Xosé Manuel Alvariño
xosemanuelalvarino.bsky.social
Xosé Manuel Alvariño
@xosemanuelalvarino.bsky.social
"Left:
Michelangelo
"Studies for the Libyan Sibyl"
c. 1510–11
Red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Right:
Michelangelo
"Libyan Sibyl"
c. 1511
Fresco
Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican Museums
January 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
January 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"Saint John the Evangelist Weeping"
1500
Colijn de Coter
Oil on canvas (transferred from wood)
January 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Florence Power of the Past
YouTube video by Rick Buswell
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Leonardo
"Salvator Mundi" Detail
c. 1500
Oil on walnut
Louvre, Abu Dhabi
January 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Circle of Adriaen Brouwer. Portrait of Jan Davidsz. de Heem. 1630s."
January 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Visitation"
1528 - 1529
Pontormo
Oil on wood panel
January 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Intriguing source unknown
January 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
January 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Descendimiento"
1528
By Pontormo
January 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
My favorite clip (so far) of "Vai pensiero".
Nabucco: "Va, pensiero"
YouTube video by Metropolitan Opera
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Leonardo
"Virgin of the Rocks"
1485
Oil on Wood
"Da Vinci succeeds in a groundbreaking achievement in depicting the figures in a pyramidal grouping where they share the same environment."
January 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"David and Goliath"
1624-26
By Tanzio da Varallo, AKA Antonio d'Enrico, or simply il Tanzio
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The Triumph of Death"
c. 1562
Pieter Bruegel
NOTE: "This work reflects the social uprising and terror that followed the plague that devastated medieval Europe; much moral work that shows the triumph of Death over worldly things, symbolized through a great army of skeletons devastating the Earth."
January 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"Saint George and the Dragon"
1470
Paolo Uccello
January 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"The Death of Leonardo da Vinci or Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci"
1818
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Oil painting
Petit Palais, Paris
January 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
ah My first post. What now?
January 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM