Description | English: “A Woman’s Prison,” engraved on copperplate from a painting by Jean Béraud |
Date | 1890 |
Source | Ideals of Life in France (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000587010/page/n423/mode/2up) |
Author | Jean Béraud |
Category Archives: Art & Artists
Michelangelo at 88
Description | English: Portrait of Michelangelo at the age of 88 by Adamo Scultori |
Date | 1580 |
Source | Michael Angelvs Bonarotvs pinxit, Adam Scvlptor Mantvanvs incidit (https://archive.org/details/michaelangelvsbo00scul/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Adamo Scultori |
The inscription reads “Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Florentine noble, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, 1561.”
The Tiber
Description | English: “Image of the Tiber River in marble, the work of an excellent artist, in the Vatican garden of the Popes in Rome.” Latina: Tiberis Fluvii simulacrum è marmore excellentis artificis opus, in Vaticano Pontificum viridario Romae. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Laocoon
Description | English: “Statue of Laocoon, made from marble with wondrous art, in the Pontifical garden, Rome, not as described by Virgil or Pliny but after the description of the Greek Poets.” Latina: Laocoontis signum e marmore mira arte factum in Pontificio viridario, Romae non quale à Virgilio, ac Plinio, sed cuiusmodi à Gracis Poetis describitur. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Marie-Antoinette Marcotte at Work
Description | English: Marie-Antoinette Marcotte at work in a greenhouse full of chrysanthemums |
Date | 1907 |
Source | Salon des beaux-arts d’Ostende, 1907 (https://archive.org/details/salondesbeauxart00oste/page/n59/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
A Different Scream, by Edvard Munch
Description | English: Drawing by Edvard Munch from Edvard Munch by Max Linde, page 13 |
Date | 1905 |
Source | Edvard Munch (https://archive.org/details/edvardmunch00lind/page/n19/mode/2up) |
Author | Edvard Munch |
Dr. Washington Epps, My Doctor, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Phidias at Work on the Parthenon, by L. Alma-Tadema
Description | English: Phidias at Work on the Parthenon, by L. Alma-Tadema, engraved by J. D. Cooper |
Date | 1886 |
Source | Sir L. Alma-Tadema (https://archive.org/details/sirlalmatademaro00zimm/page/2/mode/2up) |
Author | Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painter; James Davis Cooper, engraver |
Self-Portrait by Bouguereau
Description | English: Self-portrait by William-Adolphe Bouguereau |
Date | 1883 (in print 1900) |
Source | W. Bouguereau (https://archive.org/details/wbouguereau00vach/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | William-Adolphe Bouguereau |
Study of a Young Woman by Bouguereau
Description | English: Study of a young woman, by William Adolphe Bouguereau |
Date | 1900 |
Source | W. Bouguereau (https://archive.org/details/wbouguereau00vach/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | William-Adolphe Bouguereau |