L’Amans Dreams He Rises and Dresses, from Roman de la Rose- Unknown artist, tempera on manuscript (15th century France) ( lemmy.world )
Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision. As poetry, The Romance of the Rose is a notable instance of courtly literature, purporting to provide a "mirror of love" in which the whole art of romantic love is disclosed. Its two authors...
The beginning of November. North Greenland - by Rockwell Kent (1933) ( lemmy.world )
The Masque of the Red Death - by Manuel Orazi (1893)(Oil on Canvas) ( lemmy.world )
The Gossips - by Norman Rockwell (1948) ( lemmy.world )
Scarlet macaw (captioned as Macrocercus Aracanga, red and yellow macaw)- Edward Lear, color lithograph (1832) ( lemmy.world )
Lear's illustrations were produced using lithography, in which artists copied their paintings onto a fine-textured limestone slab using a special waxy crayon. The block was then treated with nitric acid and gum arabic to etch away the parts of the stone not protected by the wax. The etched surface was wetted before adding an...
A Famous Motive- Honoré Daumier, oil on canvas (1862-65) ( lemmy.world )
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La...
The Memorial - by Steve R Dodd (2023) ( lemmy.world )
The Invisible Mirror - by Rene Magritte (1942) ( lemmy.world )
The Pit and The Pendulum - by Tina Figarelli, Oil on panel, 2024 ( lemmy.world )
Kunisada - Kabuki Actors in the play _Ise Ondo_ (1850) ( lemmy.world )
Apologies for the slightly skewed picture. I actually own this artwork. A close family friend has been collecting 19th Century Japanese woodcuts his entire life, and he gifted this one of a wedding scene to my wife and I when we got married....
Standing Buddha from Gandhara- unknown artist, carved stone (1st or 2nd century CE) ( lemmy.world )
A very early depiction of the Buddha.