Friday, May 1, 2015
Interiors by Danish Artist Peter Vilhelm Ilsted 1861-1933
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Girls at Window
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Two Girls Playing
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Boy Studying
Peter Ilsted (1861-1933) & the work of the painters Danish artists Carl Holsøe (1863-1935) & Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916 who was Ilsted's brother-in-law), formed the core of the Copenhagen Interior School. They portrayed scenes of everyday life inside houses. Ilsted, Hammershøi,& Holsoe's quiet rooms, delicate lighting -- mostly by sunshine -- usually focus on a single person. They use a limited palette with dull tones emphasising how the sunlight reflects on each surface giving them different textures. Some find the depictions calming & powerfully beautiful, others see the women inhabiting these spaces as lonely & waiting. All 3 artists were members of The Free Exhibition, a progressive art society created around 1890, famous for painting images of "Sunshine & Silent Rooms," all in subtle colors. Their works reflect the orderliness of a tranquil life, similar to the earlier works of Vermeer. These interiors evoke at once a sense of calm, as well as a sense of mystery. Ilstedes achievements in mezzotints were revolutionary. Some of his mezzotints, most of which were created in black as well as color, are considered among the finest ever made.
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Interior 1896
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Interior with Girl Reading
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Looking Out the Window
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933)
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Mother and Child 1892
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933)
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933)
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) The Open Door
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Two of the Artist's Daughters at Liselund
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Woman Reading by Candlelight
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Woman Reading by Sunlight
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Young Girl Serving Tea
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933)
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) Girl Sitting on the Steps
Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (Danish artist, 1861-1933) In the Bedroom
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Women reading indoors by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919
1897 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Young Girl Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Reading an Illustrated Journal 1880
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) The Reader 1875-1876
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Girl Reading 1886
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Woman Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Girl Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Girl in Blue Reading 1890
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Woman Reading 1877
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Graziella 1910
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Young Girl Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) 1909
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs 1889
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)
Thursday, March 26, 2015
18C Reading Indoors or How to flirt with a book
At first, of course, there is the innocent, virtuous young girl...
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) The Virtuous Girl
Italian painter Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762), was a highly successful, itinerant artist who traveled painting portraits of wealthy patrons across Europe. As a young man he studied under Antonio Balestra in Rome & Francesco Trevisani in Naples. Thereafter he returned to Verona where he set up a studio for a while, before he began to travel. His work attracted royal & aristocratic patrons in Dresden, Vienna, Munich, & Saint Petersburg. In order to earn a living between commissioned portraits, he created many genre portraits, often images of pretty young girls casting coquettish glances. He died in St Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Woman with a Book 1762
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Girl with a Book
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Lady with a Book
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Self Portrait
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Precious gentlemen...
Lovis Corinth (German artist, 1858-1925) The Freemasons
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I seldom include paintings with completely male subjects; but this one is just too precious to pass by. Oh my...
Saturday, March 14, 2015
The Female Saints of Francisco de Zurbarán 1598–1664
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Apolonia
Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), born at Fuente de Cantos & active mainly in Seville, devoted himself almost entirely to religious works. He worked for churches & monasteries over a wide area of southern Spain and his paintings were also exported to South America. His simple compositions & emotionally direct altarpieces, combining austere naturalism with mystical intensity, made him an ideal Counter-Reformation painter.
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda of Burgos
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda. c 1630-1645
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorotea
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorothea
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eufemia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Isabel
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Margaret. c 1630-1635
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Marina
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eulalia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Rufina. Early 1630s
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1625
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1633
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Agatha
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Lucy
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Mathilda
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Barbe
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ines
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia
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