#history painting

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Robert Fowler (1853-1926) "Women of Phoenicia" (1879) Oil on canvas Located in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

[didoofcarthage]

Lucretia by Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 1664

oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jan Griffier, The Great Fire of London, 1666

Unknown British artist, The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's Cathedral, c. 1670

[wolfinwolfi]

Commission on Twitter for anon

[sarimwonderland75]

Jax Devouring Pomni

Color:

[pagansphinx]

Bernard Meninsky (British/Ukrainian,1891–1950) • Victoria Station, District Railway IWM • 1918 • Imperial War Museums, UK

[permament-witzelsucht]

Vasily Vereshchagin, 1842 - 1904, Russian | The iconostasis of the church of John the Theologian on Ishna near Rostov Yaroslavsky, 1888 | Interior of the Wooden Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Puchug, 1894 | The porch of the church of John the Baptist in Tolchkovo. Yaroslavl, 1888 | Before the Confession at the Entrance to a Village Church, 1888 |

[rinkje]

Title: Passagem de Humaitá

Artist: Victor Meirelles

Year: 1886

Medium: gouache on paper

Image source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/estudo-para-passagem-de-humaitá-victor-meirelles/OQFEZMiH3O4dZg

[monniearc]

"Lonely I came, and I depart alone..." - The Suicide by Edna St. Vincent

"Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?" - Victor (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

Painting: The Death of Seneca by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez, 1871

[mote-historie]

Hans Makart, The Death of Cleopatra, 1875.

Liechtenstein, The Princely Collection

Hans Makart was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era he was considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended with almost cult-like adulation.

Makart was the son of a chamberlain at the Mirabell Palace in Salzburg, Austria, born in the former residence of the prince-archbishops of Salzburg, the city in which Mozart had been born. Initially, he received his training in painting at the Vienna Academy between 1850 and 1851 from Johann Fischbach. While in the Academy, German art was under the rule of a classicism, which was entirely intellectual and academic—clear and precise drawing, sculpturesque modelling, and pictorial erudition were esteemed above all. Makart, who was a poor draughtsman, but who had a passionate and sensual love of color, was impatient to escape the routine of art school drawing. For his fortune, he was found by his instructors to be devoid of all talent and forced to leave the Vienna Academy.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933) "The Cavalier's Kiss" Oil on canvas

[didoofcarthage]

The Triumph of Rome: The Youthful Emperor Constantine Honoring Rome by Peter Paul Rubens, unused design for a series of tapestries about Constantine commissioned by King Louis XIII of France

Flemish, c. 1622-1623

oil on panel

Mauritshuis, The Hague

[solivagants]

Edmund Blair Leighton, The Accolade (1901)

[larobeblanche]

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) • The Star • 1879/81 • Art Institute of Chicago

[fangledeities]

Monica Bellucci

The Suicide of Cleopatra, 1660. Guido Gagnacci (Italian, 1601-1663). Museum of Art History, Vienna.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Hans Makart, "The Hunting Castle", 1869–70