Our third paper in this panel comes from Krupa Desai from who reconsiders the new visual culture which emerged in post-colonial India in the 1950s as the State embraced visual propaganda photography of newly built dams

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Born Raoul Dufy witty French Fauvist & with a fashionably colourful decorative style set fashion for ceramics & textile designs + decorative schemes for public buildings Dufy never painted a depressed picture

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“David che calma i furori di Saul con l’arpa”(1852)

Silvestro Lega(1826-1895)

Galleria dell′Accademia, 🇮🇹

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"Something about what it means to be a human being is most embodied in an area of paint."
–Mira Schor

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“Colony Room I (The Colony Room)”

by Michael Andrews 🇬🇧 -( 30 ottobre 1928, Norwich, Regno Unito
- 19 luglio 1995, Londra, Regno Unito)

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The Genoese Noblewoman (1625-1627) by Anthony Van Dyck reflects dress trends of the early 17th century, particularly in Genoa, such as rich silks ornamented with metallic lace, starched ruffs and the deep "V" shaped bodice.




https://t.co/snwkFjZNjy

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"Im Schlachthaus" (In the slaughterhouse)
Corinth (German 1858–1925)
on canvas, 1893

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The Doni Tondo is the only panel painting that Michelangelo ever finished!

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At 9, she was a refugee—after fleeing Germany.
At 17, she helped England fight the Nazis.
At 45, she published her first children’s book.
At 95, she published her latest children’s book.

This is our post on the great Judith Kerr. https://t.co/HwEE4kELqy

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“Nascita del Battista”
è un dipinto di Domenico Bigordi

detto Ghirlandaio(1448-1494),

appartenente al ciclo degli “Affreschi della Cappella Tornabuoni”

in Santa Maria Novella a

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1844
Mary Cassatt was in what is now
"If you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up."

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"Tercer Victoria" (Third Victory)
(Mexican, 1908–1980)
on canvas 1960

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Beer Street by William Hogarth shows that beer drinking leads to happiness and prosperity! And the British people have not forgotten this lesson.

Read more about this work @ https://t.co/eyI17FA27Y

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Arpad Szenès (Hungarian-French, 1897-1985) - Portrait of Maria Helena, 1940.

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Girl with Porcelain (Frosya), 1916 by Aleksandr Golovin (1863 – 1930, russian painter)

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On this day in 1828 English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born. He was not only a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but also a poet and translator. The painting by Henry Treffry Dunn depicts Rossetti reading proofs of Ballads and Sonnets.

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