segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2015

quarta-feira, 17 de dezembro de 2014

terça-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2014

Random Frescoes

 Giulio Quaglio the Younger's fresco in Cathedral of Saint Nicholas  Ljubljana, Slovenia.
 
Paul Troger's Altenburg fresco.

Paul Troger's Melk Abbey fresco.

Random frescoes

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Andrea Pozzo's 'Apoteose de Santo Inacio'.

Painted ceiling by Christoph Thomas Scheffler in St. Paulinus' Church, Trier, Germany

segunda-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2014

Random frescoes

More masterpieces that I like.

Ceiling frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte in Wilhering Abbey monastery in Austria.

Frescoes by Luca Giordano painted in 1692 in Real Monasterio de El Escoral, Madrid, Spain.

sexta-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2014

Random frescoes

Just some of my favorite ones.

 Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio) Triumph of the Sacred Name of Jesus (1674-1679).

Freska Caserta Royal Palace.

sexta-feira, 12 de setembro de 2014

Best Paintings of all time

I can't just don't add 'Las Meninas' by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) in such a list. This is the famous and curious case of a painting of a painter painting a painting, which is the artist himself that is pictured painting a painting that nobody could tell for sure about what it is. Confused? Las Meninas or the 'Maid of Honour' has been labeled as the 'Theology of Painting' because of the complex interplay between perspective and illusion. Spanish identity, royal succession, family history. What is Velazquez painting? A question that continues to perplex the art world.

Also the fact that who his self-portrait is most likely painting in the painting (the royal couple) is so barely noticeable, and the fact that he apparently is looking straight at us, gives this sensation that we are the subject of his painting. In resume, it has so many levels, that you can never fully grasp it, for the changing of meaning seems to never end. I bet that surrealist Magritte loved this one.