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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Hercules Wrestling with Death

Wonderful Neoclassical image of Hercules Wrestling with Death while in Thessaly, https://t.co/pfVNw6kKpc

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Picasso chose to depict Olga in a neoclassical manner (1920). She disliked his friends & avant-garde works so the style fitted. He would bring a monumentality to the classical style as shown in his Head of a Woman (1921) as well as his Mother & Child (1922)

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Painting of Helios (as Personification of Midday,c. 1765), Greek God and personification of the Sun by Neoclassical German painter Anton Raphael Mengs. He was the son of the Titans Hyperion&Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the dawn).#FolkloreThursday

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John William Godward (1861-1922).

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For ... an unusual late 17th century lead token, locally made but of neoclassical inspiration. Recorded remotely with . Who needs offices? (https://t.co/OF1D223oyV). If you are sitting on a pile of unrecorded artefacts, now's the time to get it sorted ...

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Stucco Work Cabinteely House, believed to be by the hand of Michael Stapleton Dublin (1747-1801) a skilled stuccodore working in the neoclassical or "Adam" style that dominated Dublin interior decoration in the final decades of the 18th century.

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Austria (1792-5) saw Le Brun move to a more neoclassical style, reflecting the rise of that school & the revolution in France. Marguerite Porporati (1792), Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland (1791) & Countess Kaganeck (1792). Her painting of Porporati is a masterpiece

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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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Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) painted this, The Funeral of Patroclus, in 1778. It is his first neoclassical work & he would go on to be the master of the neoclassical movement. It was painted in Rome. Now recognised as seminal in his oeuvre, it was once a table top!

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Neoclassical details.

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Hercules Wrestling with Death

Wonderful Neoclassical image of Hercules Wrestling with Death while in Thessaly, https://t.co/pfVNw6kKpc

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