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  1. Pink Nude or Large Reclining Nude by Henri Matisse, 1935, Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD) #Art #ModernArt #Expressionism Most of Matisse's major works of 1935 and 1936 are nudes. In 1936 Lydia Delektorskaya, who also helped with paper cutouts, was the model for Pink Nude,

  2. The Thunderstorm by Jan van Goyen, 1641, Legion of Honor Museum (San Francisco, CA) #Art #DutchGoldenAge #Baroque Van Goyen would begin a painting using a support primarily of thin oak wood. To this panel, he would scrub on several layers of a thin animal hide glue. With a blade,

  3. Africa by Rosalba Carriera, 1673/1757, Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums (Dresden, Germany) #Art #Rococo Carriera was the first female painter to initiate a new style in the art community. The Rococo style emphasized the use of pastel colors; spontaneous brush

  4. Head of an "Ancestor" Statue , Artist Unidentified, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 9,000 years ago, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel) #Art #Archaeology This nearly life-sized plaster head statue, found in an early village of ancient Jericho, probably represented a mythological ancest

  5. LOL: New light on a classic motif in a art history #catsofpost #cats #arthistory #sculpture #lol #HumorBreak #TheLegendofHercules # Heracles #NemeanlionLO

  6. Spatiotemporal Analysis Is 17,000 Years Old – Or Maybe More?

    Snow and Picquet were not first, as amazing as they were... “Geospatial analysis can be traced back as far as 17,000 years ago [or more], to the Lascaux cave in southwestern France. In this cave, Paleolithic artists painted commonly hunted animals and what many experts recently co

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  8. Eclipses Throughout Art History #art #arthistory #eclipse

  9. Art and Flowers

    Henri Matisse, who, in his 1947 book, “Jazz,” wrote, “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” “I was sad and tired, so I decided to buy myself flowers,” reads the press release for his Oxy Arts show — a seeming allusion to the famous first line of Virginia Woolf’

  10. A True crime Masterpiece?

    An interesting read for art lovers AND true crime sleuths. #art #arthistory #stolenart #heist #artheist #truecrime #TheGardnerMuseum #anniversary #NorthernRenaissance #vermeer #Rembrandt #Manet #emptyframes #gifted #GiftedAccess #giftedarticle #NYTimes #tenmilliondollarreward