Thursday, January 30, 2014

Lluís Rigalt painting

Landscape with Ruins
by Lluís Rigalt i Farriols (1814 - 1894)
1848, Oil on Canvas, 38.58" x 46.85"
Spanish painter and draftsman from Barcelona

Monday, January 27, 2014

Literature Pick #72

Advanced Chemistry
by Jack G. Huekels
A science fiction short story from the August 1923 issue of the Hugo Gernsback edited magazine Science and Invention, it was republished in Amazing Stories in 1927 and 1956.
 

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Matthias Rudolf Toma painting

Hammer Mill in Gutenstein (according to tradition)
by Matthias Rudolf Toma (1792-1869)
1832, oil on panel, 14.8" x 18.5"
Austrian painter and lithographer from Vienna

Friday, January 17, 2014

Richard Wilson painting

Tivoli: Temple of the Sibyl and the Campagna
by Richard Wilson (1714-1782)
1752
Welsh landscape painter from the village of Penegoes

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Jan van der Heyden painting

View of the Herengracht, Amsterdam
by Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712)
Circa 1670, Oil on Canvas
Baroque era painter from Gorinchem, Holland