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Today's @museumweek theme is #CaptionThisMW so hit us with your best captions for our paintings!
Here's a few to get you started...
Green scallop shells, mouth-watering cherries and golden dolphins, Imogen Tedbury investigates Tura's mysterious Muse in 10 minutes: https://t.co/hfcgKxWC2r
El Greco died #OnThisDay in 1614. Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete (then ruled by Venice), he was known as ‘The Greek’ (El Greco). He trained in Venice, where he developed his intense, colourful Mannerist style: https://t.co/b2BqanlntT
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born #OnThisDay in 1732. This painting illustrates an episode from the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche. It's an early work by Fragonard and it was an immediate success - it was exhibited at Versailles in 1754: https://t.co/SgO78LiOJF
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#DidYouKnow? This painting by Meindert Hobbema inspired Vincent van Gogh, who emulated its effects in several paintings after he first saw it in the National Gallery in 1884, and it probably also inspired Camille Pissarro’s 'The Avenue, Sydenham: https://t.co/ip330oRdYF
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Raised near Lake Geneva, Alexandre Calame soon became the leading Swiss landscape artist of his generation. Completed in 1854, this painting shows a tranquil lake. The slight browning of some of the foliage suggests it may be late summer or early autumn: https://t.co/IfpCReowQU
This painting is a strange fiction: roses and tulips, lilac and snake’s head lilies, aren't all in bloom at the same time, so the artist would have made drawings and sketches of them at different times of the year, later incorporating them into the picture https://t.co/LrbBFqlFSw
We'll always have nature and art. Van Gogh saw the two as interconnected.
Take 5 minutes for a slow look at his 'Wheatfield, with Cypresses': https://t.co/SctND73z3Q