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Hans Memling’s painting “Saint Jerome Penitent”, 1485
Saint Jerome Penitent. 1485. The fifteenth-century Flemish painter Hans Memling
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Potato flowers in the hairstyle of an 1783 portrait by Alexander Roslin
This portrait of 1783 by the eighteenth-century Swedish painter Alexander Roslin is sometimes called a portrait of Marie Antoinette, more rarely of Madame de Lamballe; in catalogues the picture passes as a portrait of an unknown lady, which sounds closer to the truth. But what is interesting is not
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Peggy Guggenheim in Venice
Art · Mores · Nature
There was a time when some fruits were so exotic that artists painted their portraits
There was a time when some fruits were so exotic that artists painted their portraits. So it was with this distinguished pineapple, grown in the garden of Sir Matthew Decker at Richmond, Surrey. Dutch painter Theodorus Netscher, 1720
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Jean-Michel Othoniel’s “Crown of Night” is displayed as a chandelier in the Petit Palais
The exquisite "Crown of the Night" is the work of the contemporary French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel. It is currently on show as a chandelier in the Petit Palais. Incidentally, I have an antique Christmas garland of glass baubles that is not merely in the same style but
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Saint Praxedes Collecting the Blood of Executed Martyrs with a Sponge
The painting is by the seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Felice Ficherelli. It made such an impression on Vermeer that he copied it
Art · London · Museums · Humour
Nicola Turner at the Royal Academy of Arts treats humans as systems of microorganisms
Someone Has Dumped a Pile in the Museum Again. Nicola Turner's Anatomy of Melancholy at the Royal Academy of Arts. The artist reflects on people not as individuals but as mobile systems made up of hordes of microorganisms and bacteria, in constant interaction and exchange with other organisms
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Study for the Portrait of Arthur Atherley, Nineteen-Year-Old Student of Eton College, by Thomas Lawrence
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St Matthew's cat has become so replete with knowledge that she seems to have been living for a hundred trillion billion years on trillions upon trillions of planets just like this one, you understand?
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The Aeroplane
The Aeroplane. Viktor Vasnetsov
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The beloved Alla Borisovna and Yevgeny Boldin, her husband from 1985 to 1993, in a photograph by Sergei Borisov
The beloved Alla Borisovna and Yevgeny Boldin, her husband from 1985 to 1993, in a photograph by Sergei Borisov. The photograph is shown at Borisov's exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum
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