Among the highest and most noble manifestations of the artistic spirit, painting takes pride of place. It enchants and captivates its creator as well as the art-lovers.
Painting influences our aesthetic, emotional and intellectual interaction with ourselves and with the outside world. It should, indeed it must, be part of our food for the survival of our souls so heavily tested by the excessive speed at which modern life evolves.
To satisfy the desire of being always in contact with "beauty" in the form of painting, , I introduced in this blog some of my prefered paintings by those artists whose work I was able and allowed to transfer and present here.
William Blake
(1757-1827)
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| Ancient of Days |
Sandro Botticelli
(1447-1510)
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| Primavera |
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| Pallas and the Centaur |
John Constable
(1776-1837)
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| Study of Clouds |
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| Windmill near Brighton |
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452-1519)
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| Leda and the Swan |
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| Lady with an Ermine |
Jacques-Louis David
(1743-1825)
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| The Death of Marat |
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| Portrait of Madame Récamier |
Edgar Degas
(1834-1917)
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| Ballerina |
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| Dance Greenroom |
Anthony Van Dyck
(1599-1641)
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| Charles 1 |
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| James Stuart, Duke of Richmond |
Albrecht Durer
(1471-1528)
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Self Portrait
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| Kaiser Maximillion I |
El Greco
(1541-1614)
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| The Burial of the Count of Orgoz |
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| View of Toledo |
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| Betrothal of the Virgin |
Paul Gaugin
(1848-1903)
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| The seed of Areci |
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| Self Portrait |
Francesco Goya
(1746-1828)
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| La maja vestida |
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| The Third of Maay 1805 |
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
(1780-1867)
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| Grande Odelisque |
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| The Source |
Hokusai Katsushika
(1797-1858)
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| THe Great Wave of Kanagawa |
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| Red Fuji |
Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
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| Judith |
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| Hope 1 |
Edouard Manet
(1832-1883)
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| Dejeuner sur l'herbe |
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| Olympia |
Michelangelo
(1475-1564)
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| Sistine Chapel Ceiling |
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| Leda and the Swan |
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| Doni Tondo |
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| The Last Judgement |
Amedeo Modigliani
(1884-1920)
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| Jeune Femme |
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| Seates Nude |
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| Madame Hanka Zborowska |
Claude Monet
(1840-1926)
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| The japanese Bridge |
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| Water Lilies |
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| Woman Reading |
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| The woman in the green dress |
Rembrandt
(1606-1689)
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| The anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp |
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| A Scholar |
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| Olive Foote Lay |
Henri Rousseau
(1844-1910)
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| Eve |
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| Exotic Landscape |
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640)
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| Venus at the mirror |
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| Leda and the Swan |
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| The Three Graces |
Raphael Sanzio
(1483-1520)
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| The Three Graces |
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| Madonna and Child |
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| Madonna del Granduca |
Egon Schiele
(1890-1918)
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| Pair of Women |
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| Zuruckgelehnte Frau |
Titian
(1480-1576)
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| Maria Magdelena |
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| Venus of Urbino |
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| Mercantonio Trevisani |
Tommaso Masaccio
(1401-1428)
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| The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden |
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(1864-1901)
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| La Clowness Looks Around, Madamoiselle Cha-U-Kao |
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| Mme. Honorine P. |
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(1775-1851)
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| The Shipwreck of the Minotaur |
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| The Battle of Trafalgar |
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| The Burning of the Houses of Parliament |
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| The Fighting Temeraire |
Vincent Van Gogh
(1853-1890)
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| Irises |
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| Self-portrait with bandaged ear |
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| Self Portrait August 1889 |
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| Self Portrait September 1889 |
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| The Olive Trees |
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| Sunflowers or Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers |
Diego Velazquez
(1599-1660)
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| La rendicion de Breda |
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| The Rokeby Venus |
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| Portrait of Pope Innocent X |
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| Las Meninas |
Johannes Vermeer
(1632-1675)
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| The Concert |
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| The Girl with the Pearl Earring |
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| Girl with a Red Hat |
