Friday, December 25, 2020

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Jaume Serra painting

Nativity
by Jaume Serra
between 1361 and 1362, oil on panel, 46" x 45.2"



 

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Gaston Bussière painting

Embrace in the Evening Light
by Gaston Bussière (1862 - 1928)
1927, oil on canvas, 31.9" x 25.6"
Bussière was a French Symbolist painter and illustrator.

 

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Literature Pick #119

His Unquiet Ghost
by Mary Noailles Murfree (using the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock)
A tale from the 1912 short story collection The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories.

 

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Pierre-Athanase Chauvin painting

A Convent Near Naples, with a View of Capri
by Pierre-Athanase Chauvin (1774-1832)
1816, oil on canvas, 15" x 19.3"
Chauvin was a French painter, he was born in Paris.
 

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Literature Pick #118

Flight Through Tomorrow

by Stanton A. Coblentz (1896-1982)

An astonishing science fiction short story from Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1947).

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Ludwig von Hagn painting

In the Colonna garden in Rome
by Ludwig von Hagn (1819–1898)
circa 1867, oil on panel, 32.7" x 26.4"
Von Hagn was a German painter, he was born in Munich.

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Benjamin Williams Leader painting

The Wetterhorn from above Rosenlaui
by Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)
from 1889 until 1898, oil on canvas, 36.2" x 29.9"
Leader was a English landscape painter, he was born in Worcester.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Ferdynand Ruszczyc painting

The Soil
by Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936)
1898, oil on canvas, 67.3" x 86.2"
Ruszczyc was a Polish painter, printmaker, and stage designer, he was born in the village of Bahdanava in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus).

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Carl Johann Spielter painting

A Discerning Collector
by Carl Johann Spielter (1851–1922)
1911, oil on canvas, 18.8" x 27.1"
Spielter was a German painter, he was born in Bremen.

Monday, June 8, 2020

Franz Xaver Hoch painting

Italian Coastal Landscape with a Monastery
by Franz Xaver Hoch (1869–1916)
1893, oil on canvas, 59" x 78.7"
Hoch was a German landscape painter and graphic artist, he was born in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Francis Wheatley painting

View on the Medway
by Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801)
1776, oil on canvas, 25" x 30"
Wheatley was an English artist, he was born in London.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Johannes Herman Brandt painting

View from Døndalen on Bornholm
by Johannes Herman Brandt (1850–1926)
1885, oil on canvas, 35" × 39.3"
Brandt was a Danish painter, he was born in Copenhagen.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting

Christ Carrying the Cross
by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
circa 1737-38, oil on canvas, 14.7' x 16.9'
Located at the Sant'Alvise church in Venice, Italy.


Saturday, March 21, 2020

Ferdinand Keller paintings

Coastal Landscape at Rio de Janeiro
by Ferdinand Keller (1842–1922)
1864, oil on canvas, 25" x 34.2"
Keller was a German painter, he was born in Karlsruhe.
Lady Absinth (Arcade, Avenue of Sighs)
1901, oil on canvas, 35" x 45.6"

Rocky Landscape with Centaur
Oil on cardboard, 22.4" x 17.3"