Sunday, May 5, 2024

18C Spring - Love & Bird Nests

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18C English Woodcut of Spring. Another bird's nest is gently placed in the woman's apron.  Bird nests are symbols of home; they re...

Spring in 19c Europe

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 Eleanor Fortescue--Brickdale (English artist) 1872 - 1945
Saturday, May 4, 2024

1871 Allegory of Spring by Nathanael Schmitt (1847-1918)

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19C Allegory of Spring by Nathanael Schmitt (1847-1918) in 1871
Friday, May 3, 2024

20C Spring by Kees van Dongen 1877-1968

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1908 Kees van Dongen (Dutch artist, 1877-1968) Spring
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Spring in 19C Europe

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Alfred Glendening Jr. (British painter) 1861 - 1907
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Maypole & Spring Celebrations

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1669 Scene before a Maypole near stages with Alkmaar Church in the Background by Salomon van Ruysdael (Dutch Landscape Painter, 1600-1670)...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Spring - Love & Bird Nests

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1779 Spring Published by Carington Bowles after John Collet London.  John Collet (b. London; d. London 1780) was a painter of genre everyd...

17C Myths of Spring around a Garden

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1600 From The Four Seasons; Martius, Aprilis, Maius published by Joan Baptista Vrints. A Spring Landscape with a man playing the lute ac...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Allegory of Spring - In a Garden

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1754 Spring from The Four Seasons published by Thomas Major London. People appear to work in the walled sunken garden behind the group. ...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

16C Spring Allegories - Hunting, & Shearing Sheep & Finding a Bird for the Lady

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Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish artist, 1573-1647) Allegory of the Season Spring Celebrating our Earth.  Holding on to the Sweet Divine - “The Lo...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Arbor Day - Some Famous Trees in The United States include

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  Library of Congress The Liberty Tree in Boston, Massachusetts On August 14, 1765, a defiant group of American colonists rallied beneath th...

It's Arbor Day Celebrating Trees - The American Revolution & Liberty Trees

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Meeting at a Liberty Tree Why ‘Liberty Trees’ Became an Obsession After the Revolutionary War At first, colonists used trees as meeting plac...

Today is Arbor Day. Where Did It Originate?

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 What is Arbor Day? Arbor Day is a secular day of observance in which individuals & groups are encouraged to plant trees. Today, many co...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

17C Mythical Goddess Flora by William Faithorne c 1656-1701

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  Goddess Flora  by William Faithorne c 1656-1701. William Faithorne the Younger (1656–c.1701) was an English mezzotint engraver. He was bor...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Goddess Flora by Jan Brueghel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens, 1617

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Flora and Zephyr, by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 The Floralia was a public festival to honor the goodwill of Flora....
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

17C Mythical Goddess Flora Goddess of Flowers by Luca Giordano & Andrea Belvedere

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Luca Giordano & Andrea Belvedere, Flora, Goddess of Flowers, Ca. 1697. This is a collaborative work between 2 Neapolitan artists, Luca G...
Monday, April 22, 2024

19C Mythical Goddess Flora - Symbol of Spring

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Gustave Jean Jacquet (French artist, 1846-1909) Flora Flora in Roman mythology, was goddess of spring-time & flowers, later identified w...