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Félicien Rops - Musée. Felicien Rops. Ο Βέλγος Felicien Rops, έζησε το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της ζωής του στο Παρίσι, ήταν φίλος του Μποντλέρ και ένας από τους πιο προκλητικούς ζωγράφους του Συμβολισμού, πολλά έργα του οποίου είναι άκρως ενοχλητικά για συγκεκριμένες ομάδες ανθρώπων ακόμα και σήμερα.

Felicien Rops

William Blake. The Nightmare. The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Anglo- Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741–1825).

The Nightmare

Since its creation, it has remained Fuseli's best-known work. With its first exhibition in 1782 at the Royal Academy of London, the image became famous; an engraved version was widely distributed and the painting was parodied in political satire. Due to its fame, Fuseli painted at least three other versions of the painting. Description and history[edit] Nicolai Abildgaard. Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (September 11, 1743 – June 4, 1809)[1] was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nicolai Abildgaard

Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg Palace (some destroyed by fire 1794), Fredensborg Palace, and Levetzau Palace at Amalienborg. Abildgaard had studied at the Academy from 1764 to 1767, then worked there as apprentice, and moved to Rome in 1772–1777, where he studied sculpture, architecture, decoration, frescoes (at Palazzo Farnese) and murals. He returned to the Academy in Copenhagen, promoted to professor in 1778, and elected as Academy Director during 1789–1791 and 1801–1809. He was also assigned as a royal artist/decorator during 1780 to 1805.

Yan' Dargent. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Yan' Dargent

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. Du sollst nicht töten (Thou shalt not kill), 1903 Il Tramonto (Sunset) Frage an die Sterne (Asking the Stars), 1898 Sterbender Hirsch (Dying Deer), before 1913.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

Dorothea Tanning. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 – January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet.

Dorothea Tanning

Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. She was also married to fellow Surrealist Max Ernst. Biography[edit] Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942, oil on canvas, 40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in./102.2 x 64.8 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. ©The Estate of Dorothea Tanning Tanning first met Ernst at a party in 1942. Max Ernst. Arnold Böcklin. Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a Swiss symbolist painter .

Arnold Böcklin

Life and art [ edit ] He was born at Basel . Ciudad de la pintura - La mayor pinacoteca virtual. Carlos Schwabe. Witches' Sabbath (Goya, 1798) It was purchased in 1798 along with five other paintings related to witchcraft by the Duke and Duchess of Osuna.[2] The acquisition of the witchcraft paintings is attributed to the duchess rather than her husband, but it is not known whether they were commissioned or bought after completion.[3] In the twentieth century the painting was purchased by the financier José Lázaro Galdiano and donated to the Spanish state on his death.

Witches' Sabbath (Goya, 1798)

Witches' Sabbath shows the devil in the form of a garlanded goat, surrounded by a coven of disfigured, young and aging witches in a moonlit barren landscape. The goat possesses large horns and is crowned by a wreath of oak leaves. An old witch holds an infant in her hands. The devil seems to be acting as priest at an initiation ceremony for the child, though popular superstition at the time believed the devil often fed on children and human fetuses. Typical of the imagery of witchcraft, many of the symbols used are inverted. Luis Ricardo Falero. Spanish, 1851 - 1896 19 pictures.

Luis Ricardo Falero

Luis Ricardo Falero. "The Pose", a classic Falero showcasing a female nude Luis Ricardo Falero (1851 – December 7, 1896), Duke of Labranzano, was a Spanish painter.

Luis Ricardo Falero

He specialized in female nudes and mythological and fantasy settings.[1] Most of his paintings contained at least one female nude or topless nude. His most common medium was oil on canvas. Luis Ricardo Falero. Luis Falero, a Spanish-born painter (1851-1896) who lived most of his life in London, is one of a number of painters concentrating on the nude, shown in a highly-finished manner, and in a mythological or fairy tale setting.

At his best, Falero's paintings show an almost super-realist talent for depicting the female form, but many of his girls are rather coy, with an emphasis on sexiness and not much effort at a subject - pin-ups rather than high art. Falero wavers on both sides of the line between a beautiful nude and artistic girl, and an oversweet coquettish Salon painting. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Witches' Sabbath - WGA10007. Mossa, peintre symboliste niçois. Alexis Mossa (1844-1926) fut un peintre niçois qui redonna ses lettres de noblesse au Carnaval de Nice à la fin du 19ème siècle. CIRCE.pdf - CIRCE.pdf.

Edmund Dulac Art Images. Kay Nielsen. Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) était un illustrateur danois populaire au début du vingtième siècle, lors de 'l'âge d'or de l'illustration'. Gustave Doré. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (/dɔːˈreɪ/; French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving. Biography[edit] «Le Christ quittant le prétoire» Arthur Rackham. Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Biography[edit] Rackham was born in Lewisham, then still part of Kent as one of 12 children. Rackham Fairy and Fairy Tale Art (Arthur Rackham) Alfred Kubin. Profile[edit] Biography[edit] From 1906 until his death, he lived a withdrawn life in a small castle on a 12th-century estate in Zwickledt, Upper Austria.[4] In 1938, at the Anschluss of Austria and Nazi Germany, his work was declared entartete Kunst or "degenerate art",[6] but he managed to continue working during World War II.

Honours and awards[edit] Le blog de Raymond-Douillet-Peintures. Le blog de Benjamin Lacombe. Facebook. Arthur Hughes, Dark Thoughts. Arthur Hughes - WikiGallery.org, the largest gallery in the world.