#1868 paintings

[liriostigre]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (German, 1750-1812) Amalie von Levetzow (1788-1868), 1803 The 15-year-old Amalie of Levetzow appears delicate, graceful and almost floating. The life-size portrait was created on the occasion of her wedding, whereupon the pigeon with the myrtle branch. Tischbein was a sought-after portraitist. He had trained with his uncle in Kassel as well as in Paris and Rome and gave his figures with great painting fineness and liveliness. Amalie became the mother of Ulrike von Levetzow, who fell in love with Marienbad, 72-year-old Goethe 17 years later.

[pre-raphaelisme]

A Saint of the Eastern Church (formerly called A Greek Acolyte) by Simeon Solomon, 1867-1868

[venustapolis]

Dawn (Adolphe Alexandre, 1868)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[vizuart]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔈𝔵𝔢𝔠𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔈𝔪𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔐𝔢𝔵𝔦𝔠𝔬, 𝔟𝔶 É𝔡𝔬𝔲𝔞𝔯𝔡 𝔐𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔱 𝔬𝔦𝔩 𝔬𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔳𝔞𝔰, շՏշ × ՅօՏ 𝔠𝔪.

[arinewman7]

Child Drinking Milk

Mary Cassatt

pastel on paper, ca. 1868

[bishopsbox]

source: bishopsbox

Hugues Merle (French, 1823-1881-mary)

Magdalene in the cave (1868)

[lickmylegsiamonfire]

Détail de « Ange Déchu » (Fallen Angel)

Alexandre Cabanel, 1868

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting

Frédéric Bazille PORTRAIT OF PAUL VERLAINE (1868)

[jpf-sydney]

Japanese art in perspective

New item:

"How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, TAKASHINA Shūji, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty.”-- Back cover.

Shelf: 721.02 TAK ENG Japanese art in perspective : east-west encounters. by Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud. 1st English edition. Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2021. ISBN: 9784866581804 (hardcover)

viii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan).

This book is a translation of Zoho Nihon bijutsu o miru me : higashi to nishi no deai, which was published by Iwanami Shoten ...-- T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.

Part I: Methods of Japanese art. 

The character of Japanese aesthetics

Object and form.

Forms of seeing, east and west

The "trailing bough" motif

The art of the journey

The principle of ornamentation

Part II: East-West Encounters.

East and west in Meiji painting

The avant-garde in Japanese art

Japanese Academism

Some problems of Japonisme 

Part III: Passing beauty, returning memory.

The aesthetics of transition : the four seasons and the Japanese sense of beauty

The color of the flowers : symphonies of image and word

The heritage of memory : intangible culture as Japanese tradition.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Louis Matout (French, 1811-1888) Assembly of the Gods Fresco, 1868 Louvre Museum, Paris

[pre-raphaelisme]

The Traveller by Ford Madox Brown, 1868

[venustapolis]

Distraction (William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1868)

[archivediver]

Train Depot