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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 3h

'Piccadilly Circus' (1960) by LS Lowry

(Private collection)

Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 1d

Giovanni Paolo Panini, The departure of the Duc de Choiseul on St Peter’s Square in Rome, (1754-1757). Collection: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

#art #painting #18thcentury #church #ambassador #carriages #bluesky #clouds #Italy #cityscape

Seen from a slightly elevated point, a view across St. Peter's Square towards the church with colonnades on both sides. In the foreground and across the square spectators who are watching the lengthy procession of the carriages of the French ambassador leaving St. Peter's, snaking across the square towards the righthand lower corner of the painting. More information: https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/866232

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2d

Flowers & beetles in 1582, by Hans Hoffmann. It’s his day today.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 2d

William Sadler the Younger (1782-1839), A View of the Custom House. Collection: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

#art #painting #19thcentury #building #townscape #ships

On the left: custom house with its Palladian/Neo-classical façade and dome. Foreground and right: the river Liffey with lots of sailing ships and rowing boats

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 4d

“Reader”

#art #booksky

Illustration of a young girl in a straw hat reading a big book. In the background is a black silhouette of a horse rider in a cape galloping towards a silhouetted tree.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 4d

Maria Sibylla Merian, Watercolour with flowers and insects (1691?) Collection: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

#art #watercolour #17thcentury #flowers #insects

Catchfly with admiral, rose with fox moth, iris, hoverfly, jewel beetle and orchid

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 4d

The Bugs & Beasties Banquet - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 411

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 5d

Caspar David Friedrich, Friedhof im Schnee / Churchyard in the snow (1826/27). Collection: Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Stiftung im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig

#art #painting #landscape #winter #snow #19thcentury #churchyard

View from within a churchyard towards a stone wall and gate. Snow on the ground. In the foreground a fresh grave has been dug; two spades still standing in the hole. A number of lopsided crosses between the fresh grave and the wall.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 6d

Herman Breckerveld, Brand in de Eusebiuskerk of Grote Kerk te Arnhem op 25 juni 1633 (1634). Collectie: Museum Arnhem

#art #painting #cityscape #17thcentury #buildings #church #fire #people

In the centre, the old church in Arnhem on fire. Centre foreground the market square full of people rushing to help with extinguishing the fire, carrying ladders, buckets, and sticks. On the right and left other buildings. More information (in Dutch) on the museum website https://www.museumarnhem.nl/nl/collectie/GM+02822

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John Roche @jr-placitas.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t know where this Banned Books staircase is, but it’s super cool!

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 8d

Patrick Nasmyth, Landscape (c.1807). Collection: Tate Britain, London

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #pond #farm

Fairly large cottage/farmhouse surrounded by trees, a pond, and pasture. Some ducks in the pond. A man climbing the fence to the field in which cows are grazing. One person looking out of an upstairs window and three figures seated under a lean-to makeshift arbour.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Painted design with a mass of green leaves and twisting vines as well as pink and white blossoms, all on a white background

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 9d

Engraved by Francis Jukes after George Barret (the younger), View in the Canton of Glarus Swisserland [sic] (1805). Published by F. Jukes, London, and Novelletto & Co, Hamburg. Collection: British Museum, London

#art #print #engraving #mountains #trees #19thcentury #Switserland

Mountainous landscape with forest, a figure with horse ascending a path at left, a large pine tree on the right.
© The Trustees of the British Museum

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 16d

Childe Hassam, Mount Hood (1908). Collection: Portland Art Museum

#art #painting #20thcentury #mountain #snow #impressionism

View from the southwest hills across the city of Portland to snow-capped Mount Hood

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16d

"Bliss' etching by contemporary printmaker Faith Chevannes #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print feating a curled up brown, blsck and white patchy cat lying down viewed from above

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 17d

Georges Seurat, Bout de la jetée à Honfleur / Harbour Entrance at Honfleur (1886). Collectie: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

#art #painting #19thcentury #harbour #sea #pointillism #postimpressionism #lighthouse #France

Foreground, about one third of the painting: vegetation. On the left above the vegetation a small channel with, on the seaward side a wooden construction with a lighthouse behind it. On the right, the open sea with several small sailing boats. The horizon at about halfway the painting.

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PubHist @pubhist.bsky.social · 18d

Childe Hassam
Horticulture building, World's Columbian Exposition
1893
47 x 66.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Terry Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
Daniel J. Terry Collection

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 18d

J. Veerman, vischhandel W. Zwemmer, Zandvoort (1920). Collectie: Zandvoorts Museum

#art #painting #shop #village #20thcentury #fishshop #Netherlands

On the left wooden front of fish shop in fishing village Zandvoort. On the right other buildings with a washing line in front. On the far right a part of a wagon with the word 'Zand' still visible.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19d

Book cover art, c.1910 by Margaret Neilson Armstrong, US designer, illustrator, author known for her Art Nouveau style #WomensArt

Book cover in cream with symmetrical design of stylised plants with orange flowers and green leaves as well as ornate text

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 19d

George Hitchcock, Flower Girl in Holland (1887). Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #flowers #girl #shoulderyoke #Netherlands

Girl in a blue dress selling flowers held in two baskets or buckets hanging from a shoulder yoke. She is standing in front of a house on a footpath beside a road lined with willows that, on the left, leads to another farmhouse. In the distance at the far end of the field on the right a windmill and more buildings.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 20d

Jacob Maris, A Drawbridge in a Dutch Town, (c. 1875). Collection: National Gallery, London

#art #painting #19thcentury #bridge

Wooden draw bridge on a stone foundation with horse and cart going over and a woman behind them. On the right some houses. Grey sky with clouds.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 21d

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël, Watermolen in de polder 'De Leidsche Dam' (1884). Collectie: Dordrechts Museum

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #windmill

Centre foreground water leading to a stone bridge and windmill. On the left a single animal (cow or goat) on the sloping embankment. Horizon with a row of trees. Cloudy sky.

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PubHist @pubhist.bsky.social · 21d

Paul Signac
The Swell, Portieux, Opus 190
1888
61 x 92 cm
Oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 22d

Hubert Robert, The Mouth of a Cave, 1745. Collection: The Met, New York

#art #painting #18thcentury #landscape #fishingboats #people #sea

Three figures, two women and one man, the latter with a fishing rod, are standing at the mouth of a cave. Another man can be seen in the foreground with a basket on his shoulder, walking in the water that has come into the cave. The sea is coming in over a small ridge, causing a small waterfall. Out at sea, a few fishing boats can be seen.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 23d

Albert Cuyp, De ruine van de abdij van Rijnsburg (c. 1645). Collectie: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

#art #painting #landscape #ruins #clouds #people #bridge #17thcentury

On the right, at the top of a small hill, the abbey ruins. On the left, a bridge crosses a stream of water. In the distance behind the bridge, other ruins appear, veiled in mist. In the foreground on the right, below the ruin of the abbey a group of figures including a horseman. The sky with clouds occupy the uppermost two thirds of the painting.

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