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Mythical Symplegma
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Anthropologist, Art Historian, and Author
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Princess Nesmeyana
c. 2025
Evgenia Sharkunova

www.artstation.com/artwork/2BgAXe

#modernart #evgeniaSharkunova
#digitalart
October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Anguish
August Friedrich Schenck
1878

#art #painting #anguish #augustfriedrichschenck #germanartist
March 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Thanksgiving
Norman Rockwell
1943

On display at the Saint Louis Art Museum

#art #painting #normanrockwell #thanksgiving #SLAM #americanartist
March 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Time Unveiling Truth
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
about 1758

On display at the MFA

#art #painting #timeunveilingtruth #GiovanniBattistaTiepolo
March 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli
1781

Currently on display at the Detroit institute of Art

#art #painting #thenightmare #henryfuseli #swissartist #sleepparalysis
February 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Lady Godiva
John Collier
1897

#art #painting #ladygodiva #johncollier
February 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Sisyphus
Giovanni Battista Langetti
1660

Currently housed at the Detroit Institute of Art

#art #painting #sisyphus #GiovanniBattistaLangetti #langetti #italianartist
February 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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La Diseuse de bonne aventure (The Fortune Teller)
Claude Bonnefond
1830

#art #claudebonnefond #bonnefond #painting #frenchartist #thefortuneteller
February 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1647–1652

Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

#art #ecstasyofsaintteresa #bernini #statue #marblestatue #rome #baroqueart
February 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Boar Hunt
Frans Snyders
1625-1630

#art #painting #boarhunt #dogs #franssnyder #flemishpainter
February 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Mankind's Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice
Frans Francken the Younger
1633

#art #painting #fransfrankenII #flemishpainter #choicebetweenvirtueandvice
February 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Mountain Laurel
Charles Ethan Porter
1888

#art #painting #charlesethanporter #stilllife #mountianlaurel #flowers
February 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The Geographer
Follower of Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652)

#art #painting #spanishartist #thegeographer
February 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Circe Offering the Cup To Ulysses
John William Waterhouse
1891

#art #painting #circeofferingthecuptoulysses #johnwilliamwaterhouse #greekmythology #theodyssey
February 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Dancers, Pink and Green
Edgar Degas
1890

On view at the MET

#art #edgardegas #dancerspinkandgreen #painting #MET
February 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Automedon with the Horses of Achilles
Henri Regnault
1868

#art #painting #automedonwiththehorsesofachilles #henriregnault
February 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Roses of Heliogabalus
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1888

Happy Valentine’s Day, celebrate by looking at this (possibly false) depiction of Roman Emperor Elagabalus, drowning his subjects in rose petals.

#art #painting #therosesofheliogabalus #valentinesday #LawrenceAlma-Tadema
February 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The Painter’s Two Daughters
Thomas Gainsborough
1758

Currently on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum

#art #painting #thomasgainsborough #portraits
February 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
John Singer Sargent
1882

Currently at the MFA, this large painting is on exhibit with the Edo-period vases featured in the painting.

#art #painting #johnsingersargent #MFA #japanesevases
February 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Form Versus Fashion
Gourlay Steell
1885

At The National Galleries of Scotland

#art #watercolor #gourlaysteell #formversusfashion
February 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Interior of a Mosque, Cairo
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1897

#art #henryossawatanner #africanamericanartist #painting
February 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Dog Guarding Dead Game
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1753

#art #painting #jeanbaptistoudry #frenchartist
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Le bain turc (The Turkish bath)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1862

Housed at the Louvre, this later work by Ingres shares a similar subject to a few of his earlier works, a woman with her back turned.

#art #lebainturc #ingres #frenchartist #painting #theturkishbath #jeanaugustedominiqueingres
February 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Carnelian ring Stone
Roman
1st to 3rd century CE

This early “rare depiction of an artist at work”, on display at the MET, illustrates an artist painting the head of a statue.

#art #romanart #carnelian #ringstone #MET
February 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Foliate Dish with Bovine (Xiniu) Gazing at a Crescent Moon
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), late 13th century
China

Currently on display at the Art Institute Chicago

#art #yuandynasty #chineseart #folitedish #13thcenturyart
February 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM