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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 17h

Claude Monet, Häuser in Argenteuil (1873). Collection: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

#art #painting #impressionism #19thcentury #buildings #flowers

Horizontal row of free-standing houses with red roof tiles. A row of small trees in front between the houses and the viewer and a field of flowers in the foreground. Behind the houses larger trees and a church tower. Cloudy sky.

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Silva Porto, A Wheat Field – Harvest (Outskirts of Paris) (1879). Collection: Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #bluesky #harvest

Two people with scythes harvesting wheat. Two haystacks visible. Foreground the field that has been done; halfway the picture, the field they are working on. In the distance on the left a few trees. Blue sky with clouds.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

This autumnal watercolour was painter by Pre-Raphaelite artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.

🍃 Autumn Fields, Condoven, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872 - 1945), c. 1897–1926. WA1988.237

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 2d

August Lucas, Paysage d'Italie (1852). Collection: Musées Nationaux Récupération, Musée du Louvre, Paris

#art #painting #landscape #19thcentury #mountains #lake #buildings #cattle #bluesky

Landscape in Italy with mountains in the distance; lake in the centre; dotted around the lake various houses; a larger one in the centre of the painting. Foreground left: a woman at a well, tapping water. Close by 5 cows with horns and a shepherd. Between her and the lake pine trees. Foreground right, a rectangular piece of water.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

The First Frost, 1906 by Austrian impressionist painter Olga Wisinger-Florian #womensart
#November

Painting of a treelined rural pathway between waterways in bright autumn sun

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 3d

Varnished lacquer pasteboard and leather cover of One Hundred Sayings (Ṣad Kalima) of Imām `Alī (c.1500-1510). Collection: Chester Beatty, Dublin

#art #lacquer #varnish #leather #bookcover #Iran #16thcentury

Book cover with a border of stylized leaves and flowers, edged on the inner side with double gold square. Within the square the cover is completely filled with branches and flowers in various colours.

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PubHist @pubhist.bsky.social · 4d

Armand Guillaumin
Damiette
c. 1890
54.5 x 65.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: Guillaumin
Sale Christie's, New York, 14 May 2019

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 5d

Josina Margareta Weenix 91684-1724), Still Life with Fruit and a Vista. Collection: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent

#art #painting #stilllife #17thcentury #18thcentury #fruit #nuts

Arrangement of fruit on a stone slab: white and blue grapes, peaches, and melons. Plums and hazelnuts on the table in front of the fruit. Behind the fruit a branch with some leaves in autumn colours.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 7d

Marianne North, Banksia of Tasmania (1881). Collection: Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

#art #painting #landscape #mountain #trees

Landscape with a mountain in the distance behind a wooded area. The sky is turning yellow (early morning?) Centre of the picture a river with grassy slopes. On the left a tree; on the right in the foreground and across the top a few branches of a banksia with several flower spikes.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 8d

Edward Lear, View of Reggio and the Straits of Messina (1852). Collection: National Gallery, London

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #mountain #vulcano #cactus #aloe #wood #palm #city #Italy

View from a wooded hilltop across a fortress above the city towards Sicily and quiet Mount Etna. In the foreground on the right an opuntia (disc cactus). On the left, a flowering aloe. To the right of the aloe a group of people; further down the slope towards the city more people.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 9d

Victor Askew, The Studio, St John’s Wood (1948). Collection: Tate Modern, London

#art #painting #house #building #garden #20thcentury

Back of a house. On the ground floor a room at right angles to the main house. The window of that room catches the sunlight. The main house has a bay window on the first floor and a small window on the floor above that. The ground floor appears to have a double glass door that leads via a few steps to the garden which has a small circular pond and flowers in the border.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt

Photo of a street with a woman and child looking down to a painting on the stone floor of a view to a cityscape

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 10d

John McGhie, Anstruther Harbour (1937). Collection: Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther

#art #painting #20thcentury #harbour #boats #lighthouse #fishing #sea #clouds

Harbour scene with village on the right; lighthouse slightly off-centre across from a pier on which two people with crab traps. Several boats in the water. Blue sky with white clouds.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 11d

Percy Carpenter, Montagu House (1841). Collection: British Museum, London

#art #building #painting #museum #BritishMuseum #19thcentury

More information on the development of Montagu House into the British Museum here: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

information from the museum website: Montagu House, south-east corner and gateway, with a section of the east wing, viewed from Great Russell Street. The sentry box and two sentries can be seen. A number of passers by and a horse and cart in the street. A low railing in front of the wall. Also visible are the houses to the west of the Museum and the crossroads of what is now Bloomsbury Street/Great Russell Street.

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 12d

Thomas Rowlandson, A City Chop House (1810-1815). Collection: London Museum

#art #drawing #watercolour #19thcentury #catering #foodanddrink

Information from the museum website: A waiter is depicted carrying a tankard and a bowl towards the gentlemen diners at their table. The man with his back to the viewer, dressed in a blue coat, eagerly anticipates his meal and has his knife and fork ready. His companion looks less sure about the food coming his way. Wooden partitions between the tables.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13d

'Piccadilly Circus' (1960) by LS Lowry

(Private collection)

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 15d

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

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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 · 17d

“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 · 17d

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 · 18d

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

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Kattekopjes @kattekopjes.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 21d

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

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