The Art Thread

[Adrian]

Stained Glass artwork Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Polish Crown (Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv)

If you ever visit Lviv (I strongly recommend); make sure to visit the Latin Cathedral and adjacent chapels.

 

[Adrian]

Peter Nicolai Arbo, Asgårdsreien (1872) [Us[/USER]

 

[Agrippa]

Stephan Sindling: Valkyrie (1908)

 

[Quintilianus]

The horse is rightfully scared by the angle of that spear aimed right at his neck.

 

[Adrian]

Two artworks of Canaletto (1742)
The Arch of Constantine (left); Ruins of the Forum (right)

 

[Tironis]

1633 portrait of Francisco Zumel by Francisco de Zurbarán

 

[Adrian]

Richard Parkes Bonington, Paris. Quai du Louvre (1828)

 

[Terry S.]

'Sfunny how they omitted to include the mounds of horseshit on the roads in these old paintings.

 

[Adrian]

'Sfunny how they omitted to include the mounds of horseshit on the roads in these old paintings.

It's 1828, it's still Romanticism. Horseshit came later with Academism.

 

[Adrian]

Canaletto, San Marco Square (ca. 1743)

 

[Agrippa]

Samuel F. Brocas, Droichead na Life/Liffey Bridge ("Ha'Penny Bridge"), Dublin, 1818

 

[Adrian]

Liverpool seen through the eyes of John Atkinson Grimshaw (Romanticism, so don't expect horse manure)

Liverpool from Wapping (1875)

Liverpool Customs House

I can see no picture there.

I had some technical issues - problems with uploading the pics.

 

[Pacifica]

Portrait of Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie (phew, what a kilometric name!) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Look at the folds in the cloth of the woman's dress and chair, and how the textures are rendered. Also the jewelry. Zoom in if you can to see the details. Simply stunning!

And here's another piece by the same artist which I like very much: "Vergil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia and Octavia": https://www.artrenewal.org/Common/Image?imageId=127915

 

[Pacifica]

Liverpool by John Atkinson Grimshaw

I can see no picture there.

 

[Pacifica]

Liverpool seen through the eyes of John Atkinson Grimshaw (Romanticism, so don't expect horse manure)

Liverpool from Wapping (1875)
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Liverpool Customs House
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I had some technical issues - problems with uploading the pics.

Those are very nice, especially the first. It has been posted before, actually — was it by @Tironis, or did he only comment on it that the glow of the windows was hypnotic? I'm not sure.

 

[Adrian]

Those are very nice, especially the first. It has been posted before, actually — was it by @Tironis, or did he only comment on it that the glow of the windows was hypnotic? I'm not sure.

Oh dear, I haven't noticed Luckily Grimshaw is such a splendid cityscape painter that I might actually get away with it.

 

[Pacifica]

You sure do!

 

[Agrippa]

Jean Baptist van Meunincxhove, The Burg in Bruges (ca. 1695)

 

[Adrian]

Grimshaw's artwork contains one of the most beautiful autumn landscapes I have ever seen.

Autumn Morning

Knostrop Hall, Early Morning

 

[Pacifica]

Grimshaw's artwork contains one of the most beautiful autumn landscapes I have ever seen.

Autumn Morning

That is indeed very beautiful. And the leaves look so real!