Category Archives: Art & Artists

Baiting-Up, by Maud Hunt Squire

DescriptionEnglish: “Baiting Up,” a wood-block print by Maud Hunt Squire. “At the left is a wood block, ‘Baiting-Up,’ by Maud Squires, characteristic of the picturesque old waterfront of Provincetown.”
Date1921
SourceShadowland (https://archive.org/details/Shadowland0504Images/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorMaud Hunt Squire

Sir Frederic Leighton’s Home and Studio

The Studio (North).
The Studio (East).
The Studio with Alcove (West).
The Smaller Studio.
The Vestibule.
The Arab Hall.
DescriptionEnglish: Interior of Sir Frederic Leighton’s home and studio in 1882
Date1882
SourceIllustrated Biographies of Modern Artists (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125011095359/page/n31/mode/2up)
AuthorAnonymous

Michelangelo at 88

DescriptionEnglish: Portrait of Michelangelo at the age of 88 by Adamo Scultori
Date1580
SourceMichael Angelvs Bonarotvs pinxit, Adam Scvlptor Mantvanvs incidit (https://archive.org/details/michaelangelvsbo00scul/page/n5/mode/2up)
AuthorAdamo Scultori

The inscription reads “Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Florentine noble, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, 1561.”