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This scene of winter revellers on Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, in 1876 by Charles Altamont Doyle is providing us endless entertainment for today's #MuseumsUnlocked theme of 'wintertime'❄️
What shenanigans can you spot? Get that magnifying glass out and show us your favourites!🔎
#MuseumsUnlocked During 'Little Ice Age' 1300-1870 Thames froze over. #Winter frost fairs held from 1608 (#1), and (#2 1684, #3 1715) featured rides, games, printing presses, ox/mutton roasts, taverns, music, poets and gingerbread (#4 from last fair 1814). From @MuseumofLondon
Snow Viewing at Mokubo-ji Temple: The Uekiya Restaurant, 1838–40 by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858). Japanese prints of #Winter celebrate the fleeting beauty of snow, one of the Three Beauties of Nature, ‘snow, moon and flowers’. #MuseumsUnlocked https://t.co/vxm0j26T56
From twilight to moonlight...
Close inspection of this summertime landscape, painted c.1835 by Irish artist James Arthur O'Connor, reveals a wealth of nocturnal river activity.
This painting entered the collection in 1998 through the Fr McGrath Bequest. #MuseumsUnlocked
The Night-time phenomenon "Will-o'-the-Wisp" features in folklore throughout the world. Here depicted in "Das Irrlicht" by Arnold Böcklin. Also, musically in Winterreise 9:
"In die tiefsten Felsengründe/Lockte mich ein Irrlicht hin." #MuseumsUnlocked Day 124
Day 124 Dusk & Night #MuseumsUnlocked @profdanhicks Ian Whittlesea, The sun is but a morning star, 2011, two prints derived from the title page of Thoreau’s Walden.
Magnificent hand-coloured etching of Castel Sant'Angelo from the other side of the Tiber at #night, with a crowd of spectators in the foreground and a firework display in the background.
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#MuseumsUnlocked #CoinsAndMedals Although euros are accepted, the kuna is the currency of Croatia. Kuna = marten, the weasel with valuable fur. There’s a kuna animal on the coat of arms of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia seen on the roof tiles of St. Mark’s Church in Zagreb.
Storm 2 of 2 for #MuseumsUnlocked Day122 #Storms: a sublime and picturesque Brighton storm, by none other than JMW Turner. One of very few pictures by him showing the Royal Pavilion. He probably sketched this in 1824 from a boat off the Chain Pier (see Storm 1) @BrightonMuseums
Watching a storm... I'm not sure I'd stop and paint it, think I'd run off home! ⚡️ #MuseumsUnlocked
From the Monument Hill - Thunderstorm by Elijah Walton, c. 1852.
Day 122 #storms #MuseumsUnlocked "Ships and Whales in a Tempest," c.1595 -by The PdP Monogrammist. Early example of Dutch “realistic” marine painting; the earliest marine painting in the Western Hemisphere. #whalingmuseum https://t.co/xrNVVE24nF
#MuseumsUnlocked - Storms
Not my usual stuff, but I'm also a massive comic fan, so...
Here's Halle Berry's Ororo Munroe/Storm Costume from the 2014 film 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
Image: National Museum of American History (2014.0076.02)
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633): Rembrandt's only sea-scape. It was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston until it was stolen in 1990: it was never recovered. #MuseumsUnlocked Day122 Storms
You can really feel the storm form this painting. 'The Fishery' by Richard Wright (c.1723–c.1775) #Storms
https://t.co/8P3xmZLlM0
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'St Nicholas of Bari Rebuking the Storm' by Bicci di Lorenzo (1380s-1452). The saint comes to the rescue of sailors caught in a storm - note the fleeing #mermaid in the bottom left corner. This gem is in the #AshmoleanMuseum, Oxford. #MuseumsUnlocked #Storms
Dancing Peucetian women. Tomb of the dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. C5th/C4th BCE. Now @MANNapoli
Peucetians - people in ancient Apulia (between Bari & Tarentum).
#ItalyBeforeTheRomans
The colours & movement of this painting are so spectacular!
#MuseumsUnlocked #Dance
"To caper nimbly in a Lady's Chamber to the lascivious pleasing of a Lute." Put some music on and have a #Dance for #MuseumsUnlocked today!
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850.
#MuseumsUnlocked One type of "offerings" found in Bornholm "woodhenges" were burned flint axes...When flint is heated it explodes with loud bangs. These were basically #Neolithic firecrackers 🙂 spirting razor sharp flakes everywhere as they exploded. Cool https://t.co/Y4K51uWnjw
For #MuseumsUnlocked #neolithic Stonehenge, a woodcut by Tokyo-born Yoshijiro Urushibara, aka 'Mokuchū' (1888-1953). He worked in the UK, France, USA and was an important influence on the development of the colour woodcut in UK art schools in the 1920s. @AberArtSchool colls.
We draw today's #MuseumsUnlocked thread to a close with a light-hearted drawing from Jack B. Yeats...
Found on the verso of another drawing, this image depicts a boy in roller skates coming to the aid of another whose foot has become stuck in a hole in a sidewalk. Growing pains!