Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Souvenir by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display featured artist of the day is Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the French painter whose scenes of frivolity and gallantry are the finest examples of the Rococo spirit.  The Rococo style of art was characterised by lightness, grace, playfulness … Continue reading →

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The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display featured painting today is a very strange one.  It is Bosch-like in its depiction and I find it fascinating, part of the fascination coming from the story that comes with it.  The painting is entitled The … Continue reading →

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The Father’s Curse and The Punished Son by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display today looks at a work by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze.  His work was praised by the French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot who claimed that Greuze’s paintings were, as he succinctly put it, “morality in … Continue reading →

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Portrait of Andrea Odoni by Lorenzo Lotto

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

The featured artist in My Daily Art Display today is Lorenzo Lotto. He was born in Venice around 1480 and although little is known of his early life we but we know that he was greatly influenced by the works … Continue reading →

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Charity by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

It used to be the “in thing” when one talked about what one was studying to reel off a list of “-ologys”.  It always sounded very impressive.  In the art world there is the tendency to group artists in “-isms” and not … Continue reading →

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The White House at Chelsea by Thomas Girtin

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

From Tudor-period portraiture by a Flemish artist yesterday, I am switching today to a landscape painting by an English Artist.  My Daily Art Display’s featured artist today is Thomas Girtin who was born in Southwark, London in 1775.  Girtin was … Continue reading →

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Mary Neville, Baroness Dacre by Hans Eworth

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display today is a story of three people, the artist the woman who sat for her portrait and the man shown in a picture within the painting.  The featured artist today is the sixteenth century Flemish painter, … Continue reading →

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Portraits of Johann the Steadfast and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display featured artist today is the German Renaissance painter and designer of woodcuts, Lucas Cranach the Elder.  He was born in Kronach a small German town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria in 1472.  His adopted surname was a … Continue reading →

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Woman in Front of a Mirror by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

Before I embarked on My Daily Art Display blog, I could reel off a list of my favourite artists, all of who would be familiar names to you,  but now, over the last six months I have added many new … Continue reading →

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The Finding of Moses by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

My featured painter today is Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.  He was born Laurens Alma Tadema in 1836 in Dronrijp, a small West Frisian village in Northern Netherlands.  His father Pieter was the village notary and his mother,  Hinke Brouwer, the half … Continue reading →

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