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Art and History appreciation

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Plans of the cast-iron gate for the Petit Palais de Beaux-Arts in Paris | Charles-Louis Girault | 1896-1900

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The church of light, Velemér, Hungary

Built in the late 13th century this Romanesque and early Gothic edifice has become world famous thanks to the frescos created by John Aquila around 1377. John Aquila was born in Radkersburg, Austria. Among the frescoes of Velemér church we even find a selfportrait, which was unique in his time.

The church is called the church of light, as the frescoes are arranged so that specific, relevant portions are illuminated by the infalling sunrayes on a special day and date of the year - f.g. the scene of guiding star is illuminated at Christmas, while the Crucifixion at Easter. Actually, this was not something unique at that time, ancient people knew more about astrology as we think.

In Velemér church there are tiny windows placed into the walls, like slots, positioned to take account of changes in the angle of the sun’s rays during the year, and then the frescoes were positioned accordingly.

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Ledikant via Rembrandt Van Rijn

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~Wall fresco painting. Place of origin: From the subterranean hall of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta. Date: 40—20 BCE. Provenance: Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)

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Okay, I know I’m an arthistory blog, but I’m just unable not to post my absolute favourite moments from the Elie Saab 2017 Spring Haute Couture Show!

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Vető-Zuzu: Két szív az egy pár (1981)

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Csók István - Tulipános láda (1910)

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - La viuda romana (Dîs Manibus) [detail]

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Portrait of Emperor Paul I’s Daughters

by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1796, detail.

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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (detail)

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“Portrait of Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France ” (detail) by François Clouet, circa 1510-72.

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Marcantonio Raimondi after Raffaello: Lucretia c. 1511-1512 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Views of 19th century Berlin by Eduard Gaertner (1801 - 1877).

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Drechsler. Detail from Still Life with Butterflies, Glass Bowl, and Grapes, 19th Century.

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Jan Thomas - Margaret Theresa in theater costume

1667

color on copper

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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Hendrik Frans van Lint (1684–1763, Flanders / Italy)

Van Lint was a Flemish Baroque landscape and vedute painter who was part of the group of Flemish and Dutch painters active in Rome. He was one of the leading landscape painters in Rome in the first half of the 18th century and his patrons included Rome’s old aristocratic families as well as European travellers on their Grand Tour.

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Yaaaaaaas!!!!!😍

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Duomo, Napoli, Italia