🎨🦟🐜🦗🌿Schizodactylus monstrosus, a large cricket found in Asia. "The Naturalist's Miscellany" by George Shaw (1789-1813)#mjsartstories

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Grandville's ability for political provocation made his work much in demand.
Scenes from the private/public life of animals, 1840-42.

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...creating an archive of preparatory drawings for the lithographs before her death was not adequately recognized.

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Carle Vernet exhibited this drawing and its pendant, The Return from the Race,at the Salon of 1800, where they received wide acclaim. So popular were the scenes that another artist then produced engravings after them, which were exhibited at the Salon of 1808.

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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly, given it in its place. - C.S. Lewis ⁠
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Custom artwork for a special mom and her rainbow baby. Love to all on ⁠#arthelps

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Thanks to the use of and increasingly complex methods of analysis, we can now see a digital reproduction of a hidden figure, painted underneath the old man’s portrait.

Two Rembrandts in one, and additional insight into his methods of work.

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The Carnival in Italy, and particularly in Venice, was a period when, like in a game of make-believe, anybody could a part, and roles could be reversed. Loaded with political and social implications, it is here masterfully captured in its joyful character.

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It’s today!

Maybe not many of us will just casually resemble the Three Graces while playing badminton, but finding moments for inside or outside, is surely beneficial, and not just for kids!

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The detail I find the most evocative in this unusual, and perhaps at first glance melancholic, representation of is how she keeps on playing her lyre, using its one string left.

Let’s keep playing our music, it might turn out to be unexpectedly beautiful!

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In a crossover between and drink, enjoy a teapot that looks like a pineapple – a luxurious fruit to hold a luxurious drink!

To grow a pineapple in Britain was so difficult and expensive it was worthy of celebration with a painting and inscription.

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What I think is extraordinarily effective about Emin’s neon signs is the directness and simplicity of the messages, familiar thoughts we would not perhaps pay too much attention to, that are instead magnified and become expressed in the most noticeable form.

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Until travel is possible again, we can create a virtual tour inspired by the travels of artists.

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