Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait of a Woman (Detail), 1696
Andrew Shannon walked into the National Gallery Ireland in 2012 and punched a hole through Monet’s ‘Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat’, valued at roughly £8 million. Although he tried to play it off as an accident, security footage proved otherwise, and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. If you would like to know how it feels to punch a Monet, you can do so here.
Katharina Gaenssler’s book of photographs commemorating the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna (2012).
Irises in Monet’s Garden by Claude Monet (1900) #impressionism #art https://t.co/YahNtmHPzj http://ift.tt/2gXK3I2
Bato Dugarzhapov (b.1966, Russia)
Tver Region, Russia,
oil on canvas, 60x70cm
i understand why van gogh cut off his ear and shot himself in the middle of an open field like i get it now
Francisco Ignacio Ruiz de la Iglesia - Maria de Guadalupe of Lencastre, 6th Duchess of Aveiro (c. 1700). Detail.