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Susan
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Old Art Historian. New Student of Cultural Sciences. Photographer. Person. Coffee Addict. Rather normal dog mum. Proud carrier of the woke mindvirus.
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Andreas Achenbach, verschneiter Wald, 1835
Aquarell über Bleistift, mit Deckweiß gehöht
Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
#DüsseldorferMalerschule #AndreasAchenbach #Achenbach #Landschaft #art #arts
Tief verschneiter Wald mit einer Grabstele
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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William Adolphe Bouguereau
Virgin with Angels
1900

Petit Palais, Paris

#AkademischeKunst
#Kitsch
#arts
#finearts
#Bouguereau
Jungfrau Maria mit Kind steht in der Mitte auf einer Wolke, umgeben von weißgekleideten Engeln
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Reading by Lamplight (Twilight: Interior)
George Clausen (1852–1944)
Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries

#art #artHistory #reading #interior
Eine Lesende Frau in einem Sessel. Sie sitzt in einem altmodisch eingerichteten Zimmer. Vor ihr steht ein Tisch, auf dem eine Lampe zur Beleuchtung steht.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)
Candlemas Day, circa 1901, Tate Britain

#womenart #reading #art #artHistory
Eine Frau mit altmodischer Haube ist in ihr Buch (Gebetbuch? Bibel?) vertieft. Um ihre Hand hat sie einen Rosenkranz geschlungen. Hinter ihr ein Fenster mit quadratischen Unterteilungen und eine brennende lange Kerze
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Carl Müller, Saint Charles’ s Church in Vienna at snow flurry (1906)
Winterliche Stadtansicht von Wien, Eine ganze Menge Leute sind auf der Straße, es schneit
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Ich verabscheue diese Bilder so sehr. Nicht, weil Memling ein schlechter Maler war, sondern weil ich weiß, dass der Mann rechts, Tommaso Portinari, 42, die 14-jährige Maria Baroncelli geheiratet hat. Ich weiß, dass es damals üblich war, aber... ja, ich kann mir nicht helfen, ich finde es abstoßend.
Hans Memling, Tommaso di Folco Portinari, um 1470. Ein Mann in schwarzen Kleidern hat die Hände zum Gebet gefaltet und schaut nach rechts ins Leere. Der Hintergrund ist dunkel. Hans Memling, Maria Portinari , um 1470. Eine Frau mit Haube, reichem Schmuck und Gewändern des 15 Jahrhunderts schaut nach links, die Hände zum Gebet gefaltet. Ursprünglich handelte es sich um ein Triptychon mit der Jungfrau Maria und ihrem Kind in der Mitte.
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Put your phones away and grab yourself a good book! It's worth it. Definitely something I will do this evening.

Robert Gordon, The reader, circa 1877, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Woman in a black 19th-century dress, laying on a chaise longue, a feather fan in her left hand, concentrating on the book in her right hand.
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Gysbrecht Leytens, Winter Landscape, 1600 and 1650, Detroit Institute of Arts

We don't have snow like that anymore which is sad. But the climate during the 17th century was not so pleasant either: "The little ice age" caused snowy winters but also famine and epidemics due to the colder climate.
snowy landscape with a casle on the right side of the picture and big old trees on the left. Some tiny people are working in the woods.
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Volker Hermes,
Hidden Largiliere VI
#art #contemporaryArt #VolkerHermes #rokokoArt
A portrait of a woman in baroque clothes. She is holding a flower wreath in her right hand and a flower in her left. She would be staring at the viewer but her head is covered by a mask and overgrown with flowers. It is a modern interpretation of a 17th centuy painting.
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Joris Hoefnagel & Georg BocskayFlower Arrangements, Peacock, Butterflies, and Insect; Getty Museum
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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About 30 years later Joris Hufnagel was commissioned by the Emperor Rudolph II to illuminate Georg Bocskay book on calligraphy. He didn't only add flowers, insects, animals, and plants but also added a section on how to construct letters.

Hofnagel/Bocskay, Damselflys and letters, Getty Museum
Two damselflies at the bottom of the page framing the elaborate calligraphy on top
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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In the 1500s book printing became common. But the art of calligraphy was still highly valued. Croatian-born Georg Bocskay wrote his "Model BoBocskaok of Calligraphy" (1561-62) to show his technical mastery.

Joris Hoefnagel & Georg Bocskay, Mira calligraphiae monumenta, Getty Museum

#calligraphy
Beneath a canopied structure, a wiry-haired animal, perhaps a sloth, munches on a twig. A Latin text based on Jesus's Sermon on the Mount appears above.
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I find the play of colours on the snow - pink and blue and grey and yellow in contrast to the dark blue sky - absolutely mesmerizing. Also, I love wolves.

Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski
Wilki (Wolves)
ca. 1900
National Museum in Poznań
#landscape #wolves #art #arthistory
A pack of wolves in a snowy landscape. The landscape is mostly nondescript. A lone wolf is in the front of the painting. In the background are some trees, a small forest maybe. The sky is dark blue. The white snow shows a mesmerizing play of colours, of pink, light blue, yellow.
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Alfred Poell
Winter landscape
1922
Private Collection
#art #artHistory #landscape #snow #winter
a snowy mountain landscape with trees and some houses.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Left: Thomas Pollock Anshutz
A Rose
1907
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Right: Volker Hermes,
HIDDEN ANSHUTZ
80 x 63 cm
www.hermes.art/prints
#art #arthistory #anshutz #hermes
A young woman in a bright red dress sitting in a dark room. She seems to be lost in thought. On the top of the chest behind her lies a red rose. Hermes interpretation of Anshutz's painting "A rose". A woman is sitting in a chair in a dark surounding. She wears a bright red dress. Her face is hidden behind a red veil. Behind her, on the chest, lies a red rose.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Willem Koekkoek, Winter Streetscene, circa 1880
Private Collection, Australia
#genrepainting ##art #painting #BlueSkyArt
A romantic genre winter scene: A street in the Netherlands with old dutch houses. People are hustling and bustling on the snowy street.
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Paul Cornoyer (1864–1923)
The Plaza after the Rain
1908
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum
A gray, rainy winter day. A city view, a boulevard with trees that opens up to a plaza, people are walking on the streets. The trees have lost their leaves.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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László Mednyánszky
Winter Night
1888
Slovak National Gallery
A snowy forest landscape with a river. A man is standing on a bridge, with his back to the viewer. The moon is illumination the scene with a soft light
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Oh my, my husband sent me this and I can't unsee it either...
Painting by Edvard Munch, "The scream", a person standing on a brindge, hands to their head and mouth open. The painting is a bit altered to make the face more look like a dog's face. Text is saying: "What if Edvard Munch was really trying to paint a dog with long ears, but he wasn't a good painter and people got all excited about this painting, so he just kinda went along with it? ON the bottom it says: "Well, now I can't unsee that...
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Oh boy, I am in love with his paintings. Even if I am more on the atheist side and they are deeply religious - but in a good way.
#GaryBunt #NaiveArt #ArtHistory #OldManAndHisDog
An old man is sitting comfortably on a pasture with flowers. Beside him sits his dog. The man has his arm around the dog and the two friends are enjoying the view.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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British artist Gary Bunt is showing us the little details of life. The little things we can be grateful for: the company of a beloved dog. A cup of tea in the morning. Sunflowers in the garden. Not the major things but the little ones. The ones that we can relate to and are touching us.
And old man on a ladder that stands on a cloud is cleaning a star. In the background we see more clouds, stars, the moon. A little dog is handing him a feather duster.
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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There is a lot of great art out in the world. And there is a lot of simple art out in the world. There are some, few,, not the great masters, who can touch you with their art. Not the big talents but the silent ones, the ones who make art that is ... idk...true you can say.
And old man with his dog (with tiny little Santa boots and a santa hat) on the right side and Jesus on the left side. Both are standing on their own little cloud and shipping snow out of a red bucket into the gap between the clouds
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Das weltbeste Katzenbild. Don't even try to change my mind...

Carl Kahler
My Wife's Lovers
1893
#katzenbild #art #artHistory #Cats
Ein Raum mit dutzenden von verschiedenen Katzen, ein pinkfarbener Vorhang ist quer durch den Raum gespannt.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I love owls and I love owl pictures. This one is an inhabitant of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, painted by Moses Haughton (the Elder) around 1780 or 90. Isn't she adorable?
#OwlMonday #OwlPainting #art #18thCentury
A portrait of a little owl amidst foliage
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I like this picture. But I can't believe that I fell for it: it's
F+++ing AI.
I am very disappointed in myself. And in this picture.
A huge cave wiht flowers, a tiny person in the middle, some undefined mass in the background. A blue sky with fluffy clouds and birds or butterflies fluttering around.
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM