday in London’s coffeehouse culture, where the beverages were a catalyst for culture, politics & passions. Served spiced with cinnamon, sugar, vanilla, chilli, rosewater, honey, pepper, jasmine or even ambergris (🤢) #vss365

#apaintingaday a wee review of the galleries, I have visited beyond UK shores. Santi Cosma e Damiano, Rome the lower portion of the building is accessible through the Roman Forum & incorporates original Roman buildings. The entrance to the upper level is outside the Forum.

Kandinsky composed with paint. He believed that colours represented notes.
So you can #sing his paintings?
I suppose so, if you knew the correct order.
Hmmm perhaps he left a clue?
Not again, Professor Langdon not everything is code or cypher
You would say that Cailleach #vss365

#happiness is an exhibition featuring wonderful artists. Currently #Artemisia @nationalgallery. A rarity - an Italian Renaissance professional artist, who happens to be *cough* a woman! She is compared to her Father #Orazio or #Caravaggio but that does not do her justice #vss365

#naked bodies aka The Nude is not fav topic in Russian art, unlike across Europe from #Renaisssence onwards. I always wondered why? The Cailleach shook her heid & muttered - dae ye ken how cauld it gets there?? Ye would have tae pose withoot yer simmit nae doot in a draft #vss365

@mapdevil I always felt Smaug was misunderstood