Andrew Lewis
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Enjoy Art History, Nature. Blue Dot in Red State.
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Portrait d'Édouard de Bavière (1625-1663), prince palatin - Honthorst, Gerrit van#painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Portrait d'Édouard de Bavière (1625-1663), prince palatin - Honthorst, Gerrit van#painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart
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#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#StaircaseSaturday
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
Breathtakingly lovely.
The Palladian 'Tulip Staircase' in Inigo Jones' Queen's House in Greenwich - the first unsupported spiral stair in Britain.
Commissioned c.1616 by Anne of Denmark, Queen to James I.
Completed c.1635 for Henrietta Maria, Queen to Charles I.
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Something from the home screen folder. The photo is taken at dusk through smokey air, there's no post production work. IE no alterations. This right out of the camera except for the crop.
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Something from the home screen folder. The photo is taken at dusk through smokey air, there's no post production work. IE no alterations. This right out of the camera except for the crop.
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Incredible day today at the Kimbel’s Art Museum. The Myth & Marble exhibition on display until January is world class
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Incredible day today at the Kimbel’s Art Museum. The Myth & Marble exhibition on display until January is world class
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This dish commemorates the marriage of John Garway and Mary Holgrave at St Gregory by St Paul's on 21 May 1663. Made in the Pickleherring pottery #Southwark (British Museum)
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This dish commemorates the marriage of John Garway and Mary Holgrave at St Gregory by St Paul's on 21 May 1663. Made in the Pickleherring pottery #Southwark (British Museum)
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Sophia of Hanover in a stunning portrait by Gerrit van Honthorst. He was born on this day in 1592.
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sophia of Hanover in a stunning portrait by Gerrit van Honthorst. He was born on this day in 1592.
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Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
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Barry Windsor-Smith, “The Maker of Days” (1982), ink over graphite with watercolour on Bristol paper, 40.6 x 50 cm.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Barry Windsor-Smith, “The Maker of Days” (1982), ink over graphite with watercolour on Bristol paper, 40.6 x 50 cm.
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Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
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Still Life with Birds and Fruit, c. 1650
By Giovanna Garzoni, 1600-1670.
(Cleveland Museum of Art)
Self-Portrait
(Harvard)
Her career spanned several decades including high profile clients such as the Medici.
By Giovanna Garzoni, 1600-1670.
(Cleveland Museum of Art)
Self-Portrait
(Harvard)
Her career spanned several decades including high profile clients such as the Medici.
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Still Life with Birds and Fruit, c. 1650
By Giovanna Garzoni, 1600-1670.
(Cleveland Museum of Art)
Self-Portrait
(Harvard)
Her career spanned several decades including high profile clients such as the Medici.
By Giovanna Garzoni, 1600-1670.
(Cleveland Museum of Art)
Self-Portrait
(Harvard)
Her career spanned several decades including high profile clients such as the Medici.
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Thistle with five butterflies and other insects, n.d., by #margarethabarbaradietzsch (German, 1706-1783), who died #otd, Oct 16. Held at the British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thistle with five butterflies and other insects, n.d., by #margarethabarbaradietzsch (German, 1706-1783), who died #otd, Oct 16. Held at the British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
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Today's favourite piece of Tuscany art. The inlaid marble pavement of Duomo di Siena.
Sacrilege, perhaps, but this glorious floor put me in mind of Aubrey Beardsley's work.
Also, I don't think I've seen a finer interior to a cathedral than the one in Siena.
Sacrilege, perhaps, but this glorious floor put me in mind of Aubrey Beardsley's work.
Also, I don't think I've seen a finer interior to a cathedral than the one in Siena.
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's favourite piece of Tuscany art. The inlaid marble pavement of Duomo di Siena.
Sacrilege, perhaps, but this glorious floor put me in mind of Aubrey Beardsley's work.
Also, I don't think I've seen a finer interior to a cathedral than the one in Siena.
Sacrilege, perhaps, but this glorious floor put me in mind of Aubrey Beardsley's work.
Also, I don't think I've seen a finer interior to a cathedral than the one in Siena.
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If you want to view these - and other - portrait miniatures, I’ve collected them into an album on my Flickr account. I’ll be adding more over the next week or so, not all by Hilliard. 4/
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvB1C
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Portrait miniatures
Portrait miniatures, mostly Elizabethan, and mostly by Nicholas Hilliard.
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September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you want to view these - and other - portrait miniatures, I’ve collected them into an album on my Flickr account. I’ll be adding more over the next week or so, not all by Hilliard. 4/
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvB1C
flic.kr/s/aHBqjCvB1C
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Rabbit and Coat of Arms, Hans Hoffmann, 1587. #InternationalRabbitDay
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Rabbit and Coat of Arms, Hans Hoffmann, 1587. #InternationalRabbitDay
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Aert Schouman, Dutch (1710-1792), Red-billed Toucan, 1748, watercolor, over a very light sketch in pencil, border line in brown ink, brush in watercolor in colors, 48.2 x 31.9 cm, on loan from the City of Amsterdam to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Aert Schouman, Dutch (1710-1792), Red-billed Toucan, 1748, watercolor, over a very light sketch in pencil, border line in brown ink, brush in watercolor in colors, 48.2 x 31.9 cm, on loan from the City of Amsterdam to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The medieval mind imagined dragons lurking anywhere unfamiliar - even the Alps - and in a 16th century work on Africa, the beautiful engravings show the locals hunting elephants, crocodiles etc and also Romans having a crack at a dragon (I guess in North Africa)
#BookologyThursday #dragon #medieval
#BookologyThursday #dragon #medieval
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The medieval mind imagined dragons lurking anywhere unfamiliar - even the Alps - and in a 16th century work on Africa, the beautiful engravings show the locals hunting elephants, crocodiles etc and also Romans having a crack at a dragon (I guess in North Africa)
#BookologyThursday #dragon #medieval
#BookologyThursday #dragon #medieval
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The Lady & the Unicorn: À Mon Seul Désir, exceptional mille-fleurs tapestry, part of series of six, with 5 senses, wool & silk woven in Flanders after Paris cartoons c.1500; rediscovered 1841 at Le Château de Boussac by Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, died #OTD 1870.
Musée de Cluny
Musée de Cluny
September 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The Lady & the Unicorn: À Mon Seul Désir, exceptional mille-fleurs tapestry, part of series of six, with 5 senses, wool & silk woven in Flanders after Paris cartoons c.1500; rediscovered 1841 at Le Château de Boussac by Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, died #OTD 1870.
Musée de Cluny
Musée de Cluny
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Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth, after 1679. Attributed to Dorothea Maria Gsell as part of the workshop of her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian. (Rijksmuseum)
September 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth, after 1679. Attributed to Dorothea Maria Gsell as part of the workshop of her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian. (Rijksmuseum)
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Jacopo Bassano, Italian (c. 1510-1592), Two Hunting Dogs Tied to a Tree Stump, 1548-49, oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm, Louvre, Paris, France
September 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Jacopo Bassano, Italian (c. 1510-1592), Two Hunting Dogs Tied to a Tree Stump, 1548-49, oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm, Louvre, Paris, France
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Life cycle of a moth,
Maria Sibylla Merian, c. 1670-1679
(British Museum)
Maria Sibylla Merian, c. 1670-1679
(British Museum)
September 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Life cycle of a moth,
Maria Sibylla Merian, c. 1670-1679
(British Museum)
Maria Sibylla Merian, c. 1670-1679
(British Museum)
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Edmund Berninger’s The Bay of Naples, with a hazy Vesuvius looming beyond, its smoky plume dwarfing the chimney smoke at far L (late 19C)
September 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Edmund Berninger’s The Bay of Naples, with a hazy Vesuvius looming beyond, its smoky plume dwarfing the chimney smoke at far L (late 19C)
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Hare, Chambéry, BM, MS 4, C15th.
September 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Hare, Chambéry, BM, MS 4, C15th.
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Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!), exhibited in 1891, by Henri (Le Douanier) Rousseau, French post-impressionist artist, died #OTD 1910; his naive, primitive works were admired by Picasso, Matisse & Vallotton, and influenced Fauvism & Surrealism.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
September 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!), exhibited in 1891, by Henri (Le Douanier) Rousseau, French post-impressionist artist, died #OTD 1910; his naive, primitive works were admired by Picasso, Matisse & Vallotton, and influenced Fauvism & Surrealism.
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
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Gustave Doré, The Council Held by the Rats, ca. 1868.
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Gustave Doré, The Council Held by the Rats, ca. 1868.
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Entering the embroidery-&-shoe-rose competition (which is hotly contested): Edward Sackville, later 4th Earl of Dorset. As immortalized by William Larkin. It's his day.
August 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Entering the embroidery-&-shoe-rose competition (which is hotly contested): Edward Sackville, later 4th Earl of Dorset. As immortalized by William Larkin. It's his day.