RULLEN HUIS  (Rolling Home)

Feliz Verchez    London 1969

Oil on Board    12” Oval

WABBA COLLECTION

Thank you for the submission, Devbarr!

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

I present for your viewing pleasure Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter of the Italian High Renaissance. Her family was peculiar in the fact that all of the daughters (6 of them) received humanist education and all pursued their own interests. While some of them eventually married and dropped what they were doing, Sofonisba pressed on, even after marriage (in fact, her husband was purportedly supportive of her painting). She was so talented that even Michelangelo and Vasari were forced to admit her skill. Visari said of her work, “[she] has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.”

This woman, at a tremendous disadvantage learning human anatomy because of the times and her sex, and living in a time where women were generally dismissed, made one of the greatest artists in the world and the first art historian acknowledge her skill. This lady kicked some serious ass and she’s definitely one of my history crushes.

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Dachstein at Lake Hallstat

Austrian, Oil on Canvas

G. Willert, Albert-Zimmerman School, Vienna Academy 1870s

WABBA COLLECTION 

Thanks for the submission!

victusinveritas:

I’ll admit that I might want an earring in part because of pictures like this.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Peter Saltonstall

malebeautyinart:

“Estudo de Nú” Mário Barbosa via artexplorer @ flickr.

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idlf:

Edgar Maxence - Henri-Marie-Aristide, 1894

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Feng Zikai, one of the best Chinese painters/cartoonists of the 20th century, was a true artist like Honoré Daumier. This painting, titled 登高 （Deng Gao, which can be roughly translated as ascend）, illustrates a famous line by 王安石 （Wang Anshi）, written at the right top of the picture, which reads “不畏浮雲遮望眼，自緣身在最高層 — not afraid of the floating clouds to block my eyes, as I am at the very top (of the mountain).”

To see more of Feng Zikai’s works, click http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-feng-zikai.php 

Hi, thanks for the submission!

Norbert Bisky: Himmelfahrt in Friedrichshain

i hope you like Bisky, as much i do:-)

greetings from berlin. Alex.

Hi Alex, thank you for introducing our readers to this artist, cheers.

broken-blossoms:

Alphonse Mucha

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