#fine art lamps

[iamthelandscape]

Chicago Home Office Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional freestanding desk dark wood floor study room remodel with a stone fireplace, brown walls and a standard fireplace

[mrkng]

Atlanta Bathroom Design ideas for a sizable, traditional bathroom remodel with a stone tile floor, flat-panel cabinets, purple cabinets, blue walls, an undermount sink, and marble countertops.

[violetdiary]

Houston Living Room

Picture of a medium-sized, elegant, enclosed living room with travertine flooring and beige walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace, and no television.

[catiaadao]

Tile Miami Large exterior shot of a two-story, tuscan-beige stucco house with a hip roof and a tile roof.

[ura-okitu]

Living Room - Enclosed

Picture of a medium-sized, elegant, enclosed living room with travertine flooring and beige walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace, and no television.

[vigilantedelmaule]

Tampa Stucco Large transitional white two-story stucco house exterior photo with a hip roof and a tile roof

[thedreamsareripped]

Library - Traditional Living Room Mid-sized traditional enclosed living room library design with gray walls, a regular fireplace, a stone fireplace, and no television.

[daisywarriors]

Atlanta Library Enclosed Example of a mid-sized transitional enclosed dark wood floor family room library design with beige walls and a media wall

[blizzard-bells]

New York Dining Room Enclosed An illustration of a mid-sized transitional enclosed dining room with a medium tone wood floor, beige walls, and no fireplace

[janasojka]

blue night

[sir20]

Street lights by sir20

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) "Light"

[galleryofart]

Women of Paris: The Circus Lover

Artist: James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836–1902)

Date: 1885

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Description

Like the Impressionists, particularly his friend Edgar Degas, Tissot chose his subjects from modern urban life. His precise, detailed, and anecdotal style, however, was more closely related to conservative academic painting. This work belongs to a series called La Femme à Paris (Women of Paris), eighteen large paintings that depict women of different social classes encountered as if by chance at various occupations and amusements. Here, the woman engages the viewer as a participant in the action by her direct glance out of the picture. The event is a "high-life circus," in which the amateur performers were members of the aristocracy.

[portrait-paintings]

Marcelle Aron (Madame Tristan Bernard)

Artist: Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Date: 1914

Medium: Distemper on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

[artemlegere]

The Lady of Shalott

Artist: William Holman Hunt (English, 1827-1910)

Date: c. 1888–1905

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, United States

Description

The Lady of Shalott is an oil painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, made c. 1888–1905, and depicting a scene from Tennyson’s 1833 poem, “The Lady of Shalott”. The painting is held by the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut. A smaller version is held by the Manchester Art Gallery.

“She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look’d down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack’d from side to side; ‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried The Lady of Shalott.”

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott (1842)

The painting by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) has a complicated and elaborate symbolism. The Lady of Shalott is herself an artist and may reflect Hunt’s own aesthetic on the consequences of turning away from duty and yielding to the temptations of the world rather than being removed from its material realities.

The lady’s magnificent hair, blown by a stormy wind, frightens away the doves of peace that had settled next to her as she worked, the weaving ruined, as is her own life. The silver lamp on the right has owls decorating the top and sphinxes at the bottom to suggest wisdom triumphing over mystery, its light extinguished now that the she has succumbed to temptation. Hercules, who is portrayed to the right of the mirror is given a halo to signify him as a type of Christ, his victory over the serpent guarding the apples in the garden of the Hesperides the pagan counterpart to Christ’s victory over sin. To the left of the mirror, the Virgin Mary prays over the Christ child, her humility and the valor of Hercules both exemplars of duty and foils to the Lady of Shalott, who personifies its dereliction, as signified by her wild hair and unraveling yarn.

[mythologypaintings]

Possibly Cupid Preparing Venus for an Amorous Encounter with Mars

Artist: Antonio Zucchi, RA (Italian, 1726-1796)

Date: c. 1773

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

Classical scene two women, Venus and a maidservant holding a suit of armour, and with Cupid undoing Venus's buskin. Mars, who is not to be seen has already taken off his slippers and armour, and Venus is pointing to the bed.