#Museums

[vincent-van-gogh-paintings]

-Summer Evening, Wheatfield with Setting sun-

#art #art history #culture #curators #history #museums #artwork #van gogh #vincent van gogh #vintage

[alphonse-mucha-paintings]

-Study of Drapery-

#alphonse mucha #art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museums #vintage #painting #museum

[sovietpostcards]

Yesterday I visited the Penates - the house of Russian painter Ilya Repin. It stands surrounded by pine forest, and the Bay of Finland is a 5 minute walk from the house.

The wooden house is very Russian style with little roofs and multiple terraces and enamel fireplaces in every room. There's a large studio on the second floor with large windows and skylights to allow as much natural light in as possible.

Repin was a very prolific painter and a huge name in his day, but also a bit of an eccentric. He always slept in a small unheated terrace, even through the winter. Him and his wife were vegetarian and practiced no-help dinner parties (with no servants at the door or the table). His weekly dinner parties on Wednesdays were attended by a multitude of artists, musicians, scientists. He was friends with Gorky, Mayakovsky, Chukovsky, Tolstoy, Yesenin etc. etc.

(Last picture: Ilya Repin paints opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin in his studio, 1914.)

#russia #wooden houses #museums

[art-nouveau-art-history]

A Sorceress by John Duncan (1866 - 1945)

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museums #painting #vintage #art nouveau

[claude-monet-paintings]

-Morning on the Seine at Giverny-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museums #painting #vintage #claude monet

[john-william-waterhouse-art]

-Boreas-

#art #art history #artwork #history #culture #john william waterhouse #museums #painting #vintage #museum

[john-william-godward-paintings]

-Venus at the Bath-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #john william godward #museum #museums #painting #vintage

[gustave-dore-art]

-The Confusion of Tongues-

#art history #art #artwork #culture #gustave dore #history #museums #vintage #illustration

[caspar-david-friedrich-paintings]

-Eldena-

#art #art history #artwork #caspar david friedrich #history #culture #museum #museums #painting #vintage

[carl-larsson-art]

-Between Christmas and New Aсo-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #carl larsson #history #museum #museums #painting #vintage

[vincent-van-gogh-paintings]

-Trees in the garden of the Hospital Saint-Paul-

#art #art history #culture #curators #history #museums #artwork #van gogh #vincent van gogh #vintage

[ohara-koson-paintings]

-Gallinule Bird and Water Strider-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museums #ohara koson #painting #shin hanga #vintage

[william-blake-art]

-The Angels appearing to the Shepherds-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museum #museums #painting #vintage #william blake

[rococo-art-history]

Dog catching a mallart by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755)

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museums #painting #vintage #rococo #jean baptiste oudry

[gustave-moreau-paintings]

-Pieta-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #gustave moreau #history #museum #museums #painting #vintage

[claude-monet-paintings]

-Red Houses at Bjornegaard in the Snow, Norway-

#art #art history #artwork #culture #history #museums #painting #vintage #claude monet