Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velasquez (lemm.ee)
Euphiletos Painter Panathenaic Amphora (depicting Athena)- Painted terracotta (530BC) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Painted as a prize for the Panathenaic Games. Reverse depicts a foot race
Bone Spinning Jenny - Napoleonic POW bone carving (c1790) (image.invaluable.com)
Library - Nix and Gerber (2007) miniature sculpture (storage.googleapis.com)
Zoomable close-up
Portrait of a Musician - Leonardo Da Vinci (1483-1487) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Unfinished and Da Vinci’s only known male portrait, oil on walnut.
Doni Tondo - Michaelangelo (c1507) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Birth of Venus - Sandro Botticelli (mid 1480s) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Night Watch, Militia Company in District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Bannock Cocq (1642) by Rembrandt van Rijn (lemm.ee)
Was playing Horizon Forbidden West last night and the game had you go through a gallery of Dutch art to explore the motivations and background of several characters. Very unexpected, and might be the favorite moment of the game. Night Watch was one of the pieces in that gallery.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee - Rembrandt (1633) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Purchased by Bernard Berenson for Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1869 and was displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston before its theft in 1990; it remains missing.
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun - William Blake (1805-1810) watercolour (upload.wikimedia.org)
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2073256...
Kongzi (Confucius) - Kanō Sansetsu (狩野 山雪 1589–1651) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Portrait of Jane Seymour - H. Holbein the Younger (1537) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Stonehenge - John Constable, watercolour (1835) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Card Players - Paul Cezanne (1894–95) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur - Joseph Ducreux (1793) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Not often you see an accomplished artist make such an direct and confronting self portrait.
Chambers Street and the Municipal Building, N.Y.C. - Colin Campbell Cooper (1922) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Kingdom by ryky (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1992319...
The Painter's Eye by Salvador Dali (lemmy.world)
Note: this piece is also referred to as the “Paint-Makers Plight”...
relaxing in the shade - Yamakawa Shuho - Yamakawa Shuho 1933 (dailyart-ng.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com)
River Landscape with Cows (1640) by Aelbert Cuyp (lemmy.world)
The way he captures light is beautiful
Utica (A Quiet Day in Utica) - , C.M. Russell(1907) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Reminds me of Copland