At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the goddess Iris threw a golden apple among the guests, inscribed ‘to the fairest’. Venus, Juno, and Minerva all claimed the prize....
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#rococoartArtist: Abraham Mignon (1640-1679) Title: Still Life with Flowers and a Watch, 1679 Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam @rijksmuseum Music: Florence + The Machine @florence
📍Mauritshuis, The Hague. Artist: Daniël Seghers & Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaer. Title: Garland of Flowers surrounding a Sculpture of the Virgin Mary. Year: 1645. 🎼...
German female painter Clara von Sivers (1854—1924) was a daughter of the architect Hermann Georg Krüger and Catharina Dorothea Christina Lüthge. She studied in...
François Boucher’s (1703—1770) compositions on pastoral themes comprise his most influential contribution to 18th-century French art. These lush and playful fantasies of...
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“Portrait of a Violinist” undoubtedly ranks among the artist’s finest works, fully on a par with some of her best still lifes. Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744—1818) painted...
At the age of 19, Clara von Sivers, née Krüger (1854—1924) exhibited her exquisite paintings of flowers, birds and fruits in Germany. Her style characterised by the...
The series of 17 watercolours "Interiors of the Mansion of Baron A. L. Stieglitz" was executed between 1869-72 by the Italian artist Luigi Premazzi (1814—1891). He moved...
Andrea Soldi (1703—1771) was an Italian portraitist active in Britain. From 1738 to 1744 he won much success in London's art market. Soldi was imprisoned for debt in...
This exquisite still life by Rachel Ruysch (1664—1750), one of the most celebrated female artists of the Dutch Golden Age and the first female Netherlandish artist to...
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the...
Rachel Ruysch (1664—1750) was successful for nearly 70 years as a specialist in flower paintings. Ruysch’s grandfather, Pieter Post, was an important architect, and her...
German female painter Amalie Kärcher (1819—1887) was born in Durlach, the largest district of Karlsruhe. She was famous for her detailed still-life paintings of flowers...
Nicolas Baudesson (1611—1680) specialised in still life painting in general and flower pieces in particular. He belonged to the first generation of French painters to...
Painted at the height of Anne Vallayer-Coster's (1744—1818) artistic powers, this still-life painting belonged to a high-ranking official of the entourage of the Queen...
Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744—1818), along with Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, was one of the three reigning female artists in late 18th...
There is little recorded information about Latvian artist Ernst-Gotthilf Bosse. He was born in Riga on the 27th December 1785 and died in Florence on the 27th December...
In this portrait by the French painter Francois Flameng (1861—1923), the Russian princess Zinaida N. Yusupova (1861—1939) wears a sumptuous dress decorated with the...
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann...
His contemporaries were Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other Impressionists artists, Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846—1909), on a contrary, was a traditionalist, an...
In Albert-Émile Artigue’s “Fleurs de Printemps”, blossoms abound in a lush river landscape dotted with blooming trees in springtime. Having stripped the nearest tree of...
Jean-François de Troy (1645—1730) was a successful historical and portrait painter in Paris in the first half of the 18th century. Here he portrays the climactic moment...
