#art institute of chicago

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WatercolorWednesday:

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat [Changthangi*]

India, Mughal dynasty, c.1601-25

Opaque watercolor, ink, gold on paper

37.9 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago 1919.944: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76868/portrait-of-a-ladakhi-mountain-goat

🆔 “The Changthangi [aka Changpa, Ladakh Pashmina, Kashmiri] is a breed of cashmere goat native to the high plateaus of Ladakh in northern India. It is closely associated with the nomadic Changpa people of the Changthang plateau….The intense cold of the region causes the goats to grow a thick undercoat, which is harvested to produce the fine pashmina grade of cashmere.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changtha

#IndianArt #SouthAsianArt

[lionofchaeronea]

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

[proofinggentlewoman]

The Banquet (1958) - René Magritte

[similarfruit]

"Chicago Has a Great Lake" 1966. John Massey American, born 1931

The Art Institute of Chicago

[burningvelvet]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

[allegorypaintings]

Time Unveiling Truth

Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)

Date: 1740-1745

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[pinkblanc]

Roman Opalka, Adam and Eve, wove paper etching, 1968

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)

[mythologypaintings]

Apollo and Marsyas

Artist: Hans Thoma (German, 1839–1924)

Date: 1888

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Along with Arnold Böcklin, Hans Thoma was a leading Northern European figure in the shift from Realism and history painting to art inspired by classical myths and legends. Taken from Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses, Thoma showed the satyr Marsyas challenging Apollo, the master of the lyre, to a musical contest. Although he avoided depicting the cruel outcome of the match (the satyr lost and was flayed alive by Apollo), the artist’s treatment of Apollo, whose idealized body and luminous skin set him apart from the shadowy halftones of his challenger, hints at the winner.

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Fates Gathering In the Stars Artist: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923) Date: 1887 Genre: fantasy; allegorical art; mythological painting Movement: Symbolism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 113 cm (44.5 in) high x 82.6 cm (32.5 in) wide Location: Art Institute of Chicago

[proofinggentlewoman]

The Old Guitarist (1904) - Pablo Picasso

[artandthebible]

Christ Receiving the Children

Artist: Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616–1671)

Date: 1650–1660

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

In this illustration of an episode from the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament, Jesus (reclining at center) admonishes his disciples not to prevent little children from approaching him. Sébastien Bourdon's figures wear draperies in the antique fashion, and the setting evokes both ancient Rome and the Christian Holy Land.

One of the most versatile and successful 17th-century French painters, Bourdon emulated the rigorous classical style of Nicolas Poussin. Bourdon knew Poussin's work (such as the painting on view in this gallery) from his early years in Rome. Following Poussin's compositional principles, Bourdon organized this scene as a series of parallel, stage-like registers, resulting in a calm, geometric order.

[galleryofart]

Tight-Rope Walker

Artist: Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[antronaut]

Domenico Fetti - Melancholia (c.1615)

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Peace and War

Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708–1787)

Date: 1776

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Pompeo Batoni’s grand portraits and numerous religious and historical commissions established him as the leading Roman painter of his day. He painted Peace and War on his own initiative, without a commission, attracting critical praise for the work’s graceful invention. It combines elements of Rococo softness and eroticism with the newly fashionable Neoclassical style. War, represented by the god Mars, is restrained by a personification of peace, who bears an olive branch.