Tag Archives: 18th Century

1781: Angelica Kauffmann

Posted on September 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Angelica Kauffmann: Self-Portraits, 1770-75 and 1781

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1737: An Allegory of Justice Combating Injustice

Posted on September 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jean-Marc Nattier: An Allegory of Justice Combating Injustice (c. 1737); I’m not sure why she’s using a backscratcher.

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1969: The Color of Pomegranates

Posted on September 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates is an impressionistic biography of the 18th century Armenian ashug (poet/bard/troubadour) Sayat-Nova. Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli plays multiple roles in the film, both male and female, and the film has been seen … Continue reading →

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1940: The White Horse

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Eric Ravilious: Train Landscape (1940) The background of this painting features the Westbury White Horse, a figure on the slope of Salisbury Plain in England. As the earliest documentation dates from 1742, the horse was likely created in the first … Continue reading →

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1943: Miniature Mount Vernon

Posted on August 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

This miniature reproduction of the West Parlor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon was crafted by Narcissa Niblack Thorne. The photo on the left shows the room being prepared for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1943. Thorne’s detailed … Continue reading →

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1786: Clouds

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Simon Alexandre Clément Denis: Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome (1786 – 1801)

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1733: Vision / Eclipse

Posted on August 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

Cosmas Damian Asam: Vision of St. Benedict (1735) “The canvas shows an elderly saint who, confronted by a solar eclipse, seems to experience a seizure—as well as enlightenment—at the moment when light erupts from the celestial sphere, as described in … Continue reading →

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1773: Withered Shrubs

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

In Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock’s epic poem The Messiah, published from 1748 to 1773, Satan tricks Judas into betraying Jesus by appearing to him in a dream “in the form of his father…with disconsolate looks of grief and perturbation,” telling him … Continue reading →

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1754: Il Disinganno

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Francesco Queirolo: Release from Deception [detail] (1754)

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1793: With Jocund Music Charm his Ear

Posted on August 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

Henry Fuseli: The Shepherd’s Dream, from “Paradise Lost” (1793) The “shepherd’s dream” in Paradise Lost (1667) is an extended simile that Milton uses at the end of Book I after Satan and his fallen angels have lost in their first … Continue reading →

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