The Arnolfini Portrait - Jan van Eyck (1434) oil on oak (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Taken from the wiki page on the tragedy itself - “Through inept navigation by her captain, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, who had been given command after the Bourbon Restoration for political reasons and even though he had hardly sailed in 20 years, Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of present-day Mauritania and...
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Part of a series of 10 portraits, a commissioned series for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget. The Salpêtrière asylum in Paris was like other institutions at the time, nowhere near the level of insight and care provided by modern mental health services. A history of mental illness in the artist’s own family likely made...
Nikola Petrov was a Bulgarian landscape painter and graphic artist; also known for his portrait sketches and watercolors....
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Schooled as an architect in his native Santiago, Chile, Matta went to Paris in 1933 to work for the famed modernist architect Le Corbusier. By the mid-1930s, Matta had become friendly with members of the Surrealist circle, and in 1937, influenced by both Surrealist techniques, including automatism, and his architectural...
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore....
Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City’s interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Scharf’s do-it-yourself practice spanned painting, sculpture, fashion, video, performance art, and street art....
Sonja Ingrid Bata was a Swiss Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, collector and museum founder, who initially trained as an architect....