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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Ambrogio Lorenzetti painting

Rofeno Abbey Poliptych. Saint Michael the Archangel slaying the Dragon between Saints Bartholomew and Benedict; Madonna with Child, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Ludwig of Tolouse (in the cusps)
by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (c. 1290 – June 9, 1348)
1330 - 1335, Tempera on Panel, 10.16" x 9.06"
Italian painter of the Sienese School

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Literature Pick #93

The Ideal
by Stanley G. Weinbaum
A wonderful science fiction short story from the September 1935 issue of Wonder Stories.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Daniël Vosmaer painting

A View of Delft through an Imaginary Loggia
by Daniël Vosmaer
1663, Oil on Canvas, 35.8" x 44.5"
Vosmaer was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Delft.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Elias Galli painting

Representation of the Old Stock Exchange and Scale
by Elias Galli (the Elder)
circa 1680
German painter from Hamburg

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam painting

The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam
by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665)
1657, Oil on Panel, 25.8" x 33.3"
Saenredam was a Dutch Golden Age painter, from Assendelft.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Maritime painting

Embarkation of a Boat at the Harbor Wall
by a monogrammist CT
1848, oil on canvas, 16.5" x 22.4"

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Jacob van Ruisdael painting

A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape
by Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629-1682)
Oil on canvas laid down on panel, 26" x 20.5"
Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, from Haarlem

Friday, May 29, 2015

Literature Pick #92

Strange Adventures of a Million Dollars
by Ingersoll Lockwood
From the 1891 short story collection Eleven Possible Cases.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
circa 1558, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 28.9" × 44.1"
Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Carl Buntzen painting

Seascape with Sailing Ships off a Coast
by Carl Buntzen (1835-1901)
1875, Oil on Canvas, 11" x 15"

Monday, May 11, 2015

Paintings by Louis Gauffier

Late 18th century paintings of the Arno Valley and the Vallombrosa Abbey, by the French artist Louis Gauffier (1762-1801).

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Albrecht Dürer painting

Saint Jerome
A depiction of St. Jerome in the wilderness.
by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Circa 1495, Oil on Pearwood, 9.1" x 6.9"

German artist of the Northern Renaissance, he was born in Nuremberg.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Literature Pick #91

The Return
by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
Originally published in The Eye-Witness, Vol. 1 No. 1 on June 22, 1911, and then included in Pan's Garden, A Volume of Nature Stories from 1912. Here it is part of the 1920 short story collection The Best Psychic Stories.