Favourite Paintings - an intimate Historum gallery - Page 24 - Historum

corrocamino · December 23rd, 2010, 08:09 AM

Among historical paintings, I find this one "romantic" and evocative: "Death of Gordon".

But I can't resist also posting "White Buffalo", a masterpiece in stained glass by the Powers Brothers... Can't seem to fetch the picture, so please follow link:

http://www.powersstainedglass.com/pk...ew_product=200

Tuor · December 23rd, 2010, 01:49 PM

I've always enjoyed Henri Felix Philippoteaux's painting of the French Cuirassiers attacking the British squares at Waterloo.

HadleyH · December 27th, 2010, 01:23 PM

Love this

Sir Frederic William Burton ( 1816 – 1900) "The Meeting on Turret Stairs" 1864

Psellos · December 27th, 2010, 01:58 PM

Greek wedding in Athens by Luis Dupre

A Greek kid defends his wounded father by Ary Schiffer

**Anna James** · December 27th, 2010, 03:13 PM

Pre-Raphaelite Watercolor by Ricciardo Meacci

Ricciardo Meacci was one of the rare Pre-Raphaelites, as he was not English, but Italian. He worked exclusively in watercolor, redefining DETAIL and presence in his works.

He was born near Chiusi. After attending the Academy of Fine Art in Siena between 1871 and 1880, he moved to Florence where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He specialized in small and extremely highly worked allegorical watercolors and tempera paintings. Meacci’s work, like that of the English painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, who moved to Florence in the same year, has a strongly historicist flavor, revealing the influence of the English Pre-Raphaelite artists and their circle, particularly Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

Meacci seems to have found his principal clients among the aristocratic expatriate English community living in and around Florence. His watercolors, alway

**Star** · January 7th, 2011, 08:06 AM

Portrait of Ginevra de Benci (Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474).
Oil on panel, National Gallery , London. "Beauty Adorns Virtue" (inscribed on the reverse) represents
an early example of the pivotal change in portrait style from quattrocentro profiles to later three-
quarter views (in commemmorative and nuptial portraits). I love this painting because it preserves the
formality necessary in such portraits while giving us a glimpse of her seriousness and piety
for which she was well known.