Historical painting

Art Gallery on Instagram: “The Lunatic of Étretat, 1871 by Hugues Merle (1822-1881) O Lunático de Étretat, 1871 de Hugues Merle…”

Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance. The stories told by works of art are the stuff of novels. Here are a few of the stories behind famous masterpieces.

Jacques-Louis David, celebrated French painter and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical style. David won wide acclaim for his huge canvases on classical themes, events from the French Revolution, and the achievements of Napoleon.

Children, mothers, aunts, half-sisters, cousins, in-laws.... (And what's the daughter of a half-sister? A "half-niece"...?) Prince ...

An architectural capriccio with an apostle preaching

Battle of Trafalgar

Antonietta Brandeis - Marco Gozzi - Carlo Bossoli - Giovanni Grubas - Carlo Grubas - Jacques François Carabain - Carlo Grubas

“❝He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked. How he hated it; desperately he had tried to keep it burning.❞ ──𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, These Violent Delights.”

This post was originally published at Parabola.org on January 29, 2015. It is amazing that something so tiny could pack such a punch. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is tantalizingly brief—and, frustratingly, two major sections are missing, reducing the original seventeen manuscript pages by more than half. Yet what remains is more than enough to radically overturn […]

'Stańczyk' by Jan Matejko (1862).

Lippert: The Young Apprentice. But if course it is the reflection of the older man which grabs the attention, not the apparent and superficial subject of the picture. re-blogged from blastedheath

Annie Stegg Gerard

View PIA DE' TOLOMEI By Ussi Stefano; oil on canvas; cm 81 x 56.5; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.