Helen Frankenthalers’ work was panned by some art critics for being too “pretty” and comforting (cont’d)3wk ⋅ zzzzzzzzzra ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What are some paintings/works that feel distinctly not of their actual time to you? My favorite example is “Portrait of Bernardo de Galvez” circa 1790.3mo ⋅ bqzs ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What is an artwork that gave you a palpable physical reaction, beyond the immediate sensation of aesthetic like/dislike? One of the strongest reactions I have had was to Wayne Thiebaud's 24th Street Intersection (1977).1mo ⋅ crabnox ⋅ r/ArtHistory
The Arnolfini Portrait is considered a masterpiece but it gives me space alien/uncanny valley vibes. What do you think?2mo ⋅ truthhurts2222222 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Please help me understand what’s up with the strange boob dress in this tapestry3mo ⋅ casseroled ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Earliest knitted socks from 12th-century Egypt. Look like they could've been made yesterday.2mo ⋅ serverlessmom ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Is Diego Velasquez's painting of Pope Innocent X the greatest portrait of all time?1mo ⋅ truthhurts2222222 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
In “A Lady and Gentleman in Black”, does anybody know specifically what style of clothing this is called?1mo ⋅ freetheindividual ⋅ r/ArtHistory
See that red-triangle logo on the beer bottle in the bottom right corner?6mo ⋅ ArpanMondal270 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What are some examples of paintings with frames that don't merely contain the image but are integral to the work? This is Dali's A Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen). I'm interested in artists who somehow go beyond the canvas.3wk ⋅ crabnox ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What's your favorite neoclassical painting? I like Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis 1mo ⋅ truthhurts2222222 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
I've been loving the Twitter chains of people talking about art that moved them, wanted to share.4mo ⋅ yokayla ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Have you ever experienced the Stendhal Syndrome (quote/description in first comment below)? Which work/place and what was the context? It has happened to me at the Mezquita-Catedral of Cordoba.5d ⋅ appiaantica ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Picasso with a portrait of Stalin he was commissioned to draw at the last moment after Stalin’s death2wk ⋅ zzzzzzzzzra ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Hugo Simberg - ( The Garden of Death ) I really love this painting it's such a peaceful depiction of death.1yr ⋅ Jaybird199300000 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Saw this today on IG! How accurate is it and what are your thoughts about it? 2wk ⋅ mmahomm ⋅ r/ArtHistory
'Before the Audience' by Jean-Leon Gerome. What is the object they're standing around? Who are these people?8mo ⋅ Wvelp ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Does this still frame from Saltburn remind you of a particular work of art?3mo ⋅ Mediocre_Pop_1960 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
I came across this wonderfully strange painting by Dosso Dossi, c.1524. What other paintings contain paintings within them?2mo ⋅ Bright-Cup1234 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
The Real-Life Locations of the World's Most Famous Paintings 🎨 Vincent van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night (Arles, France) [Discussion]1yr ⋅ ThePuzzlingTimes ⋅ r/ArtHistory
That time in a 1933 article when Frida Kahlo was referred to as someone’s wife and her art was “Gleeful Dabbling”.1yr ⋅ dannydutch1 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What technique did Holbein use to configure the skull this way? If I wanted to do the same would I be able to just stretch out an image?1mo ⋅ 93bk93 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
A photo taken by me of the paintings Saturn devouring his son by Rubens (left) and Goya (right). These paintings have never been together before.4yr ⋅ hmolinasanz ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Studying David of Michelangelo and boy can you really see the difference between the Original and a David copy from Minneapolis. Anyway just wanted to mention this since I don't know who else to talk to about this.1yr ⋅ WhatshallIsayHmM ⋅ r/ArtHistory
why was the odalisque so popular with French artists between the 19th and 20th century? most of them are also in that same sort of reclining position. Matisse, Leon-Francois Comerre, and Henri Adrien Tanoux come to mind2wk ⋅ yearningdreamtigers ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Handed down in family, but which relative lost to time. Help. What year is subject? Thinking dress design gives it away.3mo ⋅ JoeBobBigD ⋅ r/ArtHistory
I recently had someone explain to me that “The Fallen Angel” by Alexandre Cabanel actually copied some features from painting within the Sistine Chapel. When trying to research this I couldn’t find any evidence supporting it. Is this actually true?2wk ⋅ DeadBattery98 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Why does the woman on the left have a cloth on her head? What is it called? What is its purpose?1yr ⋅ DarkDarkPeach ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Anyone else find Odilon Redon strangely intriguing? He’s considered a symbolist but a lot of his works from the 19th century feels Porto-Surrealist to me. This mythological painting (The Cyclops) always felt like a bizarre fever dream.2yr ⋅ zzzzzzzzzra ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Paintings that depict the etchings and graphic works of other artists (e.g. Manet's Portrait of Emile Zola.2mo ⋅ FreeFactor ⋅ r/ArtHistory
That's a 3800-year-old Egyptian queen diadem, the centerpiece looks like a cross and is similar to centerpieces of many modern crowns is this a coincidence?1yr ⋅ manbel13 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What method would have been used to create something like The Minerva Bowl in the 1st Century?2mo ⋅ TSeledon ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Why are they not protecting some of the ancient statues in Louvre so people won’t touch them?2yr ⋅ Avacado-panda ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Let me try this again with the actual painting supposedly done by Matisse. Is the chat avec poissons rouges actually a Matisse work? I can’t find reputable academic sources/websites.. only blogs.3mo ⋅ Emotional_Sound_5658 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Yesterday I got my first tattoo and decided to signature myself with R.Mutt 19172yr ⋅ NoodieR ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Left: Caravaggio (1598), Right: Woman Painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1612)3yr ⋅ Calendar_Shot ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Did you know Dali illegally transported Gala's dead body to her castle in Spain, by himself? In his car? 80km path?1yr ⋅ TurboNessa ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Les Nubians by Barrias, an example of Orientalist art housed in Musee D'Orsay1yr ⋅ hhyyerr ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Ten years after its release, art historian Gergely Barki was watching Stuart Little (1999) on TV and noticed Hungarian avant-garde artist Robert Bereny's painting (pictured), a lost painting last seen 1928. Barki had only seen B&W photos of the painting, and it later sold at auction for $285,714.1yr ⋅ OmicronGR ⋅ r/ArtHistory
I don’t know if this is controversial but I think Saturn Devouring His Son is the greatest painting of all time3yr ⋅ RichardNixoN1122 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
In Jean-Honore Fragonard's Rococo painting The Swing (c. 1767) what is he doing with the light? For all of the smiles, it makes me think of being under stormy waters billowing in.1yr ⋅ pakled_guy ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Finnish Museum to acknowledge Ilya Repin, long considered to be Russian, as Ukrainian painter.2mo ⋅ El_Robski ⋅ r/ArtHistory
This is one of my favorite visual jokes, but I feel like there’s a pretty narrow cross section of people who get it.1yr ⋅ elevencharles ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Recognize this woman? She appears in the second most famous painting in Paris, after the Mona Lisa.5mo ⋅ ArpanMondal270 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Mid-century firecracker labels are a goldmine for charming and bizarre art8mo ⋅ Le_Rat_Mort ⋅ r/ArtHistory
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, by Masaccio, before and after restoration. The fresco was painted in 1425. In 1680, Cosimo III de' Medici ordered that fig leaves be added to protect the modesty of Adam and Eve. These were removed in the 1980s when the painting was fully restored and cleaned1yr ⋅ Le_Rat_Mort ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Anybody else been adding an art historical flair to their dall e minis?1yr ⋅ AshamedWalru ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Does anyone know what note the boy is playing in Manet’s painting The Fifer (1866)? I tried to figure it out with my flute but all it made was a weird high C.1mo ⋅ StarryLocket ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Justo Gallego, the man who builded a whole cathedral by himself, has passed away today at the age of 962yr ⋅ hmolinasanz ⋅ r/ArtHistory
The Prison Courtyard (1890) by van Gogh has gone under my radar for a long time, but now became an instant favourite of mine4yr ⋅ badniff ⋅ r/ArtHistory
As an art history graduate, it was a delight to design this series of pins for the National Gallery of Ireland! Based on works by James Barry, Harry Clarke, James Joyce & W.B. Yeats.1yr ⋅ fireanhemlock ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, by Jean Fouquet. Tempera on panel (93 x 85 cm), dated c. 1450.1yr ⋅ Reasonable-Newt-8102 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh, in the only known photo of him, at 19.3yr ⋅ monis6344 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
The map of the most famous art works in Europe (I'm the author of this map)2yr ⋅ davidbokeh ⋅ r/ArtHistory
All I have done before the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. - Katsushika Hokusai. 🎨 What is your favourite quote from an artist? [Discussion]1yr ⋅ ThePuzzlingTimes ⋅ r/ArtHistory
William Utermohlen’s Self Portraits Drawn After His Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease in 1995 — Provides a Unique Insight into The Self Perception of Those Suffering From Alzheimer’s.3yr ⋅ Nepenthes_Rowaniae ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Original versus Reproduction: which work was drastically different when you saw it in-person compared to what you expected from reproductions? Left: Wikipedia, Center: photo I took at Orsay, Right: detail I took.1wk ⋅ appiaantica ⋅ r/ArtHistory
UnDiscovered Stereoscopic Works by Salvador Dali. Cross eyes to overlap nose, lips ... Look at the Star1yr ⋅ AtreidesLeo ⋅ r/ArtHistory
University of Iowa has been exhibiting a Pollock incorrectly for 52 years.3yr ⋅ ColdWarConcrete ⋅ r/ArtHistory
One and three Bernies - Has anyone seen other Bernie art history memes today?3yr ⋅ LobsterPlayground ⋅ r/ArtHistory
After months of research, I created this podcast series about Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks & Treatise On Painting. Would love to hear your thoughts! (Link included below.)1yr ⋅ mjdorian ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast at the Met Museum - worth a visit if you’re in NYC (ends on the 5th of March)1yr ⋅ mimo_ohno ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa -- the centerpiece of the aedicule in Rome's Santa Maria della Vittoria.3yr ⋅ blueneuronDOTnet ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1973, graphite on paper. The artist features prominently at the current exhibition The Iconic Gay Image in Barcelona3yr ⋅ al0678 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of the Damned. This is the painting Baran Bo Odar chose to put in Dark (Netflix) I do wonder why he did that4yr ⋅ PunjabDa ⋅ r/ArtHistory
How were classic paintings commissioned ? I can’t imagine how this would be commissioned.2yr ⋅ kennedycamel ⋅ r/ArtHistory
This is part of Fragonard’s Progress of Love, The Meeting. What is the sculpture in the middle based on?1yr ⋅ artenthusiast24 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
The Swamp (1900)- Gustav Klimt. I found this painting quite beautiful. First question I have is what was the median that Klimt used and my second question is where was this place that he captured so beautifully. On a side note what are others great works by Klimt3yr ⋅ foresthorner101 ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Is The Ponte Salario a landscape or a genre-painting? More details below.3mo ⋅ TerriblyGentlemanly ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What era is this clothing style from? I know that the painting is from about 1625. Was this clothing typical for people from Rome during the 17th century?1yr ⋅ sassystar ⋅ r/ArtHistory
A letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin (October 1888) — a sweet exchange before the unfortunate demise of their friendship.2yr ⋅ studylatin ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Treaty of Paris by Benjamin West depicts the American delegation at the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The British delegation refused to pose, and the painting was never completed.2yr ⋅ extravagazelle ⋅ r/ArtHistory
What does this illustration reference or mean? Birth from the Calf of the Leg by Aubrey Beardsley 1896 (unpublished illustration intended for Lucian's True History). Im fascinated by it but can't find anywhere that mentions what's actually happening here1yr ⋅ goth_neopets ⋅ r/ArtHistory
An interesting North Korean painting from 2001 called 'Women are Strong' depicting a woman winning an arm wrestle with a group of construction workers, showing an interesting insight into women representations in North Korea (original source: Koryo Studio)5mo ⋅ zoediscovers ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Symbolism in Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Jean-Jacques-Francois 1789.1yr ⋅ chugopunk ⋅ r/ArtHistory
read the novel: Girl With a Pearl Earring the other day- really loved it and wondered if there were any similar novels of famous art and its history anyone would recommend.1yr ⋅ OmegaGX_ ⋅ r/ArtHistory
Looking for two more paintings to hang next to Vase of Flowers by Jan Davidsz de Heem on my wall3yr ⋅ The_Fairy_Feller ⋅ r/ArtHistory
So, I made a chronological map of Chinese landscape painting. It was intended for personal use, but I figured maybe it can help someone studying the same stuff.4yr ⋅ achilles_m ⋅ r/ArtHistory
