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William Clarke Wontner(1857-1930)English portrait painter steeped in Academic Classicism & Romantic. Son of a noted architect. Movement: Orientalist; Neoclassicism; Academic Classicism

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2020-06-18

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

It's the Day of Kronos / /

Engraving showing a statue of Saturnus standing naked on a socle, holding a scythe in his right hand and a child in his left hand.
After Jacques Jonghelinck, 1586

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2020-06-06

Landscape with the nymph Egeria and Numa, 1669

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2020-05-23

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun(1755-1842)French portrait painter of the late 18th century. Style is considered part of the aftermath of Rococo w/elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Subject matter/color palette classified Rococo, but style is aligned w/emergence of Neoclassicism.

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2020-05-10

Landscape with Rest in Flight to Egypt, 1666

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2020-05-08

The Sigh (1923) brings a lyrical quality to his classicism. The Ballet would lead to one of his greatest drawings Two Dancers (1925). He also experimented with form to see how the mind could reassemble it to create Study of Cannes (1927) which is a woman unlocking a beach hut.

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2020-04-10

Self-portrait of Nicolas Poussin from 1630, while recovering from a serious illness, Nicolas Poussin, 1630 https://t.co/dgjdPnahc6

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2020-03-29

March 26, 1794: German painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld is born.

Von Carolsfeld is associated with the Nazarene movement: A reaction against 18th-century Neoclassicism, and a return to art with a moral or religious purpose.

🎨 "Domine Quo Vadis", 1843

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2020-03-26