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Post by trescuinge on Feb 23, 2016 20:58:35 GMT -5
A place to list the works and artists from around the world and throughout time that you find interesting.
Urs Graff was a Renaissance Swiss mercenary and goldsmith. His drawings abound in depictions of mercenaries, prostitutes and demons.
bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/01/graphic-mercenary.html
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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2016 21:07:17 GMT -5
Not only was Graf an all-around artist, he was also quite the wildman! Thanks, Trescuinge.
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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2016 21:12:59 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2016 14:01:15 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2016 14:09:49 GMT -5
Katsushika Hokusai:  |
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Post by trescuinge on Feb 24, 2016 21:21:16 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 25, 2016 21:34:10 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Feb 27, 2016 16:33:49 GMT -5
Thanks Deuce, Ken Laager's stuff is great. I especially like the little touches like the litter of spent brass on the ground.
An exhibition of the works of Harvey Dunn is just finishing up at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
www.nrm.org/digital/harveydunn/
Dunn was another brilliant student of Howard Pyle.
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Post by deuce on Mar 11, 2016 21:19:36 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 13, 2016 13:17:51 GMT -5
Benvenuto Cellini, talented sculptor, accidental soldier, enthusiastic duellist, unrepentant murderer, and writer of one of the frankest and most entertaining autobiographies of all time.
www.everypainterpaintshimself.com/article/cellinis_perseus
An incident during the Sack of Rome:
I frequently received visits also from the general, Orazio Baglioni, who was very well affected toward me. One day while he was talking with me, he noticed something going forward in a drinking-place outside the Porta di Castello, which bore the name of Baccanello. This tavern had for sign a sun painted between two windows, of a bright red colour. The windows being closed, Signor Orazio concluded that a band of soldiers were carousing at table just between them and behind the sun. So he said to me Benvenuto, if you think that you could hit that wall an ells breadth from the sun with your demi-cannon here, I believe you would be doing a good stroke of business, for there is a great commotion there, and men of much importance must probably be inside the house. I answered that I felt quite capable of hitting the sun in its centre, but that a barrel full of stones, which was standing close to the muzzle of the gun, might be knocked down by the shock of the discharge and the blast of the artillery. He rejoined: Dont waste time, Benvenuto. In the first place, it is not possible, where it is standing, that the cannons blast should bring it down; and even if it were to fall, and the Pope himself was underneath, the mischief would not be so great as you imagine. Fire, then, only fire! Taking no more thought about it, I struck the sun in the centre, exactly as I said I should. The cask was dislodged, as I predicted, and fell precisely between Cardinal Farnese and Messer Jacopo Salviati. It might very well have dashed out the brains of both of them, except that just at that very moment Farnese was reproaching Salviati with having caused the sack of Rome, and while they stood apart from one another to exchange opprobrious remarks, my gabion fell without destroying them. When he heard the uproar in the court below, good Signor Orazio dashed off in a hurry; and I, thrusting my neck forward where the cask had fallen, heard some people saying; It would not be a bad job to kill that gunner! Upon this I turned two falconets toward the staircase, with mind resolved to let blaze on the first man who attempted to come up. The household of Cardinal Farnese must have received orders to go and do me some injury; accordingly I prepared to receive them, with a lighted match in hand. Recognising some who were approaching, I called out: You lazy lubbers, if you dont pack off from there, and if but a mans child among you dares to touch the staircase, I have got two cannon loaded, which will blow you into powder. Go and tell the Cardinal that I was acting at the order of superior officers, and that what we have done and are doing is in defence of them priests, and not to hurt them. They made away; and then came Signor Orazio Baglioni, running. I bade him stand back, else I'd murder him; for I knew very well who he was. He drew back a little, not without a certain show of fear, and called out: Benvenuto, I am your friend! To this I answered: Sir, come up, but come alone, and then come as you like.
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 16, 2016 19:20:23 GMT -5
Does anyone know anything about the life of H.M. Herget?
He did a lot of great paintings for National Geographic back in the 30's and 40's.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 13:50:44 GMT -5
Arthur Rackham  Siegfried and the Rhine-Maidens |
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Post by deuce on Mar 27, 2016 20:19:24 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jul 4, 2016 12:56:11 GMT -5
NC Wyeth is one of America's greatest artist. Period.  |
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Post by deuce on Jul 4, 2016 14:24:48 GMT -5
More NC Wyeth on the 4th of July:  |
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