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[babylon38ad2]

[venompinks]

AESPA ✶ DIRTY WORK — DO DIRTY WORK CLIP

[xnghanxoul]

SUNGHOON UNTOLD Concept Cinema

[metamorphicmuse]

"Sometimes I am lost in thought."

[yridenergyridenergy]

Reconstructed HD double-spread scan. Do not repost anywhere and consider linking to this post instead.

[historypaintings]

Portrait of Emmanuel Rio

Artist: Albert Schindler (Austrian, 1805–1861)

Date: 1836

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Previously known only as “a gardener and horn player,” recent research has identified the figure in this painting as Emmanuel Rio, an enslaved Brazilian man of African descent who was sent to Emperor Francis I in Vienna around 1820. About ten years old when he arrived in Vienna, Rio was enrolled in an elite private school, where he excelled in French, Italian, drawing, and especially music. Francis fostered his talent, gifting Rio a French horn on the occasion of his graduation. Despite his aptitude for music, Rio was assigned to work in the imperial garden.

In this portrait, produced a year after the emperor’s death, Rio holds his favored instrument while looking at an image of Francis, beneath which hangs a gold watch given to him by the monarch. The painting’s sentimentality does little to suggest the precariousness of its subject’s situation in Vienna, which only worsened after Francis died. For the rest of his life, Viennese officials moved Rio to various positions throughout Europe, threatened him with forced military service when he resisted, and, by the late 1840s, discussed sending him back to Brazil or to Africa.

[cowcat44artz]

There's just something about this one particular senior citizen in suit that makes me go.....🫦

Commission for @sareenthedreamer

No one has permission to use this picture, DO NOT repost, trace, claim to be your own, edit/modify or de-face in any way! Reblogs are appreciated

[galleryofart]

The Grey Parrot

Artist: Walter Howell Deverell (English, 1827-1854

Date: c. 1852-1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

[museoparticular]

Alice Neel. Hartley (1966) @ngadc

[babylon38ad2]

[portrait-paintings]

Jeanne Hébuterne

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)

Date: 1918

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, United States

About this painting

With elongated proportions and mask-like faces, Modigliani’s mature portraits share an unsettling family likeness. The pictures he painted of one sitter, however, are distinguished by particular grace and reverence. Modigliani met Jeanne Hébuterne, an aspiring artist, in the summer of 1917; she fell passionately in love and, in November of the following year, bore him the daughter she may already have been carrying when she sat for this picture, assuming the pose of an Italian Renaissance Virgin Annunciate. Born in Italy, Modigliani had moved to Paris in 1906, immersing himself in the bohemian artistic communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse. He frequented Picasso’s studio, dabbled in Cubism, and developed an addiction to drugs and alcohol. By the time he met Hébuterne, he was already gravely ill but had evolved the distinctive style - influenced by Botticelli and the early Italian masters - deployed in this picture.

[royalty-nobility]

Prince Alexander of Battenberg (1886-1960) with Sheikh Muhammed Bukhsh

Artist: Laurits Regner Tuxen (Danish, 1853-1927)

Date: 1887

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Description

Alexander was one of Queen Victoria’s grandsons, the first child of her youngest daughter, Beatrice. He was about 1 year old when this portrait was painted. Sheikh Muhammad Bukhsh was engaged as one of the Queen’s Indian attendants on 17 May 1887 and he left the Queen’s service in 1895. He was described as ‘very dark, with a very smiling expression’.

[atopenair]

[meep-meep-richie]

I love this genre

[telstar-telstar]

comm for @/donkeydullahan of their sona reclining in an abstract space