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