Art Detectives

Top of the Day: Theymoclea Throwing the Captain of Alexander the Great into the Well - Elisabetta Strani , 1659 Today's Artwork: Estació de França - Joan Colom Agustí , 1911 -- link -- Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant - Egon Schiele , 1912 -- link -- Old couple plucking gulls. Lars Gaihede and old Lene - Anna Ancher , 1883 -- link -- The Count's Court Jester - David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl , 1651 -- link -- Theymoclea Throwing the Captain of Alexander the Great into the Well - Elisabetta Strani , 1659 -- link -- Vocation of the Holy Apostles Peter and Andrew - Abadia Workshop , 1475/1499 -- link -- The Bridge at Le Pecq - André Derain (French, b.1880, d.1954) , 1904-1905 -- link -- Artist and Model - Liu Kang , 1954 -- link -- A Confraternity in Procession along the Calle Génova, Seville - Alfred Dehodencq , 1851 -- link -- Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent - WC Piguenit , 1875 -- link -- Interior (Sisters) - Fritz v

Top of the Day: Tamara - Jill Higginson , 2020 Today's Artwork: Canale dei Agni Santi, Campo San Sebastiano, Venice - Andrew Fisher Bunner -- link -- Dress - André Courrèges -- link -- View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer - Jan van Goyen , 1646 -- link -- Tamara - Jill Higginson , 2020 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: The South Ledges, Appledore - Childe Hassam , 1913 Today's Artwork: Portrait Katharina von Bora - Lucas Cranach , 1529 -- link -- The South Ledges, Appledore - Childe Hassam , 1913 -- link -- Canvassing for a Vote - George Caleb Bingham , 1852 -- link -- Revolution - Edward Dwurnik , 1996 -- link -- The Battle of Lepanto - Andrea Michieli detto Vicentino , 1595 - 1605 -- link -- Studio portrait, Chelsea - Norah Simpson , 1915 -- link -- The Saint-Lazare Station - Claude Monet , 1877 -- link -- Pastoral Landscape - Claude Gellée (called Le Lorrain) , 1638 -- link -- A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast - Claude-Joseph Vernet , 1767 -- link -- Bottom of the Ravine - Paul Cézanne , c. 1879 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Musicians in the Orchestra (Portrait of Desire Dihau) - Edgar Degas Today's Artwork: Azulejos de residência na Gávea, Rio de Janeiro - Athos Bulcão , 1980 -- link -- The Crown of Flowers - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , c. 1865-1870 -- link -- Musicians in the Orchestra (Portrait of Desire Dihau) - Edgar Degas -- link -- Virtue and Nobility putting Ignorance to Flight - Tiepolo, Giambattista , c.1743 -- link -- Lady of Squire Williams House - Erastus Salisbury Field, born Leverett, MA 1805-died Plumtrees, MA 1900 , ca. 1829 -- link -- A Bolero Dancer - Antonio Cabral Bejarano , 1842 -- link -- Portrait of a Gentleman - Titian [Tiziano Vecellio] , 1561 -- link -- Muse on Pegasus - Odilon Redon , 1907/1910 -- link -- First News of the Battle of Lexington - William Tylee Ranney , 1847 -- link -- ​Today we took a look at: Remedios Varo - 112 artworks - painting (wikiart.org) .  Her art is very "out there", but fascinating.  Then we swi

Today we explored the work of haute couture milliner (hat designer) Philip Treacy  He designed many of the grand hat that Isabella Blow, whose wonderful rich outfits we looked at last Thursday, wore. Katje asked if we could peruse his work & peruse we did! Philip Treacy working on a hat as Grace Jones patiently waits for the finish Philip Treacy's website -- link --  Philip Treacy Instagram with lots of his designs -- link --  Royal family hats -- link --  Met Museum Treacy Butterflies -- link --  Auction of a Treacy butterfly headdress -- link --  Butterfly headpieces -- link --  Luba spotted this unique design as we were looking through Philip's work. This butterfly hat looks like they're flying off the hat -- link --  Grace Jones & Philip Treacy (one of two hats is the main photo for the page today) -- link --  A plethora of really wild hats by Philip Treacy for late avant garde designer Alexander McQueen -- link --