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[thesymbolsofparadise]

Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council" (1825) by John Martin (1789-1854)

[denofimagination-blog]

Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl!

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[artlada1]

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. Trained in Florence as a painter and sculptor in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488), Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions. His curiosity and insatiable hunger for knowledge never left him. He was constantly observing, experimenting, and inventing, and drawing was, for him, a tool for recording his investigation of nature. Although completed works by Leonardo are few, he left a large body of drawings (almost 2,500) that record his ideas, most still gathered into notebooks. He was principally active in Florence (1472–ca. 1482, 1500–1508) and Milan (ca. 1482–99, 1508–13), but spent the last years of his life in Rome (1513–16) and France (1516/17–1519), where he died. His genius as an artist and inventor continues to inspire artists and scientists alike centuries after his death .

[brandyagun]

Pontormo detail of Annunciation between, 1527 and 1528. I’m enchanted by the red surrounded by warm and cool grays. I love his broken color. And the pose is so beseeching and tender. I notice Pontormo’s faces are very similar, especially the eyes. They are so soulful. This is in the Capponi Chapel and is a fresco. #pontormo #masterpainter #masterpainting #mannerism #fresco #annunciation (at Capponi Chapel) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf8JvdJL1tj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ty-vinci]

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[ashmoleanmuseum]

Happy Birthday, Raphael!

Master painter and architect Raphael was born on this day in 1483 in Urbino, Italy. Best known for his Madonnas and his large figure compositions in the Vatican, Raphael's work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition.⁠

⁠The young man peering out at us from this drawing is actually thought to be Raphael himself c. 1500-1501, when he would have been around 18 years old. In this drawing, he used black chalk skilfully and finely to model the head, conveying a sense of form and catching the light on the subject's skin. On close observation, there is evidence of revision in the size of the hat and the length of the neck. Raphael drew and redrew the contour lines of his face and neck, darkening stokes with stronger pressure on the chalk as he gained confidence in the realisation of the image.⁠

[erosforms]

Gerard van Honthorst, Satyr and Nymph, 1623

[mrinalkantimajumder]

CHARLES VERLAT

 On this day of 24th day of November, Charles Verlat or Karel Verlat (24 November 1824 – 23 October 1890) was born in Antwerp, Netherlands. Some sources claim that his date of birth was 25th November.

He was a painter, watercolorist, engraver, art educator, and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier and portrait painter. He also created Orientalist works, genre scenes, including a number of antics, religious compositions, and still lifes.

He was a professor of drawing and director of the Antwerp Academy when Vincent van Gogh spent a brief period as a student at the Academy in 1886. The two men got into arguments about van Gogh's unconventional style of drawing.

Charles got his first drawing classes from Johannes Antonius van der Ven. Then took lessons from Nicaise de Keyser. De Keyser was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting. Pupils of de Keyser who came to prominence were Edouard Hamman, Jan Swerts, Joseph Lies, and Johan Bernard Wittkamp.

His first picture to be exhibited was Pippin the Short Killing a Lion. He also gradually started to paint animal scenes as well as genre scenes. He painted his first religious composition which was intended for the St Gummarus church in Lier.

He left for Paris and studied in the studio of Ary Scheffer. And later from Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.

He gained commissions from religious and official institutions in Belgium including historical composition Godefroid de Bouillon during the assault on Jerusalem. In 1855 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle at Paris with his Tiger Attacking a Herd of Buffaloes.

He gradually came under the influence of the Realism of Gustave Courbet. This resulted in his work Coup de collier. The work was negatively criticised. Verlat took revenge by painting a monkey shaving itself while wiping its feet on the copy of the newspaper in which the criticism had been published.

He also started to establish a reputation as an animal painter. He also painted religious subjects and his Pietà was so successful that it earned him the distinction of being appointed a Knight in the French Legion of Honour

His major creations during his visits to the Middle East were Vox populi, Vox Dei, The Tomb of Christ, and The Flight into Egypt

Verlat also created a few panoramic paintings. The Battle of Waterloo was 120 meters wide and 10 meters high.

Verlat’s students included Joseph Finnemore, Joseph Malachy Kavanagh, and John Duncan.