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Moonlit Scene, Houses at Night, Léon Bonvin, 1864
#art#art history#Léon Bonvin#night#night scene#nyctophilia#landscape#landscape painting#landscape art#France#French art#19th century art#watercolor#watercolor on paper#Walters Art Museum
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Hackerman House, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
photo: David Castenson
#greek revival#architecture#black and white photography#photographers on tumblr#walters art museum#baltimore
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Happy #WorldAnteaterDay!
From House of Fabergé menagerie, here is a diamond-eyed jasper anteater figure purchased by The Walters Art Museum founder Henry Walters on a trip to St. Petersburg in 1900. Now in the museum’s permanent collection.
Anteater
House of Fabergé (Russian, est. 1842) (Manufacturer)
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920)
c. 1900
jasper, diamonds
The Walters Art Museum
"This tiny diamond-eyed anteater was purchased by Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, on a trip to St. Petersburg in 1900. The House of Fabergé began making hardstone animals in the 1890s and they proved popular with their elite clients. Queen Alexandra (wife of the British King Edward VIl) built a large collection, and production peaked in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Objects such as this anteater were inspired by Japanese netsuke. Carl Fabergé owned over 500 of these. He married this admiration of Asian art with the rich Russian tradition of hardstone carving. The anteater is unusual among Fabergé's menagerie, although examples in bloodstone and quartz are also known.”
#animals in art#animal holiday#european art#20th century art#19th century art#anteater#World Anteater Day#sculpture#figure#figurine#jasper#precious stones#gemstones#Faberge#Russian art#Walters Art Museum
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Thomas Couture (1815-1879) "Daydreams" (1859) Oil on canvas Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
#paintings#art#artwork#genre painting#portrait#thomas couture#oil on canvas#fine art#walters art museum#museum#art gallery#french artist#portrait of a child#clothing#clothes#brown#blue#bubble#bubbles#laurel wreath#daydreams#daydreaming#side profile#books#glass#mirror#1850s#mid 1800s#mid 19th century
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Pandora (1873), (detail), by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889), oil on canvas, 70.2 × 49.2 cm, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
#pandora#alexandre cabanel#painting#detail#painting detail#oil on canvas#christina nilsson#pandora’s box#walters art museum#baltimore#mythology#greek mythology#roman mythology#mythological painting#mythological art#academicism#my upload#art#fine art
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Napoleon’s mother had a watch made for her as she lost her eyesight that was designed for her to tell the time by touch instead of reading numbers.
According to the Walters Art Museum:
This unusual watch has no numbers, it belongs to a type called "montres à tact" or discrete watches. The clever design allows the time to be told by touch alone, feeling the four diamonds on the hour and the quarters, and the pearls that mark the remaining divisions of the twelve hours. The raised arrow, also in diamonds, contrasts with the smooth surrounding enamel, taking the place of watch hands. It was made for Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Napoleon’s mother, who lost her sight as she aged.
The case employs a process called guilloché, where subtle but kaleidoscopic effects are created through mechanical means. Geometric shapes are carved into metal by engine turning. The resulting patterns of fine lines are covered with transparent enamel, when light hits them it creates oscillating optic effects.
Pierre Benjamin Tavernier (Jeweler), Basile Charles Le Roy (Clockmaker), Early 1800s
#letizia Bonaparte#letizia#napoleonic era#napoleonic#watch#jewelry#jewellery#pretty#accessories#history#19th century#Walters art museum#french empire#first french empire#empire style#empire#france#Italy#fashion history#1800s
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Chinese snuff bottle
#art#qing dynasty#the Walters#the Walter’s art museum#art museum#Chinese art#artifacts#Chinese#Chinese artifacts#walters art museum
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A panel from a 21st Dynasty “yellow coffin” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Love the twin crocodile goddesses at lower left. I guess the twin bearded, snake-headed gods are both Osiris?
[A yellow coffin with various underworld figures painted in green and red, including the deceased flanked by a human goddess and a vulture-headed goddess, two enthroned, snake-headed gods, and two crocodile-headed goddesses standing back to back.]
#Ancient Egypt#Third Intermediate Period#21st Dynasty#Osiris#yellow coffin#coffin#Walters Art Museum
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de Flers, Robert. Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli. Illus. Alphonse Mucha, limited ed. Paris: Léon Gruel, 1897. source: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA (not on view)
#books#alphonse mucha#rare books#princesse de tripoli#walters art museum#ilsee princesse de tripoli#leatherbound#leatherbound books#gilt#gilded
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Sardonyx cameo by an unknown Byzantine artist of the 14th century, depicting St. Theodore Stratelates ("Army Commander"). Theodore (281-319) was a Roman soldier, said to have been martyred during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Licinius. Here, Theodore is shown in full military dress, a spear in his right hand and a round shield on his left shoulder. The accompanying inscription invokes him and his namesake, Theodore "the Recruit," as protectors; the cameo would likely have been suspended from a chain and wore around the neck as a protective amulet.
Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
#art#art history#Byzantine#Byzantine Empire#Byzantine art#Byzantium#medieval#medieval art#Middle Ages#Eastern Orthodox#Orthodox Christianity#jewelry#jewellery#cameo#sardonyx#Walters Art Museum
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Hackerman House, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
photo: David Castenson
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Happy #NationalLlamaDay 🦙!
Llama Effigy
Chancay (Peru, Central Coast), Late Intermediate Period, 1000-1470
earthenware, slip paint; H: 8 5/16 x W: 15 7/8 x D: 6 5/16 in. (21.11 x 40.39 x 16 cm)
The Walters Art Museum 2009.20.49
“The llama, a native camelid of the Americas, touched all aspects of Andean life. The llama- the only native American beast of burden-was used primarily to transport goods from the coastal deserts to the highest mountain plains. Well adapted to the extremes of the Andean environment, including climate, terrain, and altitude, the llama was at the heart of every Andean home. The llama and its camelid cousins (alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña) provided the all-important hairs that were spun into fibers to weave warm garments of considerable strength and durability. Such clothing was crucial for survival during cold Andean nights and in the altiplano highlands. Llamas also provided body heat for shepherds and other laborers who could not return to a warm home every night. Llama blood was an important ritual offering, and its meat was occasionally consumed for protein, although the high value of the living animal made these latter uses infrequent and of special significance.
During the Late Intermediate Period, the Chancay Valley and adjacent Chillón Drainage developed an energetic corporate style of architecture and art. Large amounts of ceramics were produced and distributed among the ruling elite as well as those of lesser status. Among these are the distinctive mold-made and hand-modeled sculptures of humans (both men and women) and animals.”
#animals in art#animal holiday#llama#camelid#livestock#domesticated animals#Peruvian art#South American art#Chancay art#Indigenous art#ceramics#pottery#earthenware#Walters Art Museum#National Llama Day#black and white#spots#effigy vessel#animal effigy
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Domenico Corvi (1721-1803) "Allegory of Painting" (1764) Oil on canvas Neoclassical Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
#paintings#art#artwork#allegorical painting#female portrait#domenico corvi#oil on canvas#fine art#neoclassical#neoclassicism#walters art museum#museum#art gallery#italian artist#portrait of a woman#cupid#putto#side profile#pretty#aesthetic#aesthetics#1700s#18th century
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Took a trip into Baltimore with my friend Ali and Vincent to see some art and have an adventure (not pictured the Bmore Licks ice cream I got was so delicious, it was vanilla apple pie)
#personal#personal post#momblr#mumblr#myphotos#maryland#baltimore#walters art museum#mount vernon#Baltimore city
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Zoomorph Effigy.
Ecuador. Chorrera Culture. 13th Century BCE. Made from stone.
Now housed in the Walters Art Museum.
#walters art museum#museum#archeology#south american history#precolumbian#ancient history#art#culture#chorrera#ecuador#animals in art#stone
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