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#ChessmenAndChessSets
Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
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#ChessmenAndChessSets
Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
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#ChessInVisualArts
Michael Wolgemut or Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshops of)
Xerses Phus
Woodcut
74 mm × 55 mm
Originally part of the Liber Chronicarum, Nürnberg 1493
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (@rijksmuseum)
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #VisualArts #woodcut #XersesPhus #Schedel1493Latin

#ChessInVisualArts
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Shōgi chess board, #chess pieces and spring flowers in blue-and-white porcelain pot
21 x 18.6 cm
Print, surimono
1822
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, USA
#shōgi #ChessSet #chessmen #GraphicArts #KatsushikaHokusai
📷 @harvartmuseums

#ChessInVisualArts
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Shōgi chess board, #chess pieces and spring flowers in blue-and-white porcelain pot
21 x 18.6 cm
Print, surimono
1822
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, USA
#shōgi #ChessSet #chessmen #GraphicArts #KatsushikaHokusai
📷 @harvartmuseums

#ChessInVisualArts
Unknown artist
Chess players
Panel of civil stained glass from the Hôtel de la Bessée in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
54.2 x 54 cm
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Musée de Cluny, Paris
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #StainedGlas #15thCentury
📷 @museecluny

Hello art book publishers!
Is anyone planning a high-quality art book (coffee-table book) about
chess in visual arts (chess related artworks)?
There is so much to discover!
#chess #arts #VisualArts #ChessLiterature #publisher
📷 & further examples ➡️ #ChessInVisualArts

#ChessInVisualArts
James Cook (1904-1960)
The chess players
Oil on board
1958
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #JamesCook
📷 collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39490

#ChessLiterature #RareBook #ChessAutographs

#Philidor1779 👇
Copy from the #chess collection of #LotharSchmid.
With frontispiece #portrait of #FrançoisAndréDanicanPhilidor.

#ChessHistory #ExLibris #bookplate #PaulHorlbog #EfimBogoljubow #JensEnevoldsen #ChessInVisualArts
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#ChessLiterature #RareBook #ChessAutographs

#Philidor1779 👇
Copy from the #chess collection of #LotharSchmid.
With frontispiece #portrait of #FrançoisAndréDanicanPhilidor.

#ChessHistory #ExLibris #bookplate #PaulHorlbog #EfimBogoljubow #JensEnevoldsen #ChessInVisualArts
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#ChessInVisualArts 27/n
Daniel Garber
Mother and Son
Oil on canvas
1933
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
#chess #VisualArts #painting #GarberDaniel #Garber1933

#ChessAndHumour
Erich Ohser aka e.o.plauen (1903-1944)
"Check to the father"
From the series "Father and Son" (1934-1937)
First published: 1935 in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 28
#ChessInVisualArts #comic #SilentComic #cartoon #FatherAndSon #ErichOhser #eoplauen #chess

#ChessAndHumour
Erich Ohser aka e.o.plauen (1903-1944)
"Check to the father"
From the series "Father and Son" (1934-1937)
First published: 1935 in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 28
#ChessInVisualArts #comic #SilentComic #cartoon #FatherAndSon #ErichOhser #eoplauen #chess

#ChessAndHumour
Erich Ohser aka e.o.plauen (1903-1944)
"Check to the father"
From the series "Father and Son" (1934-1937)
First published: 1935 in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 28
#ChessInVisualArts #comic #SilentComic #cartoon #FatherAndSon #ErichOhser #eoplauen #chess

#ChessAndHumour
Erich Ohser aka e.o.plauen (1903-1944)
"Check to the father"
From the series "Father and Son" (1934-1937)
First published: 1935 in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 28
#ChessInVisualArts #comic #SilentComic #cartoon #FatherAndSon #ErichOhser #eoplauen #chess

#ChessAndHumour
Erich Ohser aka e.o.plauen (1903-1944)
"Check to the father"
From the series "Father and Son" (1934-1937)
First published: 1935 in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 28
#ChessInVisualArts #comic #SilentComic #cartoon #FatherAndSon #ErichOhser #eoplauen #chess

#ChessInVisualArts
Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921)
Chess problem (The chess players)
Oil on wood
1889
Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #IsidorKaufmann
📷 Birgit and Peter Kainz, Wien Museum
➡️ sammlung.wienmuseum.at/objekt/43419-s…

#ChessInVisualArts
The chess players
from
Carmina Burana
Illuminated manuscript
Styria/Carinthia or South Tyrol
around 1230 - 14th c.
BSB Munich, Germany; Clm 4660, f.92r
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #CarminaBurana #MiddleAges
➡️ digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb000…

#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Rook (Roche)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #rook #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Bishop (Schütze)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #bishop #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: King (König)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #king #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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#ChessInVisualArts
Raffaello Sorbi (1844-1931)
Osteria at Fiesole
Oil on canvas
1889
Private Collection
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #RaffaelloSorbi #Tuscany
➡️ chess.com/blog/MomirRado…

#ChessInVisualArts
Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935)
The game of chess
1896
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #Ludwig Deutsch
📷 WikimediaCommons

#ChessInVisualArts
John Carwitham (active c. 1723–41)
A chess game between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of other gods
Frontispiece from #Vida1736
#Engraving
c. 1736
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #MarcoGirolamoVida #JohnCarwitham #ChessInLiterature
📷 metmuseum.org/art/collection…
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#ChessInVisualArts
Jean-Henri Marlet (1771-1847)
The #chess match between #HowardStaunton and #PierreCharlesFournierDeSaintAmant, on 16 December 1843
Oil on canvas
c. 1843/1845
Private collection (?)
#ChessHistory #CaféDeLaRégence #painting #JeanHenriMarlet
📷 WikimediaCommons

#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Palamedes(-Selenus) playing dice and chess during the Siege of Troy
Engraving
1616
Detail from the title page of:
#Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#chess #dice #LegendOfOrigin #Palamedes #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
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#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT) showing the legend of Palamedes (in the upper three images)
Engraving
1616
#chess #dice #LegendOfOrigin #Palamedes #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
➡️
digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schach1…
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#ChessInVisualArts
David Hockney (b. 1937)
Man Ray
Lithograph on paper
1976
National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.
#chess #ChessPlayer #ManRay #VisualArts #lithography #DavidHockney

#ChessInVisualArts
Master B. R. (engraver in the late 15th c., Lower Rhine)
Check to the King (King and Death playing chess)
Engraving
2nd half of the 15th c.
Albertina, Vienna, Austria, No. DG1928/248
#chess #death #king #morality #religion #allegory #VisibleArts #engraving



twitter.com/babel56/status/157…

#ChessInVisualArts
Charles Meer Webb (1830-1895)
A game of chess
Oil on canvas
2nd half of the 19th century
Private Collection (?)
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #CharlesMeerWebb
📷 Wikimedia Commons

#ChessInVisualArts
Cornelis de Man (1621-1706)
The chess players
Oil on canvas
c. 1670
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #CornelisDeMan

#ChessInVisualArts
Charles Meer Webb (1830-1895)
Checkmate
Oil on canvas
1864
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #CharlesMeerWebb

#ChessInVisualArts 42a/n
Follower of Caravaggio
Chess players
Oil on canvas
17th century
Private collection
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #Caravaggio #CaravaggioFollower
Cf. dorotheum.com/en/l/5137217/