Video: Iconic work by Jean-François Millet! ✨

L’Angelus (1857–1859) depicts two peasants pausing in the field to pray. Originally Prayer for the Potato Crop, Millet added the church steeple to highlight devotion, inspired by his grandmother’s daily prayers.

#Millet #LAngelus #Shelsey

Iconic work by Jean-François Millet! ✨

L’Angelus (1857–1859) depicts two peasants pausing in the field to pray. Originally Prayer for the Potato Crop, Millet added the church steeple to highlight devotion, inspired by his grandmother’s daily prayers.

#Millet #LAngelus #ArtHistory #FrenchArt

Beauty of London in Fog

Monet first visited London in 1870, fleeing the Franco-Prussian war. Later, he returned to capture “fog effects on the Thames” from his Savoy Hotel balcony, by 41 paintings of Waterloo and CC Bridges.

"If not for the fog, London wouldn't be a beautiful city"
#Monet #shelsey

✨ Discover the beauty of Josefa de Óbidos' Nativity Painted in 1669, depicts St. Francis & St. Clare adoring the holy child, with Clare holding a monstrance and illuminated by divine light.

This connects to the first Nativity created by St. Francis in Greccio in 1223. 🎄💖

#JosefadeÓbidos #Nativity

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American Romantic Landscape artist ,Asher Brown Durand, drew inspiration for his 1850 masterpiece, 'Scene from Thanatopsis,' (Greek for "meditation on death") from William Cullen Bryant's poem, #Thanatopsis, where nature and mortality intertwine.
#AsherBrownDurand #NYMetMuseum #bskyart #Shelsey

Mary Austin, Freddie Mercury's partner, auctions nearly everything, including the iconic Garden Lodge Door, adorned with fan graffiti, symbolizing his legacy and battle with AIDS. Estimated at £15-25k, it soared to £412,750 in Sotheby's white glove auction.#FreddieMercury #Sothebys #Shelsey #bskyart

WWII created novel forms of art expression. #Jackson_Pollock asserted, 'Modern painters can't depict their age of airplane & atom bomb using old techniques of Renaissance' Pollock's 'drip painting' placing canvases on the floor, he'd 'literally be in the painting.' #convergence1952 #bskyart #Shelsey