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Giovanni Gasparro La Veronica Olio su tela, 70 X 90 cm, 2009

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Émile Vernon.

Alonso Miguel de Tovar.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

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Details: The Feast of the Bean King, Jacob Jordaens - 1640-1645

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To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

We cannot be silent. 

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The Marriage Contract

This is The Marriage Contract by William Hogarth from 1743. It's an early Romantic-era painting that's actually part of a series of paintings. It’s one of the first paintings that incorporates social satire. It shows the rise of the middle class. 

A Wig landowner is showing off his family tree and he has gout disease which is known as the kinds disease. Basically rich people get it from eating rich foods. 

The Wig is trying to build a house but he runs out of money so he goes to one of the new members of the middle class who has a lot of money but no social status. They're trying to marry their children to make an arrangement.

but in the back, the daughter is flirting with the lawyer and the son is staring at himself in the mirror 

Overall Hogarth is hinting at the new structures through society ie. capitalism 

#classical art #Romantic Painting #Romantic Era #painting #William Hogarth #The Marriage Contract #european history #historic painting #art #political satire

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The Oxbow

So this is The Oxbow (1826) by Thomas Cole who was a British painter. Its meant to represent the idea of Arcadia which is the Ancient Greek version of the idea of Utopia (a perfect world). 

Cole sailed up the Hudson River to paint it and its meant to say that America was the Arcadia. 

It holds themes of westward expansion and it has a lot of similarities to American Progress by John Gast (1872) 

The landscape is well cultivated and sunny then shows stormy untamed nature to emphasize its themes of exploring unknown lands

#classical art #Thomas Cole #1826 #Romanticism #mid romantic era #painting #The Oxbow #history #historic art

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Moonrise    -   Józef Chełmoński, 1888.

Polish, 1849–1914

oil on canvas, 55 x 82 cm

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Water Lilies, Pink - Claude Monet

#monet #art history

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Landscape with Saint John on Patmos

So this painting is by Nicolas Poussin from 1640 

Firstly it's an academic painting, meaning Poussin had never actually been to the Roman countryside, he painted it in a studio

John the Evangelist had just been exiled, you can tell that it's him because of the eagle sitting behind him. Throughout art history in Christian paintings, the eagle always symbolizes him 

He wrote Revelations while he was in exile, which is what he is painted doing. Revelation is basically the Christian apocalypse. The four horsemen, weighing of the souls, the dead rising up, Jesus coming back. It’s pretty scary stuff 

#Nicolas Poussin #1640 #art #art history #renaissance painting #Renaissance art #history #european history #academic painting #painting #religious painting #aestethic

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Woman Holding a Balance

This piece is by Jan Vermeer from 1644

On the surface of the painting, it appears that the theme is materialism but it has spiritual undertones 

the woman is weighing her wealth showing her concern for her materialistic possessions 

in the background, there is a painting of the Last Judgment, where the weighing of souls (this goes back as far as the Book of the Dead from Egypt, it's a common religious theme) takes place.

in the painting, the woman is pregnant which is a connection to the Virgin Mary

Vermeer used a lot of Caravaggist characteristics in his painting (lots of black) 

#jan vermeer #rennaisance #Woman Holding a Balance #history #art history #detail #aestethic #caravaggio #caravaggisti #spiritual #painting #historic painting #rennaisance art

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Large Odalisque

So this piece is by Jean-August-Dominique Ingres from 1814 

It’s a Romantic-era painting 

Ingres begins the shift away from the Neo-classical era but there are definitely neoclassical features about this oil painting. The smooth porcelain-like body for example. 

This painting is similar to a Rennaissance painting titled “The Venus of Urbino” by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian). Poth paint prostitutes in similar poses lying across a bed. 

In this painting, the woman is in a Turkish harem, there are Turkish objects surrounding her, the hooka for instance. 

So Napoleon conquered Turkey (1799) and this was kind of saying that the French now have access to Turkish goods, in this case, Turkish women.

I personally really like the detail in the bedding and the curtains in this piece as well as the coloring. The royal blue is really aesthetically pleasing.

#jean-auguste-dominique ingres #romantic #romantic painting #romantic era #large odalisque #french painting #france #art history #history

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Justice of Otto

This piece is by Dirk Bouts, it stands in the Leuven Town Hall in Flanders from 1470

it was commissioned by the Leuven government

this is a famous legend of Emperor Otto III

so the backstory of this piece is pretty much the empress was flirting with a man and she was trying to get him to sleep with her. Well, he said no and the empress did NOT like that one bit. So she went back to her husband and claimed that the man had raped her and the emperor had the man executed. The man’s wife came to the emperor to expose his wife. As seen she’s holding her husband’s head and a burning rod. It was said that while holding a burning rod and was left unburned, the person was telling the truth. So she told the truth and the emperor killed his wife!

it was meant to spread the message that justice was served within the empire

honestly, I don’t KNoW what the hells going on in the background there but it looks like someone got themselves into a bit of trouble

#rennaisance painting #rennaisance art #rennaisance #dirk bouts #art #history #art history #justice of otto #italian art #italy

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The Merdoe Altarpiece

This piece is by Robert Campin from Flanders in 1425

so this is an altarpiece which means back in the day someone could open and close it hens the three parts

the donors of the painting are seen on the left, the scene of the Annunciation from the Bible (where Gabriel appears unto Mary and tells her she’s pregnant with Christ), and then Joseph on the right

This is an oil-based painting which allowed for much more detail and a fun lil shiny finish

there are a LOT of symbols in this piece, this is called iconology. All the symbols refer to the birth of Christ. The crucifix shining through the window, Mary is dressed in red because she has the blood of Christ within her, the garden the donors are standing in also represents the annunciation. Along with a lot more! 

#art history #the merdoe altarpiece #robert campin #rennaisance painting #rennaisance #rennaisance art #history #european history #italy