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Enviable Renaissance sculpture-fest @ngadc with shows on both Verrocchio (the lithe David) and Berruguete (a somewhat casual Ecce Homo)
Greuze really shouldn't have been asked to paint a full-length, formal portrait of #Napoleon.
Pieter (Piat) Joseph Sauvage produced the most sophisticated of all trompe l'oeil decorations - showing off his ability to imitate, as here, marble, plaster, gilt and bronze
Angel's Glasgow kiss (headbutt) for St Peter in François Perrier's painting of the parting of Peter and Paul
Wish I was there moment. Thomas Fearnley's sketch - though it hardly seem like - @artinstitutechi
@neiljeffares Indeed: but he really comes from the same place. For intensity, move on a few decades to the monomanics of #Géricault and, perhaps in a similar observational vein, #Constable
Heavens, the van Dyck @NationalGallery which has not been on show for a generation or more currently in the main galleries. Bought in 1922 for £15,000 as genuine but downgraded - by some - since as style of
Even more than Murillo, #Coello (Claudio not Alonso Sanchez) is the most Baroque of 17thc Spanish artists, The Triumph of St Augustine (1664) @museodelprado