The Witterings of the Sunburnt Mind

[arthuntblog]

Joel Elias Shapiro (1941-2025) [USA] — ‘Untitled‘, 1992. Etching and aquatint in colors on wove paper (74.3 x 54.6 cm).

[huariqueje]

Close Distance - Arjan van Helmond, 2025.

Dutch, b. 1971 -

Gouache and acrylic on canvas

[huariqueje]

Flaming Sky - Anke Roder , 2026

Dutch, b. 1964 -

Encaustic and oil on wood, 67 x 71.5 cm.

[portalibis]

Sol, Lead votive plaque, Roman, probably 3rd century CE

[the-art-archive]

On the Balcony (1888) by Childe Hassam

[beammeupplease]

Self portrait at 34

[portalibis]

The Baleful Head, c. 1885 by Edward Burne-Jones

[artistprovocateur]

Sybil Craig, Australian (1901–1989)

Peggy, ca 1932

[valentineua]

The Ages of Life: Youth (1842) - Thomas Cole (1801–1848)

[beammeupplease]

In Search of Pleasure

René Magritte

[art-history-never-over]

Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is the self-proclaimed pioneer of abstract art, though this is still up for debate among art historians. The painting above is regarded as one of the earliest pieces of abstract art, drafted in 1910 and believed to have been edited in 1913.

[gustave-moreau-paintings]

-Perseus and Andromeda-

[artssie]

Les âmes au bord du Styx / Souls By the Styx (b.1871-1954) by Edgar Maxence

[royalty-nobility]

Maria Eufrosyne (1625–1687), Princess Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622–1686), Count, Councillor of the Realm, Marshal of the Realm, Lord High Chancellor and Lord High Steward

Artist: Hendrik Munnichhoven (Dutch, 1622–1664)

Date: 1653

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Museum / Gripsholm Castle, Stockholm, Sweden

Description

Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie has to take a step down, as he is outranked by his wife, Princess Maria Eufrosyne, the sister of the future Charles X Gustav. The difference between them is also underlined by the fact that the whole of her gown is of gold cloth, while her husband’s costume is black with gold trim. The plants allude to fertility and the little dog to fidelity. The artist Münnichhofen came from the Netherlands and entered De la Gardie’s service.

[john-henry-twachtman]

Greenwich Garden, 1899, John Henry Twachtman

Medium: oil,canvas

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded silver reliquary casket, England, early 14th century

from The British Museum

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded silver medallion with bust of Christ, Byzantine, first half of the 11th century

from Dumbarton Oaks