#neoclassicism — Public Fediverse posts
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Landscape with Polyphemus, Nicolas Poussin (1649), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/03/landscape-with-polyphemus-nicolas.html
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Groom in the Greek Style (1771) by Benigno Bossi, from Mascarade à la Grecque.
Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/be56f26f-b8d9-4c0b-bfbe-330f975216b7
#greek #costumes #neoclassicism #armor #design #architecture #shields #helmets #fashion #art #publicdomain
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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.
One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)
He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.
The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #PierreAugusteRenoir #Impressionism #Neoclassicism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday
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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.
One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)
He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.
The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #PierreAugusteRenoir #Impressionism #Neoclassicism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday
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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.
One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)
He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.
The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #PierreAugusteRenoir #Impressionism #Neoclassicism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday
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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.
One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)
He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.
The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #PierreAugusteRenoir #Impressionism #Neoclassicism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday
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"Girl in a Red Ruff," Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1896.
One of the all-time great Impressionists, Renoir (1841-1919) was becoming disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s. He traveled in Italy, partly to visit museums and partly seeking relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that was hindering his life at the time. (He ended up moving to the Mediterranean coast of France, hoping the warm weather would help.)
He was profoundly influenced by Renaissance art, the Neoclassicists (especially Ingres), and the Rococo school, and sought to incorporate more of their style, rather than his usual thing. It didn't entirely last; he ended up re-incorporating some of his Impressionist stylings, but the influence remained. At this point in his life, most of his work involved women in various settings and costumes.
The unidentified woman here is all fresh rosy cheeks and dewy lips, with her hair demurely up in a bun. The white outfit and red ruff makes me wonder if she's meant to be a clown or commedia dell'arte character. She's got the formal posing of a Neoclassical painting, but the colors and warm lighting, and some of the blurred lines, of Renoir's best Impressionist work.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #PierreAugusteRenoir #Impressionism #Neoclassicism #WomenInArt #PortraitMonday
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"Woman and Flowers," Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866.
I've featured Alma-Tadema before, so I won't bother much with biography.
He was a huge fan of Classical Greek art and stylings, and included them a lot in his artwork, even when depicting contemporary scenes.
Here we have an obviously Victorian scene, with a sofa and all that but the table, and the woman's hair and clothing, all echo Classical Greece. It's quite a mingling of themes that works quite well. Also a rather sensual painting, in showing her obvious joy in smelling the flowers.
Happy Flower Friday!
#Art #LawrenceAlmaTadema #Neoclassicism #VictorianArt #FlowerFriday
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Sully's portraits of Jean and Mary Sicard David brilliantly showcase neoclassical elegance, contrasting military drama with pastoral serenity. What do these striking textures and expressive colors reveal about their personalities and status in society?
#ArtHistory #ClevelandArt #Sully #Neoclassicism
https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1979 -
"A Pergola, Italy," C. W. Eckersberg, 1814-16.
Dubbed "The Father of Danish Painting," Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) was a celebrated Neoclassical painter and teacher who had an enormous influence on what was later called the Danish Golden Age.
Studying under such luminaries as Jean-Louis David, he spent some time in Florence and Rome, where he painted this image. It's unusual for his Roman works, as generally they're very strictly symmetrical and done with painstaking brushstrokes; this has SOME symmetry but also has the riotous grapevine, and uses broader brushstrokes.
Looks like a cool place for a glass of wine, eh?
From the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
#Art #DanishArt #CWEckersberg #Neoclassicism #Pergola #Italy
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"Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, Reveals to Thales the Secrets of the Skies," Antonio Canova, 1798-99.
Canova (1757-1822) was better known as a Neoclassical sculptor. And I'll admit...as a painter, he's a great sculptor. But despite whatever technical deficiencies this may have, I find it a sweet and charming scene. It may have been a study for a proposed sculpture that never got off the ground.
The son of a stonemason, Canova was a busy sculptor pretty much as soon as he was old enough to pick up a chisel. By 1800 he was Europe's most celebrated sculptor, patronized by Napoleon (who was sculpted, nude, as Mars), and created a statue of George Washington for the state government of North Carolina.
And Thales? Thales of Miletus (626/623 - 528/525 BCE) was one of Greece's Seven Sages, a philosopher who pioneered explaining the world through natural philosophy rather than mythology, and the use of mathematics, science, and deductive reasoning. This painting refers to his observations of the movements of the planets, which enabled him to be the first recorded person to predict an eclipse through scientific observation.
From the Museum Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno, Italy.
#Art #ItalianArt #AntonioCanova #Urania #Astronomy #ThalesOfMiletus #NotPerfectButCharming #NeoClassicism #Muse
