Rue Ste. Julie, Quebec, 1972

 BY JOHN LITTLE

Jean-Paul Lemieux (Canadian, 1904-1990)

  'Solstice d'hiver (winter solstice)' 

 1961

The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Henry Raeburn 1795

 Microsoft Dog Rover

 Max Jacob  

Autoportrait  

1932

MIKE OUSLEY:

UFO Cult, 2022

Acrylic and mica powder on panel

 

Renée Perle, 1930.

by Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)

ARTIST Katherine Bradford

DATE OF BIRTH (b. 1942)

DATE 2013

MEDIUM Oil on canvas

DIMENSIONS 80 x 68 in. (203.2 x 172.72 cm.)

This week, let’s dive into the Academy’s collections, with Louis Dupré and Sébastien Norblin’s painting from 1835 capturing the moment when “Châteaubriand receives Grand Duchess Hélène of Russia in the gardens of Villa Medici on April 29th with 1829 "

In the center of the Square, the Duchess is welcomed by Châteaubriand, then Ambassador of France to the Holy See, and Academy Director Horace Vernet. Upper left, on the Terrace of the Forest, you can see a tent that should have repaired the guests. However, some sources report that on the morning of April 29, 1829 a strong wind blew over Rome, blowing out the curtain and pushing guests into the Grand Hall of the Villa. Painters would have so adorned the scene and sky of Rome that day...

👀 Can you spot the evolution of the building since the 19th century? The more attentive eyes will notice that the Bronze Mercury on the balcony of the Lodge has disappeared and that the buildings in the wing have undergone several modifications...

 Jheronimus Bosch  

Fall of the Rebel Angels, detail from Garden of Eden, left shutter, Haywain triptych, oil on panel  

147 x 45 cm.  

Museo del Prado, Madrid,

Master Bertram, 

 Fall of the Rebel Angels, detail from the Grabow Altarpiece, ca. 1389, 

 paint on wood, 277 x 726 cm.  

Kunsthalle, Hamburg

 Pieter Bruegel the Elder 

The Tower of Babel  

1563, oil on panel, 114 x 155cm. 

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, 

 Mr. Hulot's Holiday

It took 10 years for the photographer, Marcella Giulla Pace, to capture these 48 colors of the Moon

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)

'Autoportrait à la canne et au canotier (Self-portrait with cane and boater)

By Slim Aarons (1916 - 2006)

 by Aaron Zulpo

 SANDRO BOTTICELLI 

Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), 

ca. 1480 – 1485

Figure

by Jackson Pollock

1948

 

 ARNOLD BÖCKLIN 

Villa by the Sea, 1871 – 1874

Ancient Cuzco

On the Beach (also known as Two Girls Against the Light) 

by Maurice Denis  

1892

The largest animal rock petroglyphs in the world; known as Dabous Giraffes, located in Air Massif, Niger

Dated 12000-7000 BC; was known as Neolithic Subpluvial, a time when Sahara was a much wetter savannah that stretched thousands of miles and could sustain animal and human life.

Decorative Shell Pendant; from

Mexico, 1200-1500 years.

In pre-Columbian cultures, shells were used to make everyday objects; spoons, harpoons, buttons and jewelry. They were used to make instruments, horns, used in religious ceremonies and everyday games.

Bowers Museum

A gorgeous image from the sunken city of Heracleion near the coast of Alexandria in Egypt.

Dryburgh Abbey was one of the great medieval monasteries of Scotland. Substantial ruins of the 12th-century Premonstratensian abbey stand in a beautiful secluded setting on the River Tweed.

BOYS WATCHING A MATCH FROM OUTSIDE Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, July 14, 1932.

A group of young boys sit perched in a tree trying to catch a glimpse of Cubs pitcher Guy Bush shutting down the Brooklyn Dodgers in a 4-1 win. 

(Fantastic colorization by Imbued with Hues)

 

This remarkable 12th-century monument, the Tower of Toghrul, is located in the city of Rey in Iran. It once bore a conical roof, which is thought to have been destroyed by an earthquake. Its uses have been widely disputed. Some say it was a form of sundial, by which the time could be read according to where the sunlight fell on its exterior. Others that it was a lighthouse, guiding Silk-Road travellers on foggy nights, or, perhaps, that it served as a mausoleum. What is undeniable, however, is its structural beauty, evidenced in this colourised version of a photograph believed to have been taken by Luigi Pesce in the 1860s.

Bedroom  

Nelly Agassi

2005

Frank Breuer

Untitled (1349 Lexington, Massachusetts)

2004 

 

Rififi at the beach (Cannes, 1955)

 

Self-portrait of the Artist 

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Rue Halévy, view from the 6th floor

1878

by Gustave Caillebotte

This photo is from the mid-19th century excavation of the colossal statues at the Nergal Gate of the ancient city of Nineveh. This statue was one of two winged bull-men (aka lamassu ) that guarded one of several entrances to Nineveh dated to the time of King Sennacherib.

 Diebenkorn photos that were used to make paintings

artist:  Jean-François Raffaëlli

This Day, 1993 

by JUKKA VÄNTTINEN

Chris Burden’s drawing for 

“The Ever Burning American Flag”

 (2009)

Pinecone (Painted in the early 1930s)

by REUBEN MEDNIKOFF (1906-1975) 

Plane Tree in Paris  

by Brassaï  

1938

 

Artist: MARCEL MARIËN (1920-1993) 

It was 1970 and 23 year old engineering student Gary Anderson invented the recycling logo.

Today it is one of the most duplicated non-product logos in the world.

François Barraud (Swiss, 1899-1934)  

Fille au Travail (girl at work)

 1933

 Dogs on a Leash 

by Francisco de Goya

George Washington 

by Léon Cogniet (French, 1794-1880)

Mont Blanc Sunset

 1906 

Wenzel August Hablik (Swiss, 1881-1934), 

7 A.M. (New Year's Morning)  

László Moholy-Nagy 

c. 1930