#Open Book

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Andries and Annie Bonger with the Artist

Artist: Emile Bernard (French, 1868-1941)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[huariqueje]

The Book She Left Open - Jess Allen , 2023.

British , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas. , 50 x 60 cm.

[newblvotg]

[galleryofart]

The Grey Parrot

Artist: Walter Howell Deverell (English, 1827-1854

Date: c. 1852-1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

[whilereadingandwalking]

Spring is coming. We’re almost there, y’all!

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Beguiling of Merlin

Artist: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1873-1877

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

This story is taken from Arthurian Legend, which was the artist’s favourite subject. Merlin had fallen in love with Nimue (also called Nimiane, Vivian or Vivien). She profited from his infatuation by learning his skills in enchantment. Here she is shown sending Merlin into a deep sleep.

The intensity and close relationship between the two figures may be read as a reflection of the artist’s own private life. In the 1860s, Burne-Jones had become infatuated with one of his admirers, Mary Zambaco - a member of the Ionides family who were important patrons of contemporary art in 19th-century London. They remained close during the early 1870s.

The viewer is entranced by the long sinuous lines of Nimue’s figure and the hawthorn trees behind, just as they entranced Merlin and contemporaries of Burne-Jones. The writer, Oscar Wilde, described the work as being ‘full of magic’.

[leer-reading-lire]

Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

Illustrations: Mar Azabal

Translation: Concha Cardeñoso

[jungmeowz]

⋆˚࿔ Open Book 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ — P.SH SMAU

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synops; huge book nerd, and surely you're only coming to the library just to read the books and totally not for the guy...  sum; y/n is the new transfer student attending Decelis Academy, she likes to spend most of her time in the library to read, but it starts to change when she stumbles upon the library assistant Park Sunghoon, and now maybe you're not just there for the books.

pairing: Park Sunghoon x reader

genre: angst, fluff, smau! strangers2lovers! nonidol! libraryassistant!sunghoon

featuring: ot7 enhypen, oc!soojin

tw: most likely death jokes (kys, kms, etc.) terrible humor, foul language

status: ongoing!

a/n; spontaneous smau drop bc i really want to do this one... pls let me know if you want to be added to taglist <4

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profiles: booknerds -- bookworms

001: new transfer

002: birthday pencil

003: eye contact

004: hallways

005: fuck who you are!

006: bang my head

007: oh my dazed

008: when I catch you

009: quick glances

010: my heart thumped!

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Sweetest boy 🖤

[portrait-paintings]

The Artist's Wife and his Setter Dog

Artist: Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Date: c. 1884–1889

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Eakins began this portrait shortly after his marriage in January 1884 to his former student, Susan Hannah Macdowell (1851–1938), a talented painter and photographer. The setting is his studio at 1330 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, where the couple—and their dog, Harry—lived from 1884 to 1886. A photogravure of the painting from 1886 reveals a more robust woman, suggesting that Eakins reworked the portrait, amplifying the effect of the skylight’s illumination. The alterations may have reflected Eakins’s anguish over his controversial dismissal from the school of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, partly for removing the loincloth from a male model in a co-ed class.

[huariqueje]

More Research - Joan Griswold

American , b. 1954 -

Oil on canvas , 20 x 16 in.

[artandthebible]

The Penitent Magdalene

Artist: Michele Rocca (Italian, 1666-1751)

Date: Unknown

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

[galleryofart]

The Fair Student (Girl Reading)

Artist: Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906)

Date: 1858

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Smithsonian American Art, Museum, Washington, DC, United States

Description

An interior scene depicting a profile image of a young woman seated at a table, her attention directed to a large book resting on the table in front of her. She wears a historical costume featuring an off-the- shoulder dress with wide sleeves adorned with lace cuffs, a beaded necklace, and a lace cap. Hanging on the wall in the background is a painting depicting a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a white ruff around the neck.

[whilereadingandwalking]

In transit.

[koredzas]

Cosimo Rosselli (1439 - 1507) - The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints. Detail.