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🎨 Sunlight in the Blue Room🧑🏻‍🎨 Anna Ancher🗓️ 1891
04/04/2023

🎨 Sunlight in the Blue Room
🧑🏻‍🎨 Anna Ancher
🗓️ 1891

🎨 The Feast of the Gods at the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis🧑🏻‍🎨 Abraham Bloemaert🗓️ 1638 ...
28/03/2023

🎨 The Feast of the Gods at the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
🧑🏻‍🎨 Abraham Bloemaert
🗓️ 1638

🎨 Les Meules de blé🧑🏻‍🎨 Raphaël Toussaint🗓️ 1919
28/03/2023

🎨 Les Meules de blé
🧑🏻‍🎨 Raphaël Toussaint
🗓️ 1919

🎨 Siesta🧑🏻‍🎨 Frederick Arthur Bridgman🗓️ 1878
26/03/2023

🎨 Siesta
🧑🏻‍🎨 Frederick Arthur Bridgman
🗓️ 1878

🎨Along the Ghats - Mathura🧑🏻‍🎨 Edwin Lord Weeks🗓️ 1880
25/03/2023

🎨Along the Ghats - Mathura
🧑🏻‍🎨 Edwin Lord Weeks
🗓️ 1880

PrimaveraSandro Botticelli1477-1482
20/03/2023

Primavera
Sandro Botticelli
1477-1482

Marianne Stokes"The Passing Train"1890
11/08/2022

Marianne Stokes
"The Passing Train"
1890

Annunciatory AngelFra Angelico
31/07/2022

Annunciatory Angel
Fra Angelico

Cassis, Cap Lombard, Opus 196 | Paul Signac
23/06/2022

Cassis, Cap Lombard, Opus 196 | Paul Signac

Bia de’ Medici | Agnolo BronzinoAgnolo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. He was also the artist o...
21/06/2022

Bia de’ Medici | Agnolo Bronzino
Agnolo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. He was also the artist of the powerful Medici family, who ruled Florence at the time. He first received Medici patronage in 1539, when he was one of the many artists chosen to execute the elaborate decorations for the wedding of Cosimo I de' Medici to Eleonora di Toledo, daughter of the Viceroy of Naples. It was not long before he became, and remained for most of his career, the official court painter of the Duke and his court. His portrait figures—often read as static, elegant, and stylish exemplars of unemotional haughtiness and assurance—influenced the course of European court portraiture for a century.
Today we present the portrait of the little Bianca, Bia, who was the daughter of Cosimo, born before his marriage in 1539.
In 1560, Francesco Maria II della Rovere’s ambassador to Tuscany, Simone Fortuna wrote in a letter that Cosimo “in his first years as duke, had, by a noblewoman of Florence, a girl who was baptized in the name of His Illustrious Excellence, and called Bia. And the Lady Duchess, finding her in her home, was raising the girl lovingly, as she was born to her husband before she became his wife.” The young girl was therefore brought up, as often happened, alongside the legitimate children of the household, surrounded by the affection of Eleanor of Toledo and her grandmother, Maria Salviati, with whom she spent a great deal of time and who was particularly fond of her.
Unfortunately, at the age of about five, Bia suddenly fell ill towards the end of January

The Chess Game | Sofonisba Anguissola | 1555One painting that attests to both warm family ties and the importance of bir...
30/05/2022

The Chess Game | Sofonisba Anguissola | 1555
One painting that attests to both warm family ties and the importance of birth and descent is the portrait that Sofonisba Anguissola made in 1555 of three of her sisters, probably Lucia, Europa, and Minerva, and their maidservant, around a chessboard. The game of chess not only emphasizes the intimate mood and harmonious relationship between the sisters, but also their status. Chess was an intellectual pastime befitting an aristocrat, as were the oriental carpet on the table, the sisters’ costly attire, and the maidservant keeping an eye on them all with an amused look on her face.
It is one of the few portraits whose original location is known, for artist & historian Giorgio Vasari saw it in 1566 in the family palazzo in Cremona. Lucia and Minerva were already dead at the time, and Sofonisba herself was working as a lady-in-waiting and painter in Spain. During their lives in that house the group portrait would have been an example of the ideal, harmonious life of an aristocratic family. Afterwards it would undoubtedly have been a cherished memento of absent family members, whether they were far from home or already dead.
For the knowing bystander who read the self-assured signature with the forename and surname of the maker on the chessboard, it was also immediately clear that this was a family with an illustrious history.

Hornsgatan by Night | Eugène Jansson | 1902Eugène Jansson was a landscape artist who painted city views. He is most famo...
29/05/2022

Hornsgatan by Night | Eugène Jansson | 1902
Eugène Jansson was a landscape artist who painted city views. He is most famous for his nocturnal views in deep-blue shades, where the streetlights blend with other elements of the urban scene in a way that makes familiar places seem foreign and new. In Hornsgatan by Night, the gaslights create swirls and waves along the empty Stockholm street. The painting may remind us of other famous starry nights, including the ones painted by Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch (check them out in our Archive). With its atmosphere, this masterpiece seemed perfect for the nearly last day of 2021.  :)

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