deadpaint: Leon Comerre, La Belle Liseuse
u-turd: Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece: God Almighty (detail)
beautifuldavinci: John Singer Sargent    Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911 Considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. An American expatriate who was trained in Paris prior to moving to London, Sargent enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, though not without controversy and some critical reservation; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his Portrait of Madame X was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but it resulted in scandal instead. From the beginning his work was characterized by remarkable technical facility, particularly in his ability to draw with a brush, which in later years inspired admiration as well as criticism for a supposed superficiality. His commissioned works were consistent with the Grand manner of portraiture, while his informal studies and landscape paintings displayed a familiarity with Impressionism. In later life Sargent expressed ambivalence about the restrictions of formal portrait work, and devoted much of his energy to mural painting and working en plein air.
suicideblonde: Ballet Rehearsal on Stage (1874) by Edgar Degas 
suicideblonde: The Lady of Shalott (1888) by John William Waterhouse

silenceart:

Annie Stegg

missfolly: Gothic Church on a Rock by the Sea, 1815, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel