Romanticism era

Détail de « La Fin Du Bal », par Rogelio de Egusquiza (1915). Detail of “The End of the Ball”, by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1915).

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William Kay Blacklock 1872-1924 Engeland

Thomas Cole inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School.

Whilst in Paris last week for the Anatomical Model conference at the Academy of Medicine (which was wonderful, by the way) I made time to visit the Musée D'Orsay's spellbinding exhibition "The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst." I and my companion spend a good three and a half hours marveling at the works--which ranged from romantic painting to Hitchcock film clips to spirit photography to decorative arts--and absorbing the text, which sought to trace a through-line…

Peter Schjeldahl reviews “The Sleeve Should Be Illegal: & Other Reflections on Art at the Frick” and explores his own relationship with the Frick Collection.

Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.

This HD wallpaper is about traditional art, Traditional Artwork, painting, The Last Day of Pompeii, Original wallpaper dimensions is 2560x1791px, file size is 855.77KB

After her relationship with Louis XV became platonic in about 1750, Madame de Pompadour commissioned a series of works of art with friendship and fidelity as their central theme. The Wallace Collection’s portrait, probably the last Boucher painted of his patron, evokes these ideals by its inclusion of the sculpture of Friendship consoling Love (recalling Pigalle) and in the presence of Madame de Pompadour’s pet spaniel, Inès. Oil on canvas 91 × 68 cm / 35.8 × 26.8 in Wallace Collection…