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CW: Artistic nudity
Allegory of water, personified by Venus, part of an album by Adriaen Collaert, after Maerten de Vos, ca. 1580.
Rijksmuseum -- pdimagearchive.org --Public domain
#Art #Venus #Allegory #AdriaenCollaert #MaertenDeVos #Engraving #Print #FlemishArt #16thCenturyArt
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Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, LondonOne of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...#Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism
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Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, LondonOne of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...#Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism
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Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, LondonOne of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...#Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism
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Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, LondonOne of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...#Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism
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Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, LondonOne of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...#Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism