half-sick of shadows

[oldpaintings]

Diana of the Hunt, 1901 by John Liston Byam Shaw (English, 1872 –1919)

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Baptistery of St. Mark, Venice Artist: Antonietta Brandeis (Italian [born Bohemia], 1848-1926) Date: by 1910 Genre: church interior Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: 21.5 cm (8.5 in) high x 12 cm (4.7 in) wide Location: private collection

Antonietta Brandeis trained at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts in a period when women were not yet legally permitted to study the arts in Italy. She specialized in vedute, views of Venice and other Italian cities (notably Rome). In addition to these landscapes, often painted en plein air, she achieved recognition as a painter of religious altarpieces.

Happy International Women's Day!

[yama-bato]

Sommerabend bei Kallsjön - Helmer Osslund

[thunderstruck9]

Helmer Osslund (Swedish, 1866-1938), Haymaking, Bodacke, Indalsälven, c.1898. Oil on canvas, 132 x 80 cm.

[timeless-brushstrokes]

The Yerres, Rain (1875) by Gustave Caillebotte

[peaceinthestorm]

Archimede Bresciani da Gazoldo (1881-1939, Italian) ~ Santa Maria Maddalena, 1924

[japanese-plants]

Lily of the valley by Kawarazaki Shodo (1899-1973)

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: View of Saint-Mammès Artist: Alfred Sisley (French, 1839-1899) Date: ca. 1880 Genre: landscape painting Movement: Impressionism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 45.5 cm (17.9 in) high x 73 cm (28.7 in) wide Location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

[holespoles]

Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) "the orange picker"

[thunderstruck9]

Teodoro Wolf Ferrari (Italian, 1878-1945), San Zeno degli Ezzelini. Oil on panel, 57 x 73 cm.

[random-brushstrokes]

Vladimir Nikolaevich Fedorovich - Calm Waters (1910)

[random-brushstrokes]

Arthur Streeton - The Rialto Bridge, Venice (ca. 1908)

[pintoras]

Leontine von Littrow (Austrian, 1860-1914): Franz-Josef-Promenade, Lungomare, Kvarner Bay, in the Background the Coast and Mountains of Rijeka (via Dorotheum)

[fleurdulys]

The Angel Offering the Fruits of the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve - John Byam Liston Shaw

[hiyutekivigil]

snippets of Bruegel's paintings [x]

the return of the herd, the gloomy day, hunter in the snow, christ carrying the cross

[the-evil-clergyman]

Die Nixe by Angelo von Courten (19th Century)

[renaissance-art]

Donatello c. 1455-1460

Judith and Holofernes (detail)