Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Sunday

FRAGONARD Jean-Honoré The Reader c. 1770–1772

FRAGONARD Jean-Honoré The Reader c. 1770–1772
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La Liseuse. Oil on canvas, 82 × 65 cm (32.28 × 25.59 in) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Wednesday

REMBRANDT The Holy Family with Angels (Mary) 1645

REMBRANDT The Holy Family with Angels (Mary) 1645Medium Large Xlarge (2219w x 2153h) Full painting
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Oil on canvas, 117 x 91 cm, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

REMBRANDT The Holy Family with Angels (Mary's face) 1645Click for full size (1779w x 1809h)

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Friday

REDON, Odilon Alsace or Monk Reading, 1914

redon, alsace, monk, reading, 1914, book, story, hariberth
Medium Large Xlarge
Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916, Symbolism
Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 54.2 cm, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)
l’Alsace ou moine lisant

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Saturday

CIMABUE Christ Enthroned between the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (detail) 1301-02

CIMABUE Christ Enthroned between the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (head) 1301-02Xlarge Another location Full-lenght
Mosaic, 385 x 223 cm, in the apsis in the Cathedral (Duomo) of Pisa

The full mosaic is not by Cimabue... perhaps only the head of St. John, according to Wikipedia

Apsis - a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar (Dictionary.com)

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CIMABUE Christ Enthroned between the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (book, hands) 1301-02