Edgar Degas. After the Bath. 1884. Pastel on paper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Les mer»Margaret Bourke-White Russian peasants riding on a wagon in Siberia. Magnitogorsk, Russia (1931)
Les mer»Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter Greek, about 540-530 BC Made in Athens, Greece; found at Vulci (now in Lazio, Italy) Achilles killing the Amazon Queen Penthesilea Penthesilea brought her Amazon warriors to help the Trojans defend their city, but was killed in combat with Achilles, the […]
Les mer»Margaret Bourke-White Russian peasant women eating food fr. the same bowl. Georgia, Russia (1932)
Les mer»Arnold Böcklin In the Sea, Private Collection
Les mer»Christopher Caldwell, forfatter av boken Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Boken utkommer på Document forlag til høsten. Document.no inviterer leserne til dugnad for å finansiere oversettelsen av denne uhyre viktige boken om Europas fremtid. Document forlag har fått tillatelse til å legge ut kapitlene online. Håpet er at leserne skal bli så begeistret at […]
Les mer»Icon of St George (‘The Black George’) Byzantine, late 14th century AD From the village of Pskov, north-western Russia An early masterpiece of Russian painting This extraordinary icon was discovered in 1959 in the tiny village of Pskov, which lies on the River Pinega, a tributary of the Severnaya Dvina which flows into the White […]
Les mer»Jean-François Millet (Gréville-Hague, 1814 – Barbizon, 1875) Angelus, 1859 (opprinnelig kalt Bønn for potetavlingen) Olje på lerret – 55 x 66 cm – Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Les mer»Caravaggio (Milano, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610) Paulus’ omvendelse (1601) Olje på lerret – 230 x 175 cm – Santa Maria del Popolo, Roma Jeg mente selv en gang at det var en plikt å sette alt inn på bekjempe nasareeren Jesu navn. Det gjorde jeg også i Jerusalem. Jeg fikk fullmakt fra overprestene og […]
Les mer»Arnold Boecklin Lovers in Front of a Shrubbery, 1864, Oils
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