washing the dust of daily life off our souls

my sister got an ivy league art history degree and all i got was this blog and a 5 on the 2012 AP Art History exam.

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Kyoko Imazu - Perdicia. 2019. Etching and aquatint.

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Julie Manet with cat, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (detail)

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Laurie Simmons, Kaleidoscope Dollhouse (2001)

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Pallas and the Centaur (detail)

Sandro Botticelli, c.1482

Galleria degli Uffizi

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Hans Memling, Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1475, oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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françois boucher, diana returning from the hunt (details), 1745

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Jenny Holzer - Living (1980-82)

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Cat on flowerbed, 1887, Bruno Liljefors

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Explore Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ in Incredible Detail with an Interactive 10-Billion Pixel Panorama

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homas William Cave (detail)

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Yayoi Kusama   

B. 1929, Japanese

Sunshine, 1988 

Acrylic on canvas 18 x 15 1/8 in. | 45.7 x 38.4 cm.

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Detail of Portrait of Queen Amélie of Orléans, 1905, by Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933)

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An Evening by the Lake (Detail)

Max Nonnenbruch

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William Russell Flint  -  The Two Models,  ca. 1955

Scottish, 1880-1969

Watercolour on paper

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1. Deer in a forest landscape, 1870, by Gustave Doré. 2. Spirit of the Night, by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893).

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now that we’re here and it’s 4am here’s some paintings that make me go absolutely bonkers

In The Kitchen by Helena Janecic, Untitled by Daniel Gerhartz, Compassion by Daniel Gergartz, L’abandon (Les deux amies) by Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holophernes, 1623-25