#artwor

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Once Upon a Time (Snow White)

Artist: Henry Meynell Rheam (English, 1859-1920)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Watercolor with bodycolor

Collection: Private Collection

Description

This intriguing, highly detailed watercolor shows a scene from a classic fairy tale as imagined by English pre-Raphaelite Henry Meynell Rheam.

[cusbet]

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[account-moved-no-longer-active]

"Priestess of Delphi" by John Collier, 1891

[galleryofart]

Gallery of the Old Bedford

Artist: Walter Richard Sickert (German, 1894-1895)

Date: 1894-1895

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

Following the example of Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883) and Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) and their paintings of Parisian cafes and theatres, Sickert painted the more raucous nightlife of London’s music halls throughout his career. He was a regular visitor at the Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town, the subject of this painting. Sickert may have intended it as a sequel to his earlier picture of the child performer Little Dot Hetherington on the stage of the Bedford, in which she is shown pointing to this spot while singing the popular song, “The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery”. As well as recording vividly the atmosphere and setting of a late 19th century performance, this is a brilliant exercise in lighting and composition. Sickert exploits the contrast between the shadowy auditorium and the reflected glare of the stage, and creates tricks of space and perspective by means of the giant mirror on the left.

[paintingsandhistory]

Agrippina and Germanicus

Artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Date: c. 1614

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

The Gallery’s double-profile image of Agrippina (14 BC – 33 AD), the granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, and her husband, Germanicus (b. 15 BC), a prominent and highly lauded commander-in-chief in the Gallic and Germanic provinces of the Roman Empire, is one of the most vivid manifestations of Rubens’s interest in antique sculpture. Executed around 1614, it resembles a cameo in subject and composition, yet, as was Rubens’s great talent, the figures feel full of life. He subtly differentiated Agrippina’s luminous, ivory-colored flesh from the ruddy complexion of her husband, and used rhythmic touches of his brush to create accents of light that give life to her wavy golden hair.

[alipacc]

Arlo Cloverlock I

I don't think I've introduced my very first Daggerheart character, my first foray into TTRPGs with a Firbolg bard who plays the spoons! She's my ghoul (or girl bcs i am still never ever over Monster High)

[cainchs]

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of the Surrender of Ulm, 20th October 1805

Artist: Antoine François Callet (French, 1741–1823)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil painting

Description

Allegorie de la Reddition d'Ulm; General Karl Mack (1752-1828) surrendering to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821); capitulation of Austrian army to French.