subalterno saggio

my hadrian

[loumargi]

Jeremy Mann,

[scudiero]

Sir Galahad - George Frederick Watts

[necspenecmetu]

Julius Kronberg, David and Saul, 1885

[scudiero]

Julius Kronberg - Eros and the Goddess of Destiny (detail, 1908)

[insipit]

John Martin (1789–1854, England)

Dramatic landscapes 2

John Martin was an English Romantic painter and one of the most popular artists of his day. He was celebrated for his typically vast and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. His dramatic and subjective style of composition was in stark contrast to the emerging schools of naturalism and realism, which led his work to fall out of critical favour soon after his death, however a revival in interest has occured towards the end of the 20th century, and now his major works are popular pieces of many museum’s collections.

[xaravaggio]

Theodule RibotThe Good Samaritan ( 1870 )

[loumargi]

Alexandre-Louis Leloir (French, 1843–1884)

[scudiero]

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

[scudiero]

Guido Reni - The Archangel Michael Defeating Satan (1635)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

The Last Day of Pompeii (1830-33) - Karl Briullov

[scudiero]

I’ve been meaning to do a series of posts where I ask people to submit their favourite artworks with a description as to why they like them (and linking their urls with the description as to promote them) - would anyone be interested?

[scudiero]

August Weckesser -  Der Königsmörder von Wart (1878)

(Side note: Saw this painting today at Castle Kyburg in Zurich, Switzerland but looking it up there were barely any proper pictures, so my partner and I took some pictures of close-ups (the two additional pictures).  The guide said it tells of a story of a King who got murdered by four young nobles, one of which was caught (man in white being apprehended) with a woman pleading for his life in the face of a knight and the king’s daughter (at his side).  The knight’s page (holding the dogs) is approached by the court jester, who is indicating what the outcome of the apprehended man’s fate will be by pretending to break his stick with his knee (his bones will be broken on the torture wheel)).

[v-ersacrum]

Francesco Cairo, Saint Sebastian tended by Irene, c.1635

[v-ersacrum]

Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of Ganymede, c.1611-1616

[v-ersacrum]

Gijsbrecht Leytens, A Winter landscape with a woodsman and travellers (details), 17th century

[scudiero]

Study of a Youth’s Head - Pietro Annigoni (1910-28)

[windypoplarsroom]

Thomas Benjamin Kennington

“Nest of the dryad”

[sbsebek]

The cemetery of Pisa. Giuseppe Abbati - circa 1864.