WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAKさんのイラストまとめ

Easter Sunday. Mary Magdalene's big day! She's the first one to see the Risen Christ. But doesn't recognise him, and mistakes him for a gardener. Art has had lots of fun depicting Christ the gardener! Rembrandt gave him a floppy hat. Fra Angelico a hoe. Also a few spades. 1/

People have been asking an excellent contemporary Good Friday question: Are there any Crucifixions by women painters? Not so many, but a few. Below clockwise Virginia Vezzi, Elisabetta Sirani, Caterina van Hemessen, Plautilla Nelli. Artemisia didn't paint one. Nor Sofonisba.

@Martin61Herring Hello Latvia!

Unfortunately, the great French romantic painter Theodore Gericault did not paint the Cheltenham Gold Cup. But he did paint the Epsom Derby! In 1821! The winner was Gustavus, the first grey horse to win the Derby. So far, he's only third!

2/ It also seems that Van Dyck played a role in the education of my man, William Dobson, who succeeded him as court painter to Charles 1st. On the left, Van Dyck self-portrait with Endymion Porter. On the right, Dobson's Endymion Porter. Who would rather have been painted by?

Beep beep. It's the birthday of the brilliant Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). Pupil of Rubens. Genius. Outrageous flatterer. Quick hands. Capable of deep emotion. Great self-portraits. Great painter of women. Hugely important in the story of British art. Bendy's favourite artist.1/

Beep beep. It's the birthday of Hans Fredrik Gude ( 1825-1903), the Norwegian Friedrich. He was basically a Romantic, who searched out huge and resonant bits of nature, and did that thing with them where they make you feel small and seem to speak directly to the human spirit. 1/

Beep beep. It's the birthday of the Italian sculptor Marino Marini (1901-1980 ) - so bad they name him twice. His speciality was bronze horses ridden by naked men, supposedly influenced by Etruscan art. The most famous is called The Angel of the City and is found outside the..

Beep beep. It's the birthday of the excellently savage Honore Daumier (1808-1879). Yes, he was a really original painter, but today I'm celebrating the jugular-targetting cartoonist. They don't make them like that any more! His attacks on Louis-Philippe got him sent to .. 1/

Just recorded tomorrow's Waldy&Bendy podcast. It's a stormer! Britain's greatest forger, Shaun Greenhalgh, pops up in an intimate interview. And we tackle that wild wind of a painter - El Greco! Plus my housemate from another era - Georgiana Houghton! Someone call Ghostbusters!