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In this painting on silk, Nagasawa Rosetsu captures the playfulness of some adorable even giving them smiles as they watch a butterfly land on a rose. (#18thcentury, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art).

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2020-08-08

It's Do you know this beautiful painting?

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2020-06-30

The courtship ritual of giving a young woman a bird in a cage symbolized that she held his heart. In the background, a Temple of Vesta has connotations of and 2/

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2020-06-16

William Hogarth painted this portrait of actor David Garrick as Richard III in 1745 (). It is the first great British theatrical portrait, but presents the scene as a history painting.

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2020-05-29

HECAA is proud to announce the latest issue of Journal18, featuring articles deriving from research presented at the HECAA at 25 conference in 2018! Check out 4 fabulous articles by emerging scholars & a “roundtable” of reflections on the conference & the state of the field. 1/

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2020-04-11

Thomas Lawrence painted this portrait of Irish poet Catherine Grey in the guise of hence the peacock (1794, ). However, she rejected it & it never sold when he exhibited it at the Royal Academy later that year.

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2020-03-18

It’s Do you recognize the source for these angry babies?

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2020-01-07

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard painted this portrait of Madame Adélaïde, daughter of Louis XV, in 1787 after the original version that now hangs at Versailles & kept it for herself. She beautifully captures the sheen of the silver dress Madame Adélaïde wears.

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2019-11-30

Edmonia Lewis was one of the earliest women to make a living as a professional sculptor. Lewis incorporated her African American and Ojibwa heritage into her work using the Neoclassical style, frequently by depicting women. 1/

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2019-11-26

Louis Jean Desprez produced Tomb with Sphinx (c. 1779-1784, Cleveland Museum of Art) using aquatint and engraving printmaking techniques. He drew inspiration from southern Italian catacombs, but added fictional elements like the feet of the deceased.

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2019-11-23

These porcelain flowers are from the Vincennes Manufactory (1740s), which employed 45 women to produce such works. The basket, however, is the product of the Meissen Manufactory (1751). ()

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2019-10-19

This console table is the only known example of ceramic furniture from the Alcora Manufactory in Spain (1761-63, ). The 10th Count of Aranda likely commissioned it for inclusion in a “#porcelain room.”

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2019-10-03

It’s Any idea who produced this book of scientific illustrations?

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2019-09-23

While the sculpture is meant to be viewed straight on, as in original painting, the viewer can walk around the figure and thus become the men in the 18th c. version. 3/3

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2019-09-05

Happy Labor Day! Today we honor workers and laborers. This print by William Hincks, published in 1791, shows women workers in the linen industry in Ireland, spinning and boiling yarn.

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2019-09-02

It’s so let’s do something different for These are tough ones, but can you guess the origin of each of these works of art featuring dogs?

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2019-08-26